YCW interviews Lauren Dickey, PhD candidate in the Department of War Studies at King’s College, about her research on Chinese foreign and defense policy and cross-strait relations with Taiwan.
YCW’s Virgil Bisio reviews “Dead Pigs,” a debut film by Chinese-American director Cathy Yan, which grapples with the challenges and contradictions of everyday life in China.
While the U.S.-China trade conflict dominated mainstream media, several other events of 2018 will shape the China of the future, among them the removal of the presidential term limits or the development of Artificial Intelligence capabilities. Looking back at the past year, we selected a few particularly insightful interviews and features that may provide a wider view on the variety of issues and topics emerging from the China-watching community globally.
YCW has leveraged its global network of young professionals to produce the inaugural YCW 2018 Pulse Survey, which presents views from a community of young professionals engaged with China issues.
MacroPolo Research Associate Neil Thomas chats to YCW about Western perceptions of Xi’s foreign policy, and propaganda and the “Toilet Revolution” in the Xi era.