George Chen

Taiwan president cancels trip after African countries close airspace bbc.in/48gYNxr

联合国中文日快乐！ Monday is Chinese Language Day! Chinese has more than 1.3 billion speakers and is one of the UN's six official languages. See how to get updates about the work of the UN in Chinese: un.org/zh/get-involve…

Taiwan overtook the UK in stock market value — making it the world's seventh largest — as tech firms regained favor. Read more: bloom.bg/4tklyc8 📷️: An Rong Xu/Bloomberg

One night in Beijing…

Over the past 12 months, a wave of elite engineering and scientific talent has returned from the US to Chinese shores. ft.trib.al/XcEAlVV

Today marks the 55th anniversary of Ping-Pong Diplomacy. It was the first step in thawing decades of disconnect between the U.S. and China and it paved the way for President Nixon’s historic 1972 visit.

Janet Yellen is coming to Hong Kong for this HSBC event soon as keynote speaker

To me, the most important point is that Xi is inviting the KMT leader just before the Trump summit. Xi is positioning himself to appear reasonable on the Taiwan issue and, by inference, that Trump should also be "reasonable." Not just symbolism: What the KMT chair’s China trip signals for Beijing, Washington and Taipei channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/kmt-…

What this latest fossil fuel war proves is that China’s strategy to become the world’s 1st Electrostate was, in hindsight, the ultimate realpolitik move and a masterstroke of strategic planning The scale is staggering: >China’s electricity consumption exceeds that of the EU, Russia, India, and Japan put TOGETHER >China's electricity use is up 7.7x since 2000 >30% of China's final energy is already electric: US/EU have stalled at ~20% for a decade while China surged from 5% >China's wind and solar = 50% of installed capacity by end of 2026 >China plowed $800b into the transition in 2025 alone (35% of the global total) >China's "New Three", EVs, batteries and solar, generated $1.9 trillion in value in 2024 alone - about the GDP of Australia China is winning the race for energy supremacy

The world’s most expensive petrol - Hong Kong ⛽️

Japan is preparing for the worst. Taiwan is just preparing excuses s.nikkei.com/4bQMAAk

My good friend and @FT partner in crime in #Taiwan @KathrinHille has retired. She had an amazing career reporting over the years from Taipei, Beijing & Moscow. Huge thanks to her for being an amazing teammate!

China chip sector targets 80% self-sufficiency with US in its sights Asian giant's ambitions include creating homegrown version of Dutch lithography giant ASML s.nikkei.com/4lU2bDK

There is a lot of churn in Washington about America's approach to Taiwan. As US struggles to deal militarily with Iran, this churn will intensify. Tucker Carlson's comments below reflect one viewpoint. To explore this debate further, join us next Monday: brookings.edu/events/cross-s…

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.@DNIGabbard: "The IC assesses that China is the most capable competitor in the field of artificial intelligence…It will be critical to ensure that humans remain in control of how AI is used…AI adoption at scale across the spectrum of usage poses serious risks."

Beijing can wait. Taipei can’t. Trump’s postponed China visit adds more pressure across the Taiwan Strait. My take: georgechen.substack.com/p/trumps-china…

I recently wrote a Substack piece outlining three possible scenarios for Trump’s China trip, but as the old saying goes, one day is already too long in politics. Over the past 48 hours, new signals from Beijing suggest that the likelihood of Trump proceeding with the visit may actually be much higher than the chance of him changing his mind and staying in the White House. My new piece: georgechen.substack.com/p/to-go-or-not…

Trump’s long-awaited China trip is suddenly uncertain after the latest Iran strike. Here are the three possible scenarios for Trump’s long awaited visit to China – or not? Read my latest Substack post: georgechen.substack.com/p/three-possib…

Food accounted for 17.2% of household consumption in China last year, according to new data. The equivalent figure for America was less than 8%. What does this reveal about China? economist.com/finance-and-ec…