Xi Jinping is often described as China’s most powerful leader in decades, perhaps even since Mao. He has been credited if sometimes grudgingly with pursuing a vigorous foreign policy, economic reforms, and a historic crackdown on corruption.But as Xi completes his third year in office this month, this judgment seems increasingly mistaken, with China trapped by the same taboos
Darren Byler joined ChinaFile’s Susan Jakes and Jessica Batke to discuss his new book, In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony. Evidence has mounted in recent years that China’s government has incarcerated more than one million Uyghurs and members of other ethnic and religious minorities in a network of detention facilities across Xinjiang, while subjecting millions of
Wall Street Journal reporters Josh Chin and Liza Lin discussed their new book with ChinaFile Senior Editor Jessica Batke and Arthur Ross Director of Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations Orville Schell. Surveillance State: Inside China’s Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control explores the political and social control the Chinese Communist Party is building by
The following is an edited transcript of a live event hosted at Asia Society in New York on September 7, 2017, and named for a new book by Richard McGregor, the former Beijing Bureau Chief of the Financial Times, “ChinaFile Presents: ‘Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century.’” Panelists included McGregor, Susan Shirk, and Ian Buruma,
Following is an edited transcript of a live event hosted at Asia Society New York on May 21, 2015, “ChinaFile Presents: Does Xi Jinping Represent a Return to the Politics of the Mao Era?” The evening convened the scholars Roderick MacFarquhar and Andrew Walder the publication of whose new book on Mao Zedong was the occasion for the event with diplomat Susan Shirk and Orville