"Xi Jinping won the agenda for his summit with Donald Trump before Airforce One touched down in Beijing," writes Robert Daly, director of the Program on China and the United States at the University of Maryland. But what did the U.S. get? chinafile.com/reporting-opin…

In her new graphic memoir 'Names and Faces,' comic artist Leise Hook illustrates a story of identity, exploring “the in-betweenness of being mixed-race.” Author Q&A: chinafile.com/reporting-opin… Read an excerpt: chinafile.com/library/excerp…

China is more watched—and more opaque—than ever. @EconomistPods Drum Tower hosts @Sarah_Wu_ and @JNBPage join @nytimes's @LiYuan6 for a live podcast recording on what it actually takes to report on China today. Co-hosted by the Center for China Analysis & @ChinaFile. Register: asiasociety.org/policy-insti…

hello from beijing. standing in the old editorial office of La Jeunesse (新青年), the magazine in the early 20th century that shook modern China to its core. Reading Chen Duxiu's founding manifesto "To the Youth" hits terribly hard. his five demands are: autonomy over servitude, progress over conservatism, engagement over retreat, global openness over isolation, pragmatism over empty ritual (自主的而非奴役的，进步的而非保守的，进取的而非退隐的，世界的而非锁国的，实利的而非虚文的). how many young people, in China or anywhere, are still out here loudly demanding all of them? a century later, I'm counting on my fingers.

Senior Chinese diplomat Sun Weidong has been dismissed from his post as vice minister of foreign affairs, in the latest case of a high-ranking official being removed from office by Beijing aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/14…

The latest issue of Hǎi 海 is out: an profile of Wang Yaqiu, and recommdations for Chinese cultural events and media from from around the world. alltimehai.substack.com/p/ho…

EVENT: Did Biden get China right? Join @CChivvis, @RushDoshi , @JulianGewirtz , and @rosenbergerlm to explore Trump's approach to China, lessons from the Biden admin, and what comes next. 📆 Tuesday, March 24 | 11:00 AM ET | Live Online carnegieendowment.org/events…

Link to Wenhao Ma's excellent piece in @ChinaFile chinafile.com/reporting-opin…

It saddens me that a surprising number of people in the West do not seem to care about the political censorship built into Chinese AI models, considering that is irrelevant to their usage.

Delighted to contribute to this @ChinaFile conversation on China-Japan tensions ahead of Prime Minister Takaichi’s visit to Washington this month. Also feat. Danny Russel, Yun Sun, Elli-Katharina Pohlkamp, and @mcgregorrichard. (Link below)

China banned seafood imports, restricted dual-use exports, and sent joint bomber patrols with Russia near Japan. Is this a familiar pressure playbook—or something more ominous? ChinaFile's latest Conversation: chinafile.com/conversation/t…

i’m still a little surprised by the amount of attention and unexpected paths my @WIRED piece has taken. for those who don’t know the context: this piece was published in January on WIRED and it's about Morning Star of Lingao, a crowd-sourced, essentially never-ending sci-fi story written collaboratively on the chinese internet. the premise is: 500 people time-travel back to the Ming dynasty to industrialize China. what’s been most humbling is seeing where the piece has travelled. A scholar friend at Yale just told me she assigned it as required reading in her “China in the World” course and is considering incorporating it into one of her public lectures. I’ve also been invited to write a follow-up for the European publication Le Grand Continent, which will publish the piece in French and Spanish (coming out in April). i also had the chance to talk about it on @KaiserKuo's podcast Sinica, and @kyleichan's podcast High Capacity (i'll post the links in reply). And perhaps most surreal of all, the piece has been translated and circulated widely in China, including among readers of Lingao. Ma Qianzu himself — whom i couldn’t reach while reporting the article — recently reached out to chat. I’m honestly just grateful the story resonated with people. link in reply.

The lawsuit in the case of the death of Dr Jane Wu is worth a read - it alleges shocking details in what has been one of the most horrific cases tied to the China Initiative npr.org/2026/03/04/nx-s1-571…

While recognizing how hard it would be, I urge the China human rights community to move away from U.S. government support, for the sake of our work's long-term sustainability, integrity and effectiveness. My piece: chinafile.com/reporting-opin…

The latest issue of Hǎi 海 newsletter includes a profile of ceramic artist Chang Liu, and listings of events, podcasts, and articles from the global Chinese community: alltimehai.substack.com/p/fr…

"We wouldn't take Chinese or Saudi government money. At what point should we stop taking U.S. government money?" Amid funding cuts, the China human rights community some tough questions. chinafile.com/reporting-opin…

A very thoughtful take on Chinese civil society by one of Japan’s top China watchers.

Journalist and author Zha Jianying joined @ChinaFile to discuss her piece "Trains: A Chinese Family History of Railway Journeys, Exile, and Survival." "I started with details of my own childhood train-hopping, and that metaphor and image of [my grandfather] saying goodbye to his French wife and daughter, both have to do with trains ...I realized trains are a very apt metaphor, both in terms of this particular family history and as sort of a central metaphor for China’s journey of modernization." chinafile.com/reporting-opin…