For Chinese President Xi Jinping, a Marxist-Leninist dialectician, the events in Ukraine won’t fundamentally alter China’s grand historical ascent. As a cautionary tale, Russia’s military failures will simply impel China’s leadership to make even more substantial preparations before seizing Taiwan. Read More Here
Chinese policymakers are increasingly convinced that the United States is determined to implement a full-fledged strategy of containment against China. Read More Here
If China goes ahead with an invasion of Taiwan, regardless of whether China officially considers it an invasion, it could have a substantial impact on global trade. Read More Here
Why does China neither endorse nor condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war? The answer lies in what has become the first principle of Chinese foreign policy: distrust of the United States. Read More Here
Chinese President Xi Jinping has picked a border fight that he cannot win, and transformed a previously conciliatory India into a long-term foe. This amounts to an even bigger miscalculation than Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s failure to see it coming. Read More Here
Officials in Washington and Beijing don’t agree on much these days, but there is one thing on which they see eye to eye: the contest between their two countries will enter a decisive phase in the 2020s. Read More Here
Also, like Putin, Xi had seen for himself what happened when a communist regime lost power. Xi was a mid-ranking party official in the southeastern province of Fujian when he watched the Soviet Union collapse. Read More Here
China’s full-scale lockdown of Shanghai, the country’s largest urban economy, will have far-reaching economic and social costs. More than just a public-health measure, the move should be interpreted as a reassertion of centralized control and a partial reversal of the devolution of power that took root after 1978. Read More Here
For decades, Chinese leaders thought they knew the man who would become America’s 46th president. But he was changing all along. Read More Here
Any country that rises as impressively as China is bound to make fools of some prophets of decline along the way. In recent decades, Beijing has repeatedly confounded those who predicted it was about to hit the wall. Read More Here
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