Q
on March 28, 2025
Q is the pen name of a professor of history at a university in the United States.
Wang Xiao
on March 21, 2025
Wang Xiao is the pen name of a contributor to the online magazine Mang Mang.
Mang Mang
on March 21, 2025
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Mang Mang is an independent magazine founded in 2022, by a group of young partners overseas. It continues to absorb creators who are concerned about Chinese issues.
‘Survival Comes First’
A Chinese Internet content monitor explains the job
on March 18, 2025
Generation Z has now become the primary force among China’s growing ranks of China’s online content moderators, who number in the tens of thousands. Their physical stamina means they generally fare better with the intense demands of the job and can stay up late to respond quickly to issues with sensitive content. They now handle the bulk of the work for major internet platforms when it comes to content moderation. Also known as the “Internet Generation,” Generation Z also includes those born after 1995, who from birth have known only a world with the internet, which arrived in China in 1994. They are not just familiar with the internet, mobile technology, and smart applications, but have also grown up alongside the Great Firewall, which since 1996 has cut them off from the global internet.
Former Chinese Enemies Increasingly Aligned on Taiwan
Taiwan’s KMT is closer than ever to its old nemesis, the Chinese Communist Party. Many Taiwanese who seek to maintain their sovereignty are worried.
on March 18, 2025
A conservative party pledging to return the country to a glorious imagined past. Massive budget cuts across government ministries. Concerns about foreign influence. An unprecedented challenge of governmental checks and balances as a constitutional crisis looms.
Why Were 40 Uyghurs Extradited from Thailand to China?
A Note from Rune Steenberg
on March 13, 2025
On February 28, Thailand extradited 40 Uyghur men to China. The men were part of a larger group that fled to Thailand in 2014 to escape increasing repression in China. They had been in detention for over a decade as Bangkok tried to avoid angering either China, which demanded the Uyghurs’ repatriation, or other members of the international community, which urged Bangkok to allow the Uyghurs to resettle in a third country. Anthropologist and Uyghur interpreter Rune Steenberg considers the causes and implications of the sudden extradition.
U.S.-Soviet Détente and the Future of U.S.-China Relations
on March 13, 2025
In the early 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union passed through a period of intense rivalry. The Soviets built the Berlin Wall. A nuclear war almost broke out over Soviet plans to deploy missiles to Cuba. But surprisingly, within a few years relations started to thaw.
Christopher Chivvis
on March 7, 2025
Christopher Chivvis is a senior fellow and director of the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has more than two decades of experience working on U.S. foreign policy and national security challenges. He most recently served as the U.S. national intelligence officer for Europe.
At Carnegie, Chivvis leads policy-focused research aimed at developing realistic U.S. strategy for an era of great power competition and building a foreign policy that serves the needs of the American people.
Chivvis’ experience with U.S. foreign policy spans government, academia, and the think tank world. Before joining the National Intelligence Council, he was the deputy head of the RAND Corporation’s international security program and worked in the Defense Department. He also has held positions at multiple universities and think tanks in the United States and Europe.
Chivvis is also the author of three scholarly books and several monographs and articles. His commentary has appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the National Interest, National Public Radio, and several other outlets.
Chris holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches courses on international history and U.S. foreign policy.