INSIDE CHINA Local Debts: a Top-Level Design How China's central and local governments have jointly ushered in a debt-based economic model in the past decade. By Hubert Xue 02:47 pm | August 16, 2023
INSIDE CHINA China’s Hollowed-Out Mental Health System Delving into the psychosocial trauma that has eroded the confidence of Chinese society in the future. By Hermine Liu 05:02 pm | July 6, 2023
Podcasts Russia: enemy, friend, or lesson for China? Prominent Russia and Eastern Europe expert Jin Yan gives some historical perspective on Sino-Russian relations and why it is futile to expect China to pressure Russia to end the war. By Echowall Staff 11:36 am | May 16, 2023
Podcasts Systemic Competition, “Low Human Rights Advantage”, and how to make a better Globalization Chinese leading liberal intellectual Qin Hui speaks about the West's responsibility for the rise of autocratic powers in the wake of global economic interactions and how to improve globalization to avoid a hard decoupling. By Echowall Staff 05:51 pm | February 22, 2023
INSIDE CHINA Irregular Unemployment and China’s ‘Last Generation’ 2022 put an end to a core belief many Chinese people had harbored: as long as one works hard enough, life will keep improving. By He Man and Zhu Yi 07:21 pm | January 16, 2023
INSIDE CHINA Political or Economic Calculus? As China clings to its zero-covid approach, new investments announced by international business show how little the latter knows about the political restraints on the Chinese economy. By Xu Hui and Zhu Yi 09:11 pm | September 12, 2022
GREATER CHINA The Frontier of the Global Chip War: 1) the Delayed Justice? Taiwan’s semiconductor industry has been under the global spotlight amid the chip shortage since 2020 and the rising geopolitical tech race among great powers. How have Taiwanese chipmakers silently become a central driver of the world economy over the past decades? By Letitia Lin 06:12 pm | July 26, 2022
CHINA AND THE WORLD Scholz the Partner, Baerbock the Rival, and Lindner the Competitor? How is the China policy of the new German coalition government framed by the Chinese media? By Zhu Yi 03:28 pm | May 11, 2022
CHINA AND THE WORLD Public opinion roundup: Ukraine crisis viewed in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan While Putin is cheered as "Vladimir the Great" in mainland China, people in Taiwan ask whether Ukraine today is going to end up being Taiwan’s fate tomorrow By 5 authors: Initium Media journalists Lai Fu, Zhuo Lin, Yu Meixia, Wang Yizhen, and Fu Yuxin in Beijing, Taipei and Singapore 10:41 am | February 28, 2022