Articles by: "Nancy Qian"
America needs political age limits

Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 US presidential race remains one of the biggest stories of the year. Criticised for his June debate performance and showing clear signs of aging, the 81-year-old president finally acknowledged …

Trump is likely to escalate the US-China trade war

With Donald Trump still leading in polls ahead of the US presidential election, many are wondering how a second Trump administration would approach China. Trump’s stance on purely political issues is unclear. He recently remarked …

What TikTok got wrong about America

TikTok is now one of the biggest stories in business and geopolitics. US President Joe Biden  has just signed a law that will ban the massively popular app in nine months if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does …

Why are so many young Chinese depressed?

China’s high youth unemployment rate and increasingly disillusioned young people—many of whom are ‘giving up’ on work—have attracted much attention from global media outlets and Chinese policymakers. The standard narrative is to associate the problem …

The long tail of China’s zero-Covid policy

For three years, China’s zero-Covid policy consistently received high-profile media coverage from the Chinese and the international press. During the first phase of the pandemic, China’s mass mobilisation of resources and strict regionwide lockdowns were …