“There has been no news of these classmates since they went missing in August. No one, whether family or lawyers, has been allowed to see them. Where they are being held, what they have suffered, we don’t have a clue,” one of the friends said.

U.S. universities unplug from China's Huawei under pressure from Trump reut.rs/2Mu0T1Q

Allow me to summarize: China pressured Refinitiv to censor Reuters Tiananmen coverage, leaving Eikon platform users around the world – not just those in China – unable to see stories. No notice was given. reuters.com/article/us-chi…

Carlos Barria of Reuters is one of the best photographers in China. Saw him at work in North Korea. reut.rs/10xatSZ

With eye on U.S., China to revamp top tier of diplomats: sources reut.rs/2CKHjb7 by Benjamin Kang Lim & Bai Bin

A comparison of People's Daily front pages following the selection of leaders following both the new Party Congress (left) and National People's Congress (right). Xi has an oversized role, literally.

There are reports that China has offered to buy more semiconductors from the US (& less from South Korea and Taiwan) to address its bilateral surplus (cnbc.com/2018/03/26/chi…). Read here why I think this kind of arrangement would be a bad deal for the US: csis.org/analysis/survi….