China, North Korea, and Nuclear Arms
OUYANG BIN, DAVID M. BARREDA, ZHANG XIAORAN (& authors)As tensions again escalate on the Korean Peninsula, ChinaFile examines more than a decade of developments in North Korea’s nuclear armaments program. We begin our timeline in late 2002, when China first joined diplomatic discussions, paving the way for what would become...
Who Supplies Apple? (It’s Not Just China): An...
DAVID M. BARREDA, DAVID WERTIME, TEA LEAF NATIONLast month, Apple Inc. released its updated list of suppliers. This report says it includes “the major manufacturing locations of suppliers who provide raw materials and components or perform final assembly on Apple.” ChinaFile used this data to construct the interactive map...
What Does China Think?
CNPOLITICS, TEA LEAF NATIONAre Chinese citizens happy with the direction their country is taking? Do they believe in a market economy? Do they believe that hard work brings success? Each year, the American think tank Pew Research Center asks questions like these to over 300,000 interviewees across...
A Comparison of China’s and America’s Richest...
CNPOLITICS, TEA LEAF NATIONCNPolitics, a Chinese-language news website, recently released this infographic examining the differences between China and America’s wealthiest individuals as reported by Forbes Magazine. As the site notes, China’s relatively recent economic rise means its wealthy tend to...