‘China’s Surveillance State Is Growing: These Documents Reveal How.’

Video Investigation from The New York Times Draws on ChinaFile Research

The Visual Investigations team at The New York Times reported and produced this video, using some 100,000 procurement documents provided by ChinaFile. Research shared with the Times built off of Jessica Batke and Mareike Ohlberg’s ChinaFile article, “State of Surveillance: Government Documents Reveal New Evidence on China’s Efforts to Monitor Its People.”

Taylor Loeb

Taylor Loeb is a macroeconomics and financial markets analyst at Trivium, a China-focused consultancy. He spent five years in China, including two years as a Teach for China teaching fellow in rural Yunnan and a year as a lecturer at Changzhou University. He holds dual Master’s degrees from Tsinghua University (International Relations) and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (International Economics & China Studies) along with a BSM (Finance) from Tulane University.

China’s Record Urban Youth Unemployment

A ChinaFile Conversation

China has recorded its highest level of unemployment among urban youth since the country began tracking it in 2018. In March, 16 percent of Chinese city-dwellers aged 16 to 24 were unemployed, compared to 13.6 percent a year earlier. In May, that figure climbed to 18.4 percent. Already struggling with high jobless rates before the pandemic, even the most educated of China’s youth face stiff competition for fewer jobs opportunities. How long is this likely to last, and what might its effects be?