Tag: china

• 2025 letter | Dan Wang

  January 3, 2026

  Corgis, compute, Cold War; Ecclesiastes; ties; Stendhal; humor; Pascal’s Wager; deep infrastructure; Germanic obedience; Texas State Fair https://danwang.co/2025-letter/ more ›

• China to let banks pay interest on digital yuan to drive adoption

  December 30, 2025

  China’s central bank will allow commercial banks to pay interests on digital yuan holdings in a new framework taking effect on Jan. 1, 2026. https://www.theblock.co/post/383824/china-interest-digital-yuan more ›

• The Illiberal International: Authoritarian Cooperation Is Reshaping the Global Order

  December 26, 2025

  Authoritarian cooperation is reshaping the global order. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/illiberal-international-cheeseman-bianchi-cyr?utm_medium=newsletters&utm_source=twofa&utm_campaign=NEWS_FA%20This%20Week_122625_The%20Illiberal%20International&utm_content=20251226&utm_term=N more ›

• What China wants from Europe – Engelsberg ideas

  November 30, 2025

  China’s activities in Europe are driven more by opportunism than any grand plot to divide the continent. In geopolitical terms, Beijing treats European countries as extensions of American power. https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/what-china-wants-from-europe/ more ›

• Another Reckoning – The Ideas Letter

  November 27, 2025

  Wang traces the emergence of multiple generationally distinct “reckonings” with China among different groups: There are the young Americans who encounter the country as offering a sleek, TikTok-mediated vision of…… more ›

• CNBC’s The China Connection newsletter: China’s homegrown games capture overseas players as its cultural influence expands

  November 20, 2025

  In a big year for Chinese cultural exports, a new video game is the latest to win a global audience. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/china-connection-newsletter-video-game-soft-power-tencent-netease-pif-where-winds-meet.html more ›

• China is the new science power: How will Europe respond?

  November 5, 2025

  China is taking the lead in international science: A new study shows how China overtakes the US in key areas of research and increasingly dominates the agenda. What does this… more ›

• The Great Reckoning – The Ideas Letter

  November 2, 2025

  The world feels unsettled, as if history itself were changing tempo. The familiar landmarks of the modern age are blurring, slipping away, and the stories we once told ourselves about… more ›

• The Stagnant Order | Michael Beckley

  October 27, 2025

  The end of rising powers. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/stagnant-order-michael-beckley more ›

• China’s innovation fixation

  October 19, 2025

  The coming plenum will reveal Xi’s economic agenda as security project, not growth program. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/china-s-innovation-fixation?utm_source=semafor more ›