Through our 10 chapters in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, London, New York, San Francisco, Berlin, Singapore, Brussels, and Washington DC, YCW engages individuals on the most pressing issues emerging from China today.
YCW attracts leading experts on China from academic, policy and business communities to speak across our city chapters in Asia, Europe and the U.S.
YCW hosts roundtables and dinners with visiting experts and delegations, allowing for more focused interaction and discussions on the latest key issues. Our growing online community features diverse analysis by established and emerging experts, connecting with our members around the world.
Chief Editor of Initium, a Hong Kong-based online platform, speaks to YCW Partner MERICS about journalistic principles in a restrictive political environment.
![London – Young Lives in New China with Alec Ash [Thursday, October 13]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/alec_ash_sm.jpg "London – Young Lives in New China with Alec Ash [Thursday, October 13]")
There are more than 320 million people in mainland China between the ages of sixteen and thirty. Children of the one-child policy, born after Mao, with distant memory of Tiananmen, they are the first generation to come of age in
Chinadialogue.net pioneered web-based environmental information. Founder and editor Isabel Hilton tells us about her first experiences in China in the 1970s, her career in international journalism, the evolution of environmental reporting on China, and how meaningful cross-cultural conversations are facilitated through the internet and social media.
![San Francisco – Cross-Strait Dilemmas: U.S.-China-Taiwan Relations in an Age of Evolving Identities with Syaru Shirley Lin, Harry Harding [Monday, October 17]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/syaru-750x350.jpg "San Francisco – Cross-Strait Dilemmas: U.S.-China-Taiwan Relations in an Age of Evolving Identities with Syaru Shirley Lin, Harry Harding [Monday, October 17]")
On October 17th, YCW San Francisco hosted an invigorating round table discussion led by Professor Syaru Shirley Lin of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Professor Harry Harding of the University of Virginia on the challenges facing China, the
In this candid interview, Jeremy Goldkorn, Danwei founder and co-host of the ever-popular Sinica podcast, discusses his 20 years in China including his early experiences with Danwei and the many ways the country has changed since the day he arrived in 1995.