Xi Jinping By the Numbers
Ten years after Xi Jinping ascended to China’s top leadership position, the Chinese Communist Party is a party remade. More than at any point in...
Illusions of Control
Public messaging that Xi Jinping is further consolidating power at the 20th Party Congress would make a financial crisis in China more probable.
Coal Comeback?
Following a summer of power shortages, Beijing is sending mixed messages about the role of coal in China's energy mix.
How Xi Jinping Can Strengthen the Chinese Economy
The Chinese leader needs to improve the policy making process.
Jessica Chen Weiss on Stepping Back from the Brink
The academic talks about creating a vision for the U.S. that isn't defined by beating China; why the repudiation of engagement went too far; and...
China’s Trillion Dollar Holding
Fears that China’s U.S. Treasury holdings are a vulnerability are often overblown.
America’s Brain Drain
A new study finds that Chinese academics are departing the United States at an accelerating pace.
The Tragedy of Taiwan’s Success
Six decades after first spending time in Taiwan, Orville Schell recently went back for a visit and was struck by how much the island has...
Xi’s Economic Fumbles
The Chinese economy is in its worst shape in recent memory — and most of its problems can be directly or indirectly attributed to Xi...
Ash Carter on the Pentagon’s Lonely Pivot to Asia
The former Secretary of Defense talks about what went wrong during the 'rebalancing' effort; Xi Jinping's big mistake with ethnocentrism; and the 'Great Firewall of...
Is The Sino-Russia Relationship Cracking?
A careful examination of recent events should discourage any wishful thinking that Beijing is distancing itself from Moscow.
Transforming the Economics and Governance of Water
Water-related crises around the world have shown that current systems of governance and economic organization are unsuited for a world altered by global warming.