The High Costs of Disengagement for China
Disengagement will impede growth, increase business costs, and raise prices for everyone in the West. But the economy that loses the most may be China’s.
Lawrence Summers on the Principles of a Multipolar System
The lionized economist talks about alternatives and counterfactuals in the U.S.-China relationship; the lessons from both the Japanese and Russian experiences; and why truculence is...
The Inflationary Consequences of Deglobalization
Globalization previously made it easier for major central banks to pursue and maintain low inflation.
The Adaptation Advantage
China is mobilizing to adapt and thrive in a rapidly warming world. Under Xi Jinping, the country has undertaken thousands of projects — across industries...
Shutting Out Windows
In June, Beijing launched its latest attempt to come up with an indigenous rival to Microsoft Windows. Can it work?
Bonnie Glaser on What Deters China vs. What Provokes China
The scholar talks about why a U.S. trade agreement with Taiwan is justified; Xi Jinping's Taiwan timeline; and how to change China's cost-benefit calculus, not...
The State of Space
Questions are mounting over whether Beijing and Washington can agree on basic rules for them to operate peacefully in the cosmos.
KOL Crackdown
A closer look at the world of China's influencers after the online disappearance of three of China’s best known Key Opinion Leaders.
Is Taiwan the Next Ukraine?
Chinese forces may well have to land in Taiwan before the world finds out whether the U.S. is willing to defend the island militarily. But...
Matthew Pottinger on Flipping the U.S.-China Paradigm on its Head
A key figure in the Trump administration, the former reporter and Marine talks about the reality of the Chinese Communist Party's ambitions, the value of...
Peace with Chinese Characteristics
Xi Jinping's 'Global Security Initiative' got a test run at last week's Horn of Africa conference.
China’s Lessons from Russia’s War
For Xi Jinping, the events in Ukraine won’t fundamentally alter China's grand historical ascent.