Jeremy Goldkorn

2 weeks ago | chinafile.com | Joseph Torigian |Jeremy Goldkorn

Joseph Torigian discusses the life of Xi Jinping’s father, Xi Zhongxun, and how his legacy shapes the worldview of one of the world’s most powerful leaders today. Torigian’s new book, The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping, examines the elder Xi’s role as a revolutionary and early leader in the Chinese Communist Party. The book, due to be published in June, is the first English-language biography of Xi Zhongxun.

3 weeks ago | thechinaweek.com | Jeremy Goldkorn

This is The China Week, a succinct roundup and analysis of what happened in the People’s Republic in the last seven days. The China Week is free for the next few weeks—please subscribe here if this was forwarded to you, or give a subscription as a gift. Other things I worked on this week: What Even Is Trump’s China Strategy? A ChinaFile Conversation with Wendy Cutler, Michael Hirson, Lizzi C. Lee, Isabel Hilton, Andrew Polk, and Arthur R.

1 month ago | rhymingchaos.com | Jeremy Goldkorn

Donald Trump likes to insult Venezuela and its people. But Trump has a lot in common with Hugo Chávez, the strongman who ruled Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013, and is often blamed for the once-prosperous country’s turn away from democracy, and decline into poverty. In this episode of Rhyming Chaos, we discuss what the U.S. can learn from Venezuela with Parsifal D’Sola, a Venezuelan and advisor in 2019 to the country’s interim government.

1 month ago | thechinaweek.com | Jeremy Goldkorn

This is The China Week, a succinct roundup of what happened in the world’s other superpower in the last seven days. The China Week is free for the next few weeks—subscribe here if this was forwarded to you. Other things I worked on this week at ChinaFile: Former Chinese Enemies Increasingly Aligned on Taiwan by Chris Horton, and U.S.-Soviet Détente and the Future of U.S.-China Relations by Christopher Chivvis.

2 months ago | thechinaweek.com | Jeremy Goldkorn

This is The China Week, a succinct roundup of what happened in the world’s other superpower in the last week. The China Week is free for the next few weeks—subscribe here if this was forwarded to you. —Jeremy GoldkornChina's annual political gathering—the Two Sessions—closed today after a week and a half of drama-free assurances from the government on China’s future. These are the key signals from various reports and speeches: This year’s GDP growth target is around 5%.