The 2026 Beijing summit was about the future of Taiwan and the structure of U.S.-China relations in the Indo-Pacific. For Beijing, the commercial agreements reached during the summit represented a strategic effort to influence Washington’s posture toward the Taiwan Strait. For decades, the United States has maintained a policy of strategic ambiguity toward Taiwan. President Trump suggested a more openly transactional approach toward the issue. Trump has paused $14 billion in arms sales to Taiwan.
The Association of Foreign Correspondents in China (FCCC) has presented its annual survey on the situation of reporters in China. According to the survey, working conditions for journalists in China "usually" or "almost never" meet international standards. 89 of the 176 members responded to questions from the FCCC. FCCC was founded in 1981 at the request of the Chinese government. Chinese authorities warned journalists not to join or be closely associated with the club.
Xi will be the keynote speaker at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on Friday. The most senior speaker in the past was Premier Li Qiang. Expect to hear about the Global AI Governance Initiative and China's approach to helping the world benefit from AI.
Y UEYANG in Hunan province is famous for its tower, an elegant three-story pavilion immortalised in millennium-old prose still memorised by schoolchildren. The streets around the tower are an ambitious project to revitalise the city and represent a new turn in China’s economic management as officials try to ease fiscal straits by squeezing more out of state assets.
Overseas investors increased their exposure to China's advanced manufacturing and technology companies under the mainland-Hong Kong Stock Connect scheme to a record high of 3.13 trillion yuan (US$461.65 billion) by the end of June. Technology and advanced manufacturing companies account for seven of the 10 largest foreign-held A-share positions in China.
Stratechery Plus gives you access to the subscriber-only Stratechery Update, the Sharp Tech, Sharp China, Dithering, Greatest of All Talk, and Asianometry podcasts. It costs $15 per month or $150 per year. All subscriptions auto-renew monthly/annually and can be cancelled at any time.
Some Chinese immigrants in the U.S. are loyal to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The Party uses local associations and chambers of commerce abroad as intermediaries to exert pressure on business interests in China. The United Front Work Department has come close to monopolizing traditional Chinese-language media and WeChat groups overseas. Taiwan's National Security Bureau has identified two core goals behind the Party's cognitive warfare targeting Chinese Americans. Trump marked America’s 250th anniversary with blunt warnings about communism.
The ongoing US tariff investigations against China and Washington’s other trading partners are unlikely to significantly impair bilateral ties or the planned meeting in September between US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The Trump administration has launched two major Section 301 probes: a forced labour investigation involving 60 countries and an excess capacity inquiry targeting 16 nations.
China's new law on "Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress" came into effect on July 1. Article 63 of the new law codifies Beijing’s long-standing practices of transnational repression of religious and ethnic minority diasporas, such as Uyghurs and Tibetans. The law states that all ethnic groups form a single historical community united by “shared” territory, history, culture, and political future.
Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and deliver a keynote address. It will be his first in-person appearance at the annual event since it was launched in 2018. The four-day conference will be held alongside a high-level meeting on global AI governance.
The 2026 Beijing summit was about the future of Taiwan and the structure of U.S.-China relations in the Indo-Pacific. For Beijing, the commercial agreements reached during the summit represented a strategic effort to influence Washington’s posture toward the Taiwan Strait. For decades, the United States has maintained a policy of strategic ambiguity toward Taiwan. President Trump suggested a more openly transactional approach toward the issue. Trump has paused $14 billion in arms sales to Taiwan.
The Association of Foreign Correspondents in China (FCCC) has presented its annual survey on the situation of reporters in China. According to the survey, working conditions for journalists in China "usually" or "almost never" meet international standards. 89 of the 176 members responded to questions from the FCCC. FCCC was founded in 1981 at the request of the Chinese government. Chinese authorities warned journalists not to join or be closely associated with the club.
Xi will be the keynote speaker at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on Friday. The most senior speaker in the past was Premier Li Qiang. Expect to hear about the Global AI Governance Initiative and China's approach to helping the world benefit from AI.
Y UEYANG in Hunan province is famous for its tower, an elegant three-story pavilion immortalised in millennium-old prose still memorised by schoolchildren. The streets around the tower are an ambitious project to revitalise the city and represent a new turn in China’s economic management as officials try to ease fiscal straits by squeezing more out of state assets.
Overseas investors increased their exposure to China's advanced manufacturing and technology companies under the mainland-Hong Kong Stock Connect scheme to a record high of 3.13 trillion yuan (US$461.65 billion) by the end of June. Technology and advanced manufacturing companies account for seven of the 10 largest foreign-held A-share positions in China.
Stratechery Plus gives you access to the subscriber-only Stratechery Update, the Sharp Tech, Sharp China, Dithering, Greatest of All Talk, and Asianometry podcasts. It costs $15 per month or $150 per year. All subscriptions auto-renew monthly/annually and can be cancelled at any time.
Some Chinese immigrants in the U.S. are loyal to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The Party uses local associations and chambers of commerce abroad as intermediaries to exert pressure on business interests in China. The United Front Work Department has come close to monopolizing traditional Chinese-language media and WeChat groups overseas. Taiwan's National Security Bureau has identified two core goals behind the Party's cognitive warfare targeting Chinese Americans. Trump marked America’s 250th anniversary with blunt warnings about communism.
The ongoing US tariff investigations against China and Washington’s other trading partners are unlikely to significantly impair bilateral ties or the planned meeting in September between US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The Trump administration has launched two major Section 301 probes: a forced labour investigation involving 60 countries and an excess capacity inquiry targeting 16 nations.
China's new law on "Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress" came into effect on July 1. Article 63 of the new law codifies Beijing’s long-standing practices of transnational repression of religious and ethnic minority diasporas, such as Uyghurs and Tibetans. The law states that all ethnic groups form a single historical community united by “shared” territory, history, culture, and political future.
Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and deliver a keynote address. It will be his first in-person appearance at the annual event since it was launched in 2018. The four-day conference will be held alongside a high-level meeting on global AI governance.