5 Events That Shaped China In 2021
6 min read. As China continues to rise as a global powerhouse, it has increasingly attracted scrutiny from the international community. This year, COVID-19 compelled the world’s second largest economy…
Chinese Undergrads Will Determine The Outcome of US-China Arms Race in Artificial Intelligence
5 min read. Much has been speculated on the Arms Race in AI between the United States and China and more specifically on which nation will be the first to…
Common Prosperity: China’s Way of Tackling Social Inequality
5 min read. A slew of regulatory actions in recent months by Beijing have caught Chinese companies and foreign investors by surprise, including unprecedented attempts to clamp down on cryptocurrency…
China’s Olympics Titans and Where They Are Now
7 min read. In recent decades, China has become a formidable force at the Summer Olympics despite its eleventh hour invitation to the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, where the country participated…
China’s Crackdown on Cryptocurrency
5 min read. On Friday, 18 June 2021, Chinese authorities ordered cryptocurrency miners in Sichuan province to shut down their operations, marking the dissolution of one of the biggest bitcoin…
China’s Crackdown on Chinese Tech Companies
5 min read. Earlier this year, China’s antitrust regulators slapped a record fine of US$2.8 billion on e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding in a landmark case. In the months following…
China’s Gen Z: Identity Explorers, Seekers of the Truth
6 min read. In 2020, the oldest of the Generation Z, or Gen Z, who are defined as young people born from 1995 through 2010, hit what must be the…
Mothers in business: Remarkable at work, admirable at home
5 min read. Ever wondered how mothers in business handle the demands of society and their work? Women have long been taking up multiple roles in society, as carers, as…