Students from the Global Business Journalism program joined diplomats and foreign experts in a four-day visit to Inner Mongolia’s Jungar Banner area to study how China’s county-level development is being communicated to global audiences.

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, said media coverage of international relations is dominated by superficial reports and stereotypes that rarely explore the underlying causes of events and often simplify the perceptions of countries a

The 2024 Future Close-Up Tour is focused on exploring China's technological innovations. The diverse group came from more than 20 countries.