The People´s Bank of China, the central bank, recently pushed 100 billion Renminbi to its five largest banks to stimulate the economy. But China´s economy rather needs reforms than more capital, argues financial analyst Sara Hsu in the Diplomat.Read More →
Journalist Ian Johnson interviewed sexologist Li Yinhe for the New York Review of Books on her work on same-sex marriages, the Party, SM, orgies and the position of women in China. Li Yinhe believes the position of women has greatly improved since 1949.Read More →
The central government might be trying to heal some of the wrongs related to hukou´s, like migrant children not allowed to attend schools in cities. But reality is still harsh, tells author Zhang Lijia in the South China Morning Post, as her neighbor´s kid is forced to leave. Read More →
Spending might be down, under the pressure of an ongoing anti-corruption drive, but the number of super-rich in China is going up, according to Rupert Hoogewerf, founder of the Hurun China rich list at AFP. Beijing is still leading before Shanghai and Guangdong.Read More →
The much awarded journalist Ian Johnson is joining today the China Speakers Bureau. Working in China since 1984, Ian worked for the Wall Street Journal as feature writer and bureau chief for twelve years.He is currently living in Beijing and Berlin as an independent journalist, working both for the New York Review of Books and the Wall Street Journal.Read More →
One of the reforms in China have changed the way it´s central bank is operating, writes financial analyst Sara Hsu in the Diplomat. A new set of tools allows the bankers to be more creative.Read More →
Author Howard French´ latest book China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africais getting raving reviews. Here a few remark by Kerry Brown, Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney for Caixin.Read More →
Stories about hospital staff being beaten up by angry patients and their families have become all too common in China´s media. Corruption and underfunding are the base of that violence, says author Zhang Lijia, who pleads for health care reforms in the South China Morning PostRead More →
In a detailed write-up for the Columbia Journalism Review former foreign correspondent Howard French describes how Bloomberg started to engage in political reporting in China, to compete with the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, but killed a successful journalism project, after China´s power-brokers turned up the heat.Read More →
Financial analysts Sara Hsu has been predicting doomsday scenario´s for China´s financial stability in the past. But the announced financial reforms have made her carefully optimistic about the direction the country is taking, she writes in the China Brief.Read More →
Twenty years ago the internet in China became available, and no other change has made such an impacts on the Chinese society, says Kaiser Kuo, director international communication at China´s largest search engine Baidu at CNN.Read More →
Financial analyst Sara Hsu tries to make sense out of the long list of policy changes the central bank, the People´s Bank of China (PBOC) has announced in the past year, under the Xi-Li government. “Right now, the opaque is becoming more transparent,” she writes in The Diplomat.Read More →