Following China's harsh covid lockdowns, its economy bounced back quicker than most Western economies and appeared to return to pre-Covid normalcy. However, the affects from Covid, and the West's reaction to a more emboldened China, may not have been realized so immediately. Today, China's economy is hurting and its markets are experiencing brutal competition. For those companies that have survived it all, they are barely staying afloat. Tune in to understand what it all means for the future of China-U.S. relations.

Xi Jinping's rule has left China in a place much different from where its trajectory seemed to be taking it. However, this change is not a departure from the way the CCP wants to govern China; rather, it is a revival. Tune in to listen why.

The West continues to incorrectly view the Chinese people as separate from the CCP, expressing views that convey a feeble, weak, and oppressed people. But in reality, the opposite is true. How do Chinese people really view their government? And is there anything that Westerners can compare it with? The largest atheist country in the world may not lack what organized religion provides to people, after all.

China's continued efforts to replace the dollar with the yuan as the world's trade currency falls in line with its ambitions for global primacy. However, there is more to the picture beneath the surface. Why wouldn't the yuan replace the dollar? And what is the real source of power to the valuation of currency? Tune in to find out.

China was, no doubt, a rapidly developing nation with great potential until Xi Jinping took power. Since his rule, China has estranged old allies, lost the trust it once enjoyed from the international business community, and focuses on regional security over prosperity. However, these facts are unknown to most people, especially the youth, living outside of China. Seeking to export its "splinternet" model of control in the digital sphere abroad, many in the world are seeing China in a new light. But how, and why it does this, is only being discussed on The Sinofile!

What started the infamous Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing? What events led to this bloody day that most people connect with the "tank man" video that we remember so vividly? 36 years ago on the day of this recording, June 4th 1989, a nationwide protest was brewing that the CCP feared could topple the regime. Its response and efforts to erase this day from the public speaks volumes about its insecurity and greatest fear: the power of the masses.

Since its economic rise, China has been sending hundreds of thousands of its youth to study in the United States every year. That may be ending soon. The Department of State will be implementing new vetting standards for potential Chinese students wanting to study in the United States. Who are these young people? What do they want? How does the CCP view them? In this episode, I discuss how Chinese students in the United States have been manipulated and used by the CCP to benefit China's development, and what the State Department's new policy could mean about the U.S.'s resolve to thwart China.

What is going on in the South China Sea? Earlier this week, China and the Philippines clashed in disputed waters again, demonstrating China's resolve to defend what it claims as its sovereign territory. As the ASEAN annual summit approaches, unless it is willing to discuss and ultimately address relating to the South China Sea with Beijing, it will become a fully militarized zone for Chinese posturing and expansionism.

History does not live in the past; rather, it is well alive in the present. The CCP often references the "Century of Humiliation," when foreign powers occupied China and disgraced its sovereignty in order to create unity and control the narrative among Chinese citizens today. Of the Eight nations that occupied China during this era, its closest neighbor, Japan, wrecked the most havoc on China. How has Japan tried to build reconciliation with China today and how does it impact modern Chinese politics?

What has contributed to China's decades of impressively high levels of safety? In this episode, I analyze what those factors are and how under increasing economic instability, China is becoming less safe.