2022 Issue 49

Nathan Gardels writes about what the latest protests in the PRC mean for China’s civil society; Chinese-American activists begin a hunger strike outside the Apple headquarters to protest the company’s complicity with the Chinese Communist Party; Apple signals its plans to shift manufacturing out of the PRC; Germany’s ammunition manufacturers encounter increasingly long supply chain disruptions from the PRC; the CCP signals a loosening of COVID restrictions in the wake of the protests; and Joshua Kurlantzick writes on the growing clout of PRC state media outlets across the world.