For all their bluster, China’s leaders are deeply anxious about the emerging order in Afghanistan, which could threaten the region’s stability and enable jihadi terror to spill over into China’s restive western regions, which are home to large Muslim populations. Read More Here
China’s domestic situation must be watched very closely in the year to come, before Xi is elevated to Mao status by the next Party congress. We should not discount the rationality of many of the new rules being introduced. Read More Here
In a country that regularly censors opposing viewpoints, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s push for “common prosperity” has triggered something unusual: A spirited public policy debate. Read More Here
For members of China’s red aristocracy, the problem isn’t billionaires—it’s billionaires they’re not related to. The new rich of the 1980s onward often scrabbled to build connections to powerful families, like the relatives of Gen. Ye Jianying, for exactly this reason. Read More Here
The Chinese economy continued to lose steam in July as key economic data for the start of the third quarter fell short of expectations, although not all economists have leapt to trim their full-year growth forecasts, with some saying there is still room for further monetary easing. Read More Here
Bareknuckles diplomacy is Chinese Communists’ method of choice for fulfilling such goals. And they have the mindset for it. Diplomacy is war without bloodshed for them, while there can never be too much deception in martial undertakings. Read More Here
After more than a decade, President Xi Jinping returned to Lhasa, leading a delegation to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the administrative and religious capital of the Tibet autonomous region. Read More Here
China has unquestionably studied the Japanese ordeal to find out which policies work and which don’t. Unfortunately, Japan’s economy has been stationary for about three decades, so there is not much help coming from that side. Read More Here
The Chinese Communist Party’s long-term strategic objective is to displace the United States as the world’s most powerful country and create a new world order favourable to China’s authoritarian brand of politics, or its “socialist market economy.” Read More Here
China’s multilevel construction drive within Bhutan has gone almost completely unnoticed by the outside world. Bhutan must know, and other governments in the region are likely to be aware that China is active on Bhutan’s northern borders but may not have realized the full extent of that activity or have chosen to remain silent. Read […]
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