As Trump Unnerves Asia, China Sees an Opening

With America’s Asian allies unnerved by President Trump’s threat to bring “fire and fury” to North Korea, China sees a chance to capitalize on the fear and confusion and emerge as the sober-minded power in the region, according to analysts who...

China Invites Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner to Visit Beijing

China has invited President Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law to visit later this year, according to people familiar with the matter, in the latest sign of the first family’s growing influence over foreign affairs. Details of the possible...

Environment
05.23.17

India and China Will Offset Trump’s Climate Backslide

from chinadialogue

With the U.S. likely to fall short of its Paris Agreement pledge to reduce carbon emissions, a...

Sinica Podcast
05.12.17

What It Takes to Be a Good China-Watcher

Kaiser Kuo & Bill Bishop
from Sinica Podcast

China-watching isn’t what it used to be. Not too long ago, the field of international China studies was dominated by a few male Westerners with an encyclopedic knowledge of China, but with surprisingly little experience living in...

The Princeling in the West Wing

Over the weekend, there was the unseemly spectacle of Jared Kushner’s sister, Nicole Meyer, hawking golden visas to connected Chinese investors if they would put $500,000 into one of the Kushners’ real estate projects in Jersey City.

Anbang, Chinese Company with Global Reach, Faces New Scrutiny

Wu Xiaohui, the Chinese tycoon who was in failed talks with President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to buy into a skyscraper project in Manhattan, is fighting allegations of financial chicanery and has threatened to sue a Chinese magazine...

Jared Kushner Is One of Trump's Top Advisers on China

When President Trump meets with his Chinese counterpart at Mar-a-Lago this weekend, he will not have the assistant secretaries of State and Defense for East Asia at his side — because his administration has failed to hire anyone for either of...