China and Vietnam, Best ‘Frenemies’ Forever
on November 3, 2017
You know those boyfriend-girlfriend relationships that break up, get back together, and break up again? Maybe the two viscerally don’t get along but need each other for some indispensable reason. That pattern describes ties between China and Vietnam, neighbors with deep shared interests as well as deep mutual distrust.
China Disputes Trump’s Claim of Flood of Chinese Fentanyl into US
on November 3, 2017
Beijing says there is not enough evidence to support allegations that most of the illicit drug involved in the epidemic is made on its soil.
Beijing Says It Peacefully Resolved a South China Sea Dispute with Vietnam
on November 3, 2017
China and Vietnam have reached an agreement on managing their dispute in the South China Sea through friendly talks, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Friday, following an ugly spat over the summer between the two communist neighbors.
How China’s Economy Is Poised to Win the Future
on November 3, 2017
President Trump has plenty of work to do during his 10-day tour of Asia in November. In Japan and South Korea, he must reassure nervous allies that an “America first” foreign policy does not mean the U.S. has ceded regional dominance to China. In Vietnam and the Philippines, he has to communicate deep U.S. interest in balancing China’s influence in Southeast Asia.
China Bank Barred from US Financial System over North Korea Ties
on November 3, 2017
The U.S. Treasury department has severed a small Chinese bank’s ties with the U.S. financial system over its alleged support for North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.
China Deflects Blame for Opioid Crisis as Trump Visit Nears
on November 3, 2017
As President Trump visits China next week, his vow to press for more stringent drug controls may run into resistance from a government loath to accept full responsibility for its role in the United States’ opioid problem.
China Deflects Blame for Opioid Crisis as Trump Visit Nears
on November 3, 2017
As President Trump visits China next week, his vow to press for more stringent drug controls may run into resistance from a government loath to accept full responsibility for its role in the United States’ opioid problem.
Yangyang Cheng
on November 3, 2017
Yangyang Cheng is an award-winning writer and interdisciplinary scholar, whose research focuses on the history of science in China and U.S.-China relations. She is a Senior Fellow at Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, MIT Technology Review, and WIRED, and have received several honors from the Society of Publishers in Asia, the Asian American Journalists Association, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. She is a co-host, writer, and producer of the acclaimed narrative podcast series Dissident at the Doorstep, from Crooked Media. She also hosts Made in China Journal’s Gateway to Global China podcast. Born and raised in China and trained as a particle physicist, Cheng received her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago and worked on the Large Hadron Collider for more than a decade. From 2021 to 2026, she was a Research Scholar in Law and Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center.
The Future of Particle Physics Will Live and Die in China
China’s next-generation supercollider will unlock secrets of the universe—and destroy the ideals of the scientists running it.
on November 3, 2017
“Don’t you dare kill my project.”
