Social Justice Americans Should Be Concerned About China’s Latest Privacy Violation China is reportedly importing technology from a company headquartered in the U.S. to surveil supposed subversives in Xinjiang. Massoud Hayoun
Economics How the Chinese Could Disrupt Global Recycling Markets Most Western nations send their unwanted scrap materials to China for reuse, but what happens if China stops accepting the waste? Kate O'Neill
Social Justice Canada’s Indigenous and Environmentalists Warn Against a Potential Trade Deal With China Canadian activists call on their government to consider First Nation and ecological interests over those of multinational corporations. Massoud Hayoun
Environment Inside Myanmar’s Incendiary and Illegal Charcoal Trade A year-long investigation into the multi-million-dollar charcoal market and how it moves from the villages of Myanmar into Chinese smelters. Emmanuel Freudenthal
News in Brief Viewfinder: Communist Party Congress Meets in China Delegates leave after the opening session of the 19th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People on October 18th, 2017, in Beijing, China. Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Here’s How Trump Is Dragging the U.S. to the Brink of War The many potential foreign-policy conflicts facing the Trump administration, ranked. Massoud Hayoun
Field Notes Issue #59: October 2017 Magazine Previous Issues Letter From Gansu Province, China: The Strange Business of Subsidized Yak Insurance In central China's Gansu Province, nomads can buy insurance policies for their sheep and yaks. Will Ford
News in Brief China’s Refusal of North Korean Defectors Is Enabling a Growing Human Rights Crisis Amid international attention on Pyongyang's missile tests, there is another life-threatening crisis emanating from North Korea that few are watching. Phil Robertson
News in Brief Is China Using Interpol to Try to Bring Back Political Dissidents From the U.S.? The extent to which Washington is cooperating with Beijing remains unclear. Massoud Hayoun
News in Brief How Proactive Can We Expect China to Be About North Korea? North Korea and China actually share the same end game: Compel the U.S. to abandon its defense of South Korea. Charles Burton