INSIDE CHINA Those Who Have Disappeared (Again): Emergency Response in China Highly exposed to severe disasters, China intertwines its emergency relief approach with maintaining political stability and social control. By He Man 09:15 pm | July 22, 2024
INSIDE CHINA Local Debts: Whose Baby? As the local debt crisis in China intensifies, Part Two of our analysis explores how governments at various levels struggle to manage the burden and the future outlook. By Hubert Xue 11:54 am | January 31, 2024
INSIDE CHINA Local Debts: a Top-Level Design How China's central and local governments have jointly ushered in a debt-based economic model in the past decade. By Hubert Xue 02:47 pm | August 16, 2023
INSIDE CHINA China’s Hollowed-Out Mental Health System Delving into the psychosocial trauma that has eroded the confidence of Chinese society in the future. By Hermine Liu 05:02 pm | July 6, 2023
INSIDE CHINA Irregular Unemployment and China’s ‘Last Generation’ 2022 put an end to a core belief many Chinese people had harbored: as long as one works hard enough, life will keep improving. By He Man and Zhu Yi 07:21 pm | January 16, 2023
INSIDE CHINA Political or Economic Calculus? As China clings to its zero-covid approach, new investments announced by international business show how little the latter knows about the political restraints on the Chinese economy. By Xu Hui and Zhu Yi 09:11 pm | September 12, 2022
INSIDE CHINA Old Regime, New Tech The technology behind China’s COVID-19 apps is neither homegrown nor cutting-edge, while pandemic control across the country still relies on the old governance model of social control through immense manpower. Liu Manyi 12:59 pm | October 1, 2021
INSIDE CHINA A Tale of Two E-Mobilities Why the EU shouldn’t interpret the Chinese booming e-car market as evidence of China’s interest in climate protection By Zhu Yi 12:36 pm | July 23, 2021
INSIDE CHINA The Campus Fire Goes Out While there is an increasing global discussion about China’s influence on academic freedom, a Chinese scholar gives his insights as to why liberal thoughts disappeared on Chinese Campus. By Li Boti 03:37 pm | April 26, 2021