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the money game
Sept. 21, 2021
Why Trouble at a Chinese Real-Estate Company Led to a U.S. Stock Market Plunge Wall Street seems to be wrapping its head around just how fast things are changing in Xi’s China. Evergrande’s woes are emblematic of those changes.
By Kevin T. Dugan
What Is China Doing to the Uighurs in Xinjiang? Beijing claims it’s merely fighting extremism. But it’s been accused of committing atrocities against the Muslim minority group, including genocide.
By Jonah Shepp
lab-leak hypothesis
Aug. 27, 2021
U.S. Intelligence Review Inconclusive on COVID Origins The country’s spy agencies say they need more information to be able to say for sure where the virus came from.
By Chas Danner
who’s buying
Aug. 27, 2021
The Chinese Buyers Who Were Scooping Up New York Real Estate Have Vanished Anti-maskers and anti-Asian hate attacks are among the reasons keeping the top group of international home buyers away.
By Rong Xiaoqing
Liberalism and Socialism Are Both in Crisis The past decade of global warming and right-wing advance poses an existential threat to various visions of human progress.
By Eric Levitz
late capitalism
Aug. 6, 2021
China’s Sweeping Crackdown on Big Tech Is a Wake-Up Call for the U.S. The U.S. and China face similar economic problems. The latter is taking an increasingly anti-capitalist approach to solving them.
By Eric Levitz
Chinese Canadian Pop Star Kris Wu Detained on Suspicion of Rape Accusations of sexual misconduct from more than 24 of Wu’s alleged victims have sparked a major Me Too moment in the Chinese entertainment industry.
By Rebecca Alter
foreign interests
June 14, 2021
Can Biden Make America Lead the Free World Again? His Europe trip is meant to reassure allies that the U.S. is back in the business of global leadership, but long-term credibility will be a hard sell.
By Jonah Shepp
The Implications of the Lab-Leak Hypothesis The epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch explains the risks of the virus research done at the Wuhan Institute.
By David Wallace-Wells
China Reports First Human Case of H10N3 Bird Flu The chances of this avian strain of the flu spreading far and wide seem very low, officials said.
By Paola Rosa-Aquino
A Visit to the Soon-to-Open Museum of American Restaurant China It’s upstairs at Fishs Eddy on 19th Street and Broadway in the private sanctum of proprietor Julie Gaines.
By Wendy Goodman
international affairs
May 31, 2021
China Will Allow Married Couples to Have 3 Children The country is facing a significant demographic crisis, but most experts are skeptical that boosting the child limit again will reverse the trend.
By Chas Danner
Biden Joins the COVID Lab-Leak-Theory Debate The president says that U.S. intelligence is considering the theory and he wants them to push harder to answer where the coronavirus originated.
By Chas Danner
the national interest
May 24, 2021
By Jonathan Chait
foreign interests
May 9, 2021
The U.S. Is Playing Catch-Up at Vaccine Diplomacy America can still make a major difference in the efforts to get COVID-19 vaccines into arms globally, but Russia and China have a big head start.
By Jonah Shepp
death from above
May 9, 2021
Congratulations, You Weren’t Crushed by Space Debris Today That enormous Chinese space rocket has finished its uncontrolled fall back to earth.
By Chas Danner
Biden’s Workmanlike Love Song to the Middle Class His speech was well crafted to sell his priorities to voters in and just beyond the Democratic Party.
By Ed Kilgore
China Based Its Xinjiang Agitprop Musical on La La Land The Wings of Songs is set in an idyllic version of Xinjiang, scrubbed of any Islamic signifiers.
By Rebecca Alter
foreign policy
Mar. 30, 2021
Secretary Swell on a Pissed-Off Planet Groomed on Park Avenue and in the 16th Arrondissement, Secretary of State Antony Blinken confronts a world that just might be post-diplomacy.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
foreign policy
Mar. 18, 2021
The First U.S. Meeting With China Under Biden Didn’t Go So Smoothly Chinese diplomats accused the U.S. government of “slaughtering” Black Americans. U.S. officials said their counterparts were “grandstanding.”
By Matt Stieb
How the West Lost COVID How did so many rich countries get it so wrong? How did others get it so right?
By David Wallace-Wells
build back better
Mar. 10, 2021
Why Biden’s Next Bill May Be a ‘China Package’ Fear of China’s economic strength has spurred bipartisan support for public investment in U.S. manufacturing.
By Eric Levitz
global politics
Feb. 9, 2021
Only the Left Can Save Globalization Now To restore shared prosperity and avert a new cold war, progressives must disavow protectionism and make globalism great again.
By Eric Levitz
Where in the World Is Jack Ma? One of China’s richest men hasn’t been seen or heard from since he criticized Beijing in a speech two months ago.
By Eve Peyser
sex scandals
Dec. 9, 2020
The China Sex Spy Scandal Is a Reminder: Don’t Govern While Horny A Chinese spy got to know some prominent American politicians — including former presidential candidate Eric Swalwell.
By Eve Peyser
Hong Kong’s Pro-Democracy Lawmakers Resign En Masse Over Chinese Takeover The resignation of an entire pro-democracy bloc occurred hours after Beijing passed a law allowing the ouster of any legislator who expressed dissent.
By Matt Stieb
China Is Now the Amazon of Geopolitics Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss how the patient zero of the pandemic has emerged in a stronger economic position than ever.
By Intelligencer Staff
Trump Administration to Ban WeChat and TikTok From App Stores But TikTok will still be available to use for at least a few weeks, and probably beyond.
By Benjamin Hart
the top line
Sept. 14, 2020
We’re Heading Toward the Worst Possible Outcome on TikTok It’s likely that the deal will enrich the Trump-allied firm Oracle without the upside of reduced Chinese influence that we were supposed to get.
By Josh Barro
republican national convention
Aug. 25, 2020
Republicans Promised a Convention, But Delivered Crazy Talk On the first night of the RNC, speakers worshipped Trump but rarely mentioned their party, and many went over the brink with wild anti-Biden rhetoric.
By Ed Kilgore
coronavirus
Aug. 24, 2020
Hong Kong’s Key to Keeping COVID Out Is in Its Airport Will the rapid, intensive screening at the Hong Kong airport continue to protect the densely populated city once traffic increases again?
By Suzanne Sataline
Hong Kong’s Media Crackdown Has Begun in Earnest A pro-democracy newspaper owner was arrested for colluding with a foreign power, a charge that could mean life in prison.
By Benjamin Hart
What’s Going on With Trump’s TikTok Ban and the Microsoft Deal? As TikTok users continue to hold their looped breath, Microsoft is again trying to acquire the app after dealing with some Trump-prompted confusion.
By Chas Danner
store openings
July 31, 2020
Is ‘Social Retail’ the Future of Shopping? Burberry’s new store in Shenzhen integrates social media in a way that goes far beyond the average dressing-room selfie.
By Emilia Petrarca
foreign interests
July 24, 2020
Trump’s Reelection Woes, Not Policy, Are Root of Escalating China Tensions President Trump’s decision to shutter the Houston consulate is supposedly about Chinese espionage, but it makes more sense as a reelection tactic.
By Jonah Shepp
United States, World Leader in COVID-19 Deaths, to Leave WHO The Trump administration has officially notified the U.N. that the United States will leave the World Health Organization in 2021.
By Chas Danner
And Now, a Confirmed Case of Bubonic Plague According to Chinese officials, a herdsman in Inner Mongolia has contracted the disease.
By Hannah Gold
interesting times
July 3, 2020
Andrew Sullivan: China Is a Genocidal Menace It’s time we treat the country as the rogue dictatorship that it is.
By Andrew Sullivan
vision 2020
June 23, 2020
China Is Going to Be a Big Issue in the 2020 Campaign. But What Does That Mean? The pandemic and Trump’s bellicose rhetoric will keep Beijing front and center in American politics. Democrats see risks and rewards in that.
By Ben Jacobs
international affairs
May 30, 2020
Trump Has Already Put Himself in No Position to Help Hong Kong Even if he wants to, the president has neither the leverage, the diplomatic skill, nor the credibility to stand up to China over its new power grab.
By Heather Hurlburt
international affairs
May 23, 2020
Hong Kong’s Independence May Not Survive the Pandemic A new law would give China unprecedented power to crack down on the city’s democratic movement, and there’s not much the U.S. can do to stop it.
By Jonah Shepp
Team Trump Goes Negative on Biden Early and Heavily Trump needs to make this a “contrast” election rather than a referendum on his presidency, fast.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Apr. 30, 2020
Trump Thinks He Can Make China Pay for the Virus Like Mexico Paid for the Wall Trump officials are pressuring U.S. intelligence to support their theory that COVID-19 came from a lab.
By Jonathan Chait
just asking questions
Apr. 30, 2020
Why Humanity Will Probably Botch the Next Pandemic, Too A conversation with Mike Davis, author of 2005’s The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu , about nationalism, capitalism, and COVID-19.
By Eric Levitz
coronavirus
Apr. 28, 2020
In the Midst of a Pandemic, Trump Again Cuts Funding That May Prevent Pandemics The White House has rescinded $3.7 million for a study on bat-to-human coronavirus transmission — despite evidence that is how COVID-19 first spread.
By Matt Stieb
the national interest
Apr. 27, 2020
Private Republican Coronavirus Memo: ‘Don’t Defend Trump’ A smoking-gun document shows Republicans are blaming China because they realize Trump’s response is literally indefensible.
By Jonathan Chait
just asking questions
Apr. 22, 2020
Why the U.S. Coronavirus Crisis Is More Trump’s Fault Than the WHO or China A leading critic of Trump’s coronavirus response explains why offshoring blame for the U.S. outbreak just underlines the president’s failure.
By James D. Walsh
interesting times
Apr. 17, 2020
Andrew Sullivan: The Coronavirus Doesn’t Have a Social Message There is a pathogen trying to replicate itself in our bodies. Everything else is projection.
By Andrew Sullivan
coronavirus
Apr. 16, 2020
Is Coronavirus Ushering in a Chinese Future? The world has experienced the pandemic on terms largely defined by one country. That might not be a temporary phenomenon.
By David Wallace-Wells
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