Michael McFaul on Autocrats vs. Democrats
The academic and former U.S. ambassador to Russia talks about the contrasts between Putin and Xi, and what Washington can do about their relationship with each other.
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Montana in the Middle
From Mike Mansfield to Max Baucus and Steve Daines, Montana has been the unlikely source of America’s most influential China-hand senators over the past half-century. But amidst spy balloons, trade wars and mutual paranoia, being a proponent for rational and beneficial relations between the two...
Nicholas Eftimiades on Why the U.S. Doesn’t Get Spying on China Right
The former CIA officer says Washington has lacked a clear strategy towards intelligence on China, in contrast to Beijing’s approach — and that Congress needs to act.
Alex Wang on What China Gets Right — and Wrong — on the Environment
The academic talks about whether China’s experience shows there can be such a thing as ‘good environmental authoritarianism’, and what the U.S. could learn from its approach to green policy.
Geremie Barmé on the ‘Other China’
The historian and sinologist talks about his life studying China and what he calls Xi Jinping’s ‘Empire of Tedium’.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom on Tackling Misconceptions about China
The author and historian discusses the multitude of facets and the contrasts between Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping.
Jonathan Cheng on the Religion behind the Kim Family’s Rule Over North Korea
The Wall Street Journal’s China bureau chief discusses the role of Christianity in shaping Kim Il Sung’s personality cult, and talks about life now as a foreign reporter in Beijing.
Michael Luo on the Story of Chinese Immigrants in the U.S.
The writer and editor talks about the first arrivals from China and the long history of prejudice the community has faced.
China in Latin America: Speak Softly and Spend Freely
Can Donald Trump’s corollary to James Monroe and Teddy Roosevelt’s Latin American policies counter China’s more patient and better-funded approach across the region?
J. Michael Cole on the Best and Worse Cases for Taiwan’s Future
The policy analyst discusses why it's so important for the world to stand by Taiwan, and what outsiders often get wrong about its situation.
Fight of the Century
If Xi Jinping orders the People’s Liberation Army to take Taiwan by force, can the island turn itself into a porcupine and muster wholesale “societal resistance” from its 23 million people? Brent Crane reports from Taipei.
A Bitter Harvest
Agriculture has traditionally been a fruitful area for China-U.S. cooperation, dating back to the two countries’ resumption of diplomatic relations in the 1970s. Now it is just another area marked by Sino-American distrust, as Washington hunts Chinese agriscience “spies” and Beijing races to reduce reliance...