I haven’t written about China’s tourism imports for a while. Suffice to say they remain a puzzle. To recap quickly, China’s reported imports of tourism soared in 2014 and 2015—with imports of touris…

Hong Kong is not Beijing, 2014 is not 1989, and Civic Square is not Tiananmen Square. Still, the images of tens of thousands of Hong Kong Chinese demonstrating in the streets for democratic reform ca…

As protests have mounted in Hong Kong, with a possible violent resolution in sight, the U.S. Consulate in the SAR has done little more than issue tepid statements on the demonstrations, which had bee…

Kong Qingdong has gone viral. The Peking University professor of literature and descendant of Confucius has become an overnight celebrity with his televised rant against Hong Kong. In a televised int…

The jump in China’s imports from Hong Kong has generated a bit of attention recently. Monthly imports have gone from around $1 billion this time last year to around $3 billion. It is very reasonable…

UN passes AI resolution; DOJ sues Apple; Google demonstrates new AI system; Supreme Court hears Murthy v. Missouri arguments; Secretary of State Blinken announces new information resilience initiativ…