China’s Pro-Growth Happy Talk

China cannot hide the COVID death toll from its people

Smartphones, internet and urban living rule out repeat of Mao's famine cover-up

China’s ‘zero-COVID’ muddle

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – China has lately experienced its largest and most politically charged protests since the pro-democracy movement in 1989...

China’s Zero-COVID Muddle

Xi Jinping has a tough decision to make on China's COVID protests

Ending lockdowns and cracking down would both have high costs

Will China prove the doomsayers wrong?

ATHENS – The new leadership team selected by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China failed to...

Will China Prove the Doomsayers Wrong?

China will not overpower U.S. if it keeps losing efficiency

Washington is exploiting key vulnerabilities with trade and tech decoupling

Blowing Down the CPC’s House of Cards

China's Communist Party congress is not just about Xi Jinping

Event will set the tone for economic and foreign policy for the next decade

Beijing’s Mikhail Gorbachev phobia

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – There was a time when well-meaning, if not wishful-thinking, Westerners thought that “China’s Gorbachev” was the...

China’s Gorbachev Phobia

China's Communist Party needs to face its talent challenge

Congress appointments will show whether loyalty remains the top priority

The coming Taiwan crisis

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s arrival in Taiwan has incited a predictably strong response from China. Chinese...

The Coming Taiwan Crisis

Pelosi's Taiwan trip should not be a cause for war

With restraint, Beijing, Washington and Taipei can contain political fallout

How can America come out the victor in a new ‘cold war’?

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – U.S. President Joe Biden has framed America’s confrontation with China and Russia as an open-ended contest between...

China's debt bomb looks ready to explode

Many warning signs suggesting that a debt reckoning is imminent