Tsinghua Professor Lee Miller served as the lead media judge for the United Nations' annual speech competition for students in Beijing's Chaoyang District. Among the event organizers was Global Business Journalism alumni Katherin Thouvenin, a GBJ honors-graduate in 2022, in her role as communications assistant at the UN Resident Coordinator's Office in China. More than 4,000 middle- and high...

Beijing, China – On 19 November 2025, Malaysian students from Tsinghua University — including representatives from the Global Business Journalism (GBJ) program under the School of Journalism and Communication (TSJC) and the School of Economics and Management (SEM) — were invited to a luncheon meeting with Princess Tengku Faizwa Razif, a Malaysian princess and member of the Selangor royal fam...

Wu Chen, a journalist, author, and former Managing Director of The Economist Global Business Review, believes the geopolitical story of the coming decades will center on two powers: the United States and China.“The whole global order constructed by the United States after World War II is now in Tetris,” he told students in the Global Business Journalism program's Hot Topics course on Sep...

Shamim Zakaria speaks to Global Business Journalism students in the Hot Topics course. (GBJ photos by Rick Dunham)Journalists too often oversimplify complex geopolitical situations, turning nuanced international disputes into simple binaries of right and wrong, China-based commentator Shamim Zakaria told Global Business Journalism students at Tsinghua University.Zakaria, a native of India ...

The 2025 international graduates celebrate after receiving their certificates.Twenty-seven students from eight nations celebrated their successful completion of the Global Business Journalism program on June 20 in a joyous event at the Tsinghua School of Journalism and Communication.The 2025 commencement celebration marked the graduation of 18 Chinese and nine international students from seven ...

Europe's underperforming economy and the impact of the "Trump factor” continue to serve as a wake-up call for European leaders as U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term office unfolds.Matti Posio, one of the longest-serving journalists in Finland covering international affairs, said Europeans see a ”terrible” second term under President Trump for their continent's already-shaky economy a...