BEIJING, Nov 7 (Reuters) – One of the few independently funded English-language publications to cover China in depth for Western audiences, "The China Project", is to close because of a lack of funding, its editor-in-chief, Jeremy Goldkorn, wrote in a post. The China Project, which began as a newsletter in 2016 and was formerly known as SupChina, expanded to become a "news and business intelligence company focused on helping a global audience understand China", it says on its website. Its products included the popular China news and society-themed Sinica podcast, articles on a wide range of China-themed topics on its…