After President Joe Biden’s final Quad meeting last weekend, Miles Yu gives some background on the multilateral group of nations (which includes the United States, Japan, India, and Australia) and explains its importance in defining and stabilizing the Indo-Pacific. Next, we cover the continued rise of violent xenophobia inside China in light of another stabbing and death, this time of a 10-year-old Japanese schoolboy. Japanese officials, along with Japanese companies in China, are now clearly indicating that they are fed up with the Chinese Communist Party’s culture of fear. Finally, the US Commerce Department officially proposed a new ban on Chinese-made car parts, justifying the move not on economics but national security.
China Insider is a weekly podcast project from Hudson Institute’s China Center, hosted by Miles Yu, who provides weekly news that mainstream American outlets often miss, as well as in-depth commentary and analysis on the China challenge and the free world’s future.