The prospect of a massive dam in Tibet raises the roof on anxiety for downstream neighbors.
China’s alternative to “Iron Silk Road” bypasses Russia
China’s ongoing interest in securing delivery routes is part of a long-term investment that serves a variety of end goals, including its dependence on fossil fuels.
World’s largest dam to be built by China raises concerns in India, Bangladesh
China’s decision to build the world’s largest hydropower dam in a seismically active region on a river that flows into India and Bangladesh sparks concerns in both countries.
How China is expanding global influence via debt trap diplomacy
China’s Belt and Road Initiative has resulted in several unsustainable debt-for-infrastructure deals in South Asia and Europe, which further Beijing’s geostrategic ambitions.
Tibet earthquake raises a big question mark on China’s Yarlung Tsangpo super dam project
Why construct the world’s biggest dam in a seismically vulnerable region that doesn’t even require the energy it will generate?
Bigger than Three Gorges
China announces the construction of the world’s largest super dam on the Yarlung Zangbo River.
China’s AI boom depends on an army of exploited student interns
As part of China’s digital underclass, vocational school students work as data annotators—for low pay and few future prospects.
China’s people deserve the truth—not censorship | Opinion
The bipartisan INFORM Act is a bill that directs the U.S. executive branch to share clear, independent information with Chinese citizens in a bid to prioritize meaningful engagement.
Can “journey to the West” help explain a spate of killings in China?
As random acts of violence grip the country, netizens connect the events to an underclass venting rage on itself with antecedents in literary tradition.
Independent bookstores under pressure; Taiwanese books shut out
Independent bookstores are in the crosshairs of the CCP’s crackdown on free expression. One bookseller likens his situation to “smuggling drugs instead of selling books.”
“Confessions of a Collegiate ‘Zhengzhou-to-Kaifeng Night-Cyclist’”
A first-person account by one student who joined a night ride to Kaifeng, its origins, and the descent of a fun-filled experience into authoritarian control.
Young Chinese flock to ‘academic pubs’ as space for free expression shrinks
Happy-hour huddles give Chinese students “a place without authority…to speak their mind.”
Brussels’ global infrastructure plan isn’t challenging Beijing — it’s relying on it
EU-funded projects abroad are being built by Chinese companies.
JF Books returns
The rise and fall of an independent bookstore and the fate of civil society in China.
The Mystery of Deng Xiaoping in 1989—could Deng have ended autocracy using autocratic means?
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