Zongyuan Zoe Liu is a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Maurice R. Greenberg Fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her latest book is Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions (Harvard University Press, 2023).
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Reflections of the crains and cargo ships are visible in a reflection in the segmented panoramic windows of a moored ship. The ships are piled high with shipping containers in various colors, and a hazy sky is visible above them.
A man with gray hair and glasses looks down at his cell phone as he sits in a chair in front of a storefront crowded with shelves of cables, motorized saws, and other hardware-type supplies.
Four retired Chinese men sit on a bench outside an apartment complex for pensioners in Beijing. They wear sunglasses, hats, and comfortable clothing, and two of them hold walking canes.
This aerial photo taken on September 26, 2022 shows an image welcoming the 20th Communist Party Congress, created by growing red sorghum, in a field in Hangzhou, in China's eastern Zhejiang province.
An employee wears a protective mask as he sits in the showroom of an Apple store in Beijing after it closed on Feb. 1, 2020, during the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak.
In this screengrab from video obtained by Reuters, demonstrators hold up signs during a protest over the freezing of deposits by some rural-based banks outside a People's Bank of China building in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China, on July 10. Text in foreground reads, "Henan Bank, return to us our legal deposits! The people's life-saving deposits!"
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