![Berlin – Social Development in China: Discussing the Phenomenon of Queer Families with Popo Fan [Tuesday, February 07]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/popo-400x350.jpeg "Berlin – Social Development in China: Discussing the Phenomenon of Queer Families with Popo Fan [Tuesday, February 07]")
In recent years, attitudes towards family structures have changed quite dramatically in China. Despite government censorship, the LGBTQ community is becoming increasingly visible and outspoken. For several years as a film maker, Popo Fan has been interviewing people regarding their
![Singapore – Young China Hand: Author Presentation with Matt Huang and Grace Hsu [Thursday, February 02]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/YCH-333x350.jpg "Singapore – Young China Hand: Author Presentation with Matt Huang and Grace Hsu [Thursday, February 02]")
Recently featured in the Straits Times, Young China Hand is a thriller about a crisis-era clash between Western wits, Chinese princeling-linked financiers and Peking duck farmers. Inspired by true events and experiences between 2008 and 2013, Young China Hand combines
![Brussels – YCW Brussels: Dumplings & Divination – Chinese New Year Feast with Yu Jiao [Thursday, February 02]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/yujiao_01-750x350.png "Brussels – YCW Brussels: Dumplings & Divination – Chinese New Year Feast with Yu Jiao [Thursday, February 02]")
Come and join Young China Watchers Brussels to celebrate the start of the Year of the Rooster! On the occasion of Chinese New Year, Young China Watchers is hosting a dinner and talk, accompanied by traditional Chinese dishes, such as
![Singapore – Understanding and Securing the Belt and Road: The View From the Ground with Khong Yuen Foong, Raffaello Pantucci [Khong Yuen Foong and Raffaello Pantucci]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/khongyuenfoong_01-750x350.png "Singapore – Understanding and Securing the Belt and Road: The View From the Ground with Khong Yuen Foong, Raffaello Pantucci [Khong Yuen Foong and Raffaello Pantucci]")
Four years since President Xi Jinping announced the Silk Road Economic Belt in Astana the regional project has become the outline for a global vision known as the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’. But it is seen in a very different
![Hong Kong – Trump Cements China’s Clean Energy Leadership Position. Now What? with Charles Yonts, Tienyu Sieh [Charles Yonts and Tienyu Sieh ]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/t7gkrm_K.jpg "Hong Kong – Trump Cements China’s Clean Energy Leadership Position. Now What? with Charles Yonts, Tienyu Sieh [Charles Yonts and Tienyu Sieh ]")
The balance of power in climate leadership has shifted. Eight years after it was largely blamed for the climate change talks fiasco in Copenhagen, China is leading the clean energy charge, making Trump’s election a sideshow in the climate change