The Yuan’s International Makeover
In a widely overlooked shift, Beijing has started overhauling its approach to RMB internationalization.
Frank Dikötter on Paying Attention to China’s Primary Sources
The historian talks about his new book; why he eschews the sinological armchair; how the architect of modern China is Jiang Zemin, not Deng Xiaoping;...
COSCO’s Many Port Calls
A look at the state-owned maritime giant: how it came to be, its influence over the maritime industry, and why its reach has elicited concern.
The Ocean Edge
With its plans for seabed mining and the "blue economy," China is implementing a strategy for the world's warming oceans. The U.S. is trying to...
Books for the Xi Jinping Era
China's surveillance, spies and unfortunate overreach.
China’s New Leaders and Xi’s Deep Message
Far from elevating 'yes-men,' Xi Jinping focused on trust and experience, which will allow the new PSC to be more effective and more candid.
Cai Xia on How Xi Jinping Overturned the Pillars of Marxism
The CCP insider-turned-dissident talks about how Xi Jinping changed the Central Party School, where she was a teacher, and destroyed the CCP's 'democratic centralism'; how...
Xi Jinping’s Overconcentration of Power
The costs of Xi’s overreach and his lack of power sharing are frustrating members of China’s elite.
Is the Benefit of China’s Zero-COVID Policy Worth the Cost?
The Chinese strategy may be more economically sound than many assume, but it is time for the country to adopt a less severe approach.
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.