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This piece was first published in the May 7, 2015 issue of One night in September, three hundred people crowded into the basement auditorium of an office tower in Beijing to hear a discussion between two of China’s most popular writers. One was Liu Yu, a thirty-eight-year-old political scientist and blogger who has written a best seller explaining how American democracy works. Her fans call her “goddess”—for her writings and her stylish looks. But this evening, Liu was just a foil for the other writer: Peter Hessler, a low-key New Yorker journalist. Based in China until 2007, he lat...

by David Shambaugh China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom by Richard Baum China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom China’s New Rulers: The Secret Files by Andrew J. Nathan and Bruce Gilley New York Review Books, 280 pp. This article was first published in the September 30, 2010 issue of In the next few weeks, an event will take place in Beijing on a par with anything dreamed up by a conspiracy theorist. A group of roughly three hundred men and women will meet at an undisclosed time and location to set policies for a sixth of humanity. Most C...

Li Wenliang’s death had only been announced a few hours earlier, but Warming High-Tech was already on the case. The company had been monitoring online mentions of the COVID-whistleblower’s name in the several days since police had detained and punished him for “spreading rumors.” Now, news of his deteriorating condition, and eventual passing, had triggered a deluge of sorrow and outrage online adorned with candle emojis, photos of farewell wishes scrawled into the snow, and a final image of the 34-year-old ophthalmologist as he lay in his hospital bed in Wuhan. It was February 7, 2020...

 Posted By Ruth King on December 19th, 2020 No one should mistake what the jailing of Jimmy Lai and other Hong Kong champions of democracy signals: China is testing Joe Biden. Mr. Lai is the founder of one of Hong Kong’s most popular newspapers, Apple Daily. Now he’s in jail facing several charges, including one from a new national security law that China bullied through. We know China was enraged when Mr. Lai met with American politicians on trips to Washington in 2019, including Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the bas...

HK’s Jimmy Lai is man of the year By Chris Patten On Saturday last week, Jimmy Lai (黎智英), a successful businessman, and brave campaigner for freedom and democracy, was led into court in Hong Kong in handcuffs and chains, accused of breaking the National Security Law imposed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The Chinese authorities’ goal in charging Lai was to reinforce the new limits to the rule of law, dissent and autonomy in the territory. The judge was handpicked by Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam (林鄭月娥), whose primary responsibility is to execute the CCP’s mal...