Jacob Dreyer

Jacob Dreyer is an editor and contributing writer for Noema based in Shanghai.


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September 30, 2024
China's efforts to decarbonize are upending a world economy dependent on the petrodollar and, in the process, restructuring the U.S.-led world.
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June 11, 2024
China’s youthful urbanization changed the world. What will happen as the country ages and slows down?
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February 1, 2024
A China that is just a family of Han people would be a limited nation. But a China that is an ideology could encompass people all across...
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October 5, 2023
The Chinese government believes advanced technological engineering can solve ecological and economic problems. The Soviets thought so too.
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July 13, 2023
China’s diplomats and tech companies pin their hopes on partnerships in the Global South.
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March 30, 2023
China is undergoing a risky transformation of its economic structure, deceptively using the language of Marxism to realign itself toward so...
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January 26, 2023
The pandemic woke China’s young people up to the reality that their society is oriented to the values and priorities of the elderly, whos...
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October 20, 2022
China’s leaders are building a new economy oriented to state-driven technological solutions to the climate crisis. In the process, they aim to construct an entirely d...
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August 18, 2022
For decades, America gave China a vision of future prosperity. But today, America has mostly ceased to offer a model for China or anywhe...
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May 10, 2022
Young people all over China, fed up with city life, are searching for new ways of life amid old traditions in undeveloped rural parts of t...
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February 1, 2022
Previous generations of Chinese scientists pursued their work in foreign countries. Today, having learned that the U.S. doesn’t want them, they are building their own...
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September 2, 2021
China has found a compelling new reason to align around a common purpose to keep the Chinese Communist Party in power: the climate crisi...