People walk past a billboard promoting the annual "Singles Day" on Nov. 11, the biggest shopping day of the year, at a shopping mall complex in Beijing on Nov. 10, 2021. Jade Gao/AFP via Getty Images
As this year comes to an end, Beijing will be both uncertain and concerned about what is to come in 2022.
He Qinglian
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He Qinglian is a prominent Chinese author and economist. Currently based in the United States, she authored “China’s Pitfalls,” which concerns corruption in China’s economic reform of the 1990s, and “The Fog of Censorship: Media Control in China,” which addresses the manipulation and restriction of the press. She regularly writes on contemporary Chinese social and economic issues.