2023 Issue 1

Happy New Year! 

This first issue of 2023 looks at European opinions towards the PRC; the exodus of lawyers and other advocates of the rule of law from Hong Kong; an investigative report by Nikkei Asia on the hyper-nationalist army of online trolls in the PRC that do the Party’s bidding; a report that European and American carmakers are quietly shifting their supply chains out of the PRC; an FT article on the coming ESG crisis for Chinese equities as their metrics rank far below other markets due to gross human rights abuses, continuing environmental harms and the near total lack of transparency and consistency in corporate governance; and lastly an article from the Intercept on hacked Russian files that reveal a Sino-Russian propaganda agreement in which Moscow and Beijing would cooperate on undermining the interests of other countries.