It may seem preposterous to suggest that the outbreak of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, has imperiled the rule of the Communist Party of China (CPC),...
An outbreak of a new coronavirus that began in the Chinese city of Wuhan has already infected over 4,000 people - mostly in China, but also in several other...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to order the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, Iran’s most powerful military commander, has raised the specter, albeit...
China’s strongman leader can’t seem to catch a break. From the trade war with the United States to the crisis in Hong Kong to international criticism of his...
Although the rapid escalation of violence in Hong Kong seems terrifying enough, things may be about to get much worse. The communique of the recently...
The Chinese folk saying “lift a rock only to drop it on one’s own feet,” or its English equivalent - “to shoot oneself in the foot” - perfectly describes the...
On Oct. 1, to mark the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic, Chinese President Xi Jinping will deliver a speech that unreservedly celebrates the...
The crisis in Hong Kong appears to be careening toward a devastating climax. With China’s government now using rhetoric reminiscent of that which preceded the...
Of all the changes in U.S. foreign policy President Donald Trump’s administration has made, the most consequential is the adoption of a confrontational stance...
China’s progress toward an open society ended when the People’s Liberation Army slaughtered at least hundreds, if not thousands, of peaceful demonstrators in...
Lou Jiwei may not be a household name in the West, but the former Chinese finance minister is well-known and highly respected among financiers and economic...
It is convenient to call the escalating geopolitical contest between the United States and China a “new cold war.” But that description should not be allowed...
As Chinese and American trade negotiators meet in Washington to try to forge an accord on trade, observers are largely focused on the countries’ economic...
The unfolding geopolitical contest between China and the United States has been described by many as a new cold war. If it ever becomes a hot one, the flash...
Since the Cold War ended, the West has invested huge amounts of resources in efforts to induce political liberalization in China, including through programs...
The escalating trade feud between the United States and China is increasingly viewed as the opening campaign of a new cold war. But this clash of titans,...
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...