When the Soviet Union imploded in 1991, the Communist Party of China became obsessed with understanding why. The government think tanks entrusted with this...
Politics has a nasty habit of surprising us – especially in a country like China, where there is little transparency and a lot of intrigue. Five months ago,...
For most observers of the unfolding trade war between the United States and China, the casus belli is the convergence of China’s unfair trade practices with...
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un says the United States will pay a “thousandfold for all the heinous crimes” it has committed against his country. U.S....
The relatively sudden death of Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, amounted to a great loss. It also sent a strong...
When U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership this past January, many observers saw that decision as a boon...
The Cold War ended in December 1991, when the Soviet Union disintegrated. The post-Cold War era ended in November 2016, when Donald Trump won the United...
Official Chinese media are having a field day touting the dysfunction of Western democracies. Between the British vote to “Brexit” the European Union and the...
The abolition of China’s 35-year-old one-child policy closes one of the darkest chapters in the country’s history. In the late 1970s, the Chinese Communist...
Distinguishing diplomatic rhetoric from official policy is never easy. But it is especially difficult in China, where the government’s actions so often fail...
China’s current economic slowdown has no shortage of causes: Europe’s financial turmoil, sputtering recovery in the United States, and weak...
Henry Kissinger, who learned a thing or two about political paranoia as President Richard Nixon’s national security adviser and secretary of state,...
When U.S. President Richard Nixon embarked on his historic trip to China 40 years ago, he could not have imagined what his gamble would unleash. The immediate...