Ella Apostoaie

1 week ago | buff.ly | Ella Apostoaie

Face-Off: U.S. vs. ChinaA podcast about the turbulent relationship between the world's two superpowers, the two men who run them, and the vital issues that affect us all. US Ambassador Nicholas Burns recently served in Beijing for three years. In this episode of Face-Off: US vs. China, host Jane Perlez talks to Burns about how he got Americans out of Chinese jails, how security operatives stopped American cultural groups from performing, and how China agreed to limits on AI in nuclear weapons.

1 week ago | thewirechina.com | Ella Apostoaie

Good evening. Meet Elbridge Colby, the preppy high prince of “the prioritizers”. He is a powerful friend of Taiwan and foe of China, determined to contain America’s greatest geopolitical rival even if it means withdrawing U.S. support for Ukraine and letting Iran develop its own nuclear capabilities. This does not mean Colby and his fellow prioritizers support Vladimir Putin’s imperial invasions of his neighbors or the Iranian government’s mischief-making across the Middle East.

1 week ago | thewirechina.com | Ella Apostoaie |Brent Crane

Face-Off: U.S. vs. ChinaA podcast about the turbulent relationship between the world's two superpowers, the two men who run them, and the vital issues that affect us all. US Ambassador Nicholas Burns recently served in Beijing for three years. In this episode of Face-Off: US vs. China, host Jane Perlez talks to Burns about how he got Americans out of Chinese jails, how security operatives stopped American cultural groups from performing, and how China agreed to limits on AI in nuclear weapons.

1 week ago | thewirechina.com | Ella Apostoaie |Yu Yongding

Chinese Finance Secretary Lan Fo'an (left) and Vice Minister of Finance Liao Min (right) attend a plenary session of the G20 Development Committee during the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings, Washington, D.C., April 24, 2025. Credit: Sipa via AP Images In the years following the 2008 global financial crisis, bold stimulus measures enabled China to achieve a V-shaped recovery.

1 week ago | cnas.org | Ella Apostoaie

Illustration by Luis Grañena Some years ago, Elbridge “Bridge” Colby, the newly christened top policy official in the U.S. Department of Defense, met a People’s Liberation Army officer in Beijing and asked him whom he believed was the greatest Chinese leader.