China Briefs: The Perils of the US-China National Security Agendas
Is China a strategic competitor or adversary to the United States? To assess this question we must examine intent and...
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Can China’s Popular Nationalism Break the China-Russia Alliance?
After a century and a half in decline, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) believes it has the historical responsibility to...
Gulf Peace: China’s Progress and U.S. Standstill
While US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was visiting the Middle East, delegations from Iran and Saudi Arabia secretly visited Beijing and...
Perspective | Being Ethnically Ambiguous in a Race-Fueled America
No one I’ve met has ever been able to guess my race correctly. Not that it’s a competition, or that...
China, Money Can’t Buy You Love
The American political scientist Joseph Nye once said: "A country may obtain the outcomes it wants in world politics because...
China’s Political Awakening Amidst Zero-COVID
For three years, the CCP’s zero-COVID policy in the aftermath of the Wuhan outbreak has included mass lockdowns, excessive testings,...
China Is Lagging – The Worst Is Yet To Come
Recently, there has been much debate surrounding whether China can prevent a recession in the upcoming year. In reality, not...
Power Politics in the Arctic: China and India
The melting of the glaciers is changing geopolitical arrangements. In the Arctic, global warming is opening opportunities for the allocation...
Political Theater at the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
Held from October 16 to 22, China’s 20th Party Congress was a series of political spectacles. President Xi Jinping cemented...
China’s Party Congress and the End of Political Competition
When the Chinese Communist Party’s National Congress concludes, it is a ripe time for many observers of Chinese politics to...
