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.
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...