More Lawyers, Better Case Outcomes? Evidence from the "Lawyers for All"
Yuhao Wu, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Criminology, UPenn
Providing indigent defendants with publicly financed lawyers is a worldwide practice. China developed a “lawyers for all” program to expand the provision of legal counsel to indigent defendants. Guangdong is among…
The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage
Mara Hvistendahl, Investigative Journalist
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China and COVID-19: A CSCC Roundtable Discussion
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The World Today: Will COVID-19 Infect the U.S.-China Relationship?
As both the Chinese Communist Party and the U.S. government have bungled their responses to the outbreak and blamed each other for the growing pandemic, what will COVID-19 mean for U.S.-China relations and what…
The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World
Dexter Roberts, Reporter and U.S.-China Political, Economics and Business Relations Specialist
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The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journey with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China
Frank Langfitt, NPR London Correspondent
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(Cancelled) Globalization of China’s Social Media Apps: The Cases of WeChat and TikTok
Eric Harwit, Professor of Asian Studies, University of Hawaii
The Chinese social media mobile apps WeChat and TikTok each have global subscriber numbers of one billion or more. However, the vast…
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Power Projects: Insights into Environmental and Debt Sustainability
Erica Downs, Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University
Why are China and Pakistan building so many coal-fired power plants as part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (…
From Partner to Bully: Shifting Employment Conditions in Walmart, China
Eileen Otis, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon
Eileen Otis is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. She is the author of the…
