China-Saudi RMB Settlement Will Insulate the Oil Trade from U.S. Sanctions

Christopher Vassallo

In recent years, Beijing has made efforts to facilitate the settlement of China-Saudi oil trade in renminbi (RMB) rather than in U.S. dollars, a move that would steel China’s trade from financial sanctions and disrupt the global market for oil. Read full story>>

10 Years of U.S.-China Trade Relations

A China in the World Podcast

Paul Haenle, Yukon Huang & more via Carnegie China

Trade ties between the U.S. and China have undergone significant changes since the launch of the China in the World podcast 10 years ago. This episode helps shed light on the evolution of U.S.-China trade relations over that time. Read full story>>

ChinaFile Presents: China Reporting in Exile

Annie Jieping Zhang, Li Yuan & more

ChinaFile and The New York Review of Books co-hosted a panel discussion with Chinese journalists working from abroad. Participants included reporter, editor, and digital media entrepreneur Annie Jieping Zhang, New York Times columnist Li Yuan, investigative journalist and essayist Jiang Xue, and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Ian Johnson. ChinaFile Editor-in-Chief Susan Jakes moderated the conversation. Read full story>>

Are Staying in the U.S. or Returning to China Mutually Exclusive?

A ChinaFile Conversation

Wendy Zhou, Zizhu Zhang & more via ChinaFile Conversation

The past several years have seen declines in both the number of Chinese students studying in the U.S. and U.S. students studying China. We asked Chinese students studying, or who have recently completed their studies, in the U.S. why they chose to go to school in America and how the tense relationship between the U.S. and China has affected their studies and post-graduation plans. Read full story>>

What Is the Future for International Students in China?

A ChinaFile Conversation

Jack Allen, Matthew Barocas & more via ChinaFile Conversation

In the last several years, an under-appreciated element of China’s retreat from the global stage has been diminished educational exchange, and particularly that exchange’s impact on students. During the height of the pandemic, tens of thousands of students globally waited for official approval to enter or return to China for their studies, while countries such as the U.S., U.K., and Australia, among others, reopened their borders to foreign students. While some institutions were able to make... Read full story>>

What’s Behind China’s Laws to Protect Privacy?

A Q&A with Mark Jia

Samm Sacks & Mark Jia

In his article “Authoritarian Privacy” for the University of Chicago Law Review, Mark Jia writes: “Privacy laws are traditionally associated with democracy. Yet autocracies increasingly have them.” In this ChinaFile Q&A, Jia and Samm Sacks engage in an exchange about what has motivated the Chinese government to enact and enforce a range of laws on information privacy and the implications for understanding the role of privacy laws in non-democratic states.Samm Sacks: Outside observers... Read full story>>

Then Suddenly It Was Gone

A Portrait of Hong Kong

Billy H.C. Kwok & Summer Sun

Hong Kong photographer Billy H.C. Kwok was eight years old when the United Kingdom handed over control of Hong Kong to China in 1997. Growing up, Kwok witnessed British influence wane and China’s control grow. He has also watched the freedoms promised to Hong Kong under the principle of “One Country, Two Systems” ground down before his eyes, “at first slowly and now all at once,” as he wrote for The Nation in the summer of 2020.This disappearance impelled him to document the city before Beijing... Read full story>>