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What Does China Want?
Stop Discarding Half the Evidence: China’s Peace Rhetoric, Its Red Lines, and How to Read Both.
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Zichen Wang
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China's Three-Decade-Long Marine Summer Fishing Moratorium
A Shift Toward Regional Coordination Is Needed in the Face of Doubts and Opposition from Regional Countries and U.S. Stigmatization
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SCSPI
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Two decade-old, 80-mln-yuan intercity bus stations remain idle in one city, People's Daily reports
The top official newspaper offers a peek into the overbuilt and wasted transportation infrastructure in China's northernmost province.
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Zichen Wang
Xi's speech to private entrepreneurs in Feb 2025 now available
What did Jack Ma, DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng, and BYD's Wang Chuanfu hear from China's top leader?
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Zichen Wang
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Zhang Yuyan on the Trump Administration’s Trade War and the Future of the Global Order
Renowned CASS veteran on how Trump’s negative-sum approach to China fits into a wider contest over rules, resilience, and the shape of world order.
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Yuxuan JIA
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Zhijian YAN
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China Can Help Trump and Putin End the War in Ukraine, Henry Huiyao Wang writes in Foreign Policy
CCG President says seven-party talks in Beijing leading to a U.N.-backed peacekeeping force could help secure peace.
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CCG Update
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Why Every China Watcher Must Be on WeChat
None of this is to glorify WeChat itself – it’s simply the reality of China’s digital ecosystem today.
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Zichen Wang
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Bureaucratic Lapse, Not Bioterror: The Overblown Fungus Smuggling Case
Treating two plant pathologists with no paperwork as though they were biowarfare saboteurs is an exercise in political theater, not prudent security
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Zichen Wang
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Henry Huiyao Wang: China must ensure its green energy leadership is good for the world
CCG President writes in South China Morning Post that the question is not whether China is leading the world but whether it can sell its climate…
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CCG Update
China massively overbuilt high-speed rail, says leading economic geographer
Lu Dadao of the Chinese Academy of Sciences warns that oversized, underused HSR infrastructure has ignored basic economic logic, weakened public…
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Yuxuan JIA
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Xintian Li
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Zhao Huiyi
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Zichen Wang
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U.S. greenlighted H20 chips export on its own initiative, China says
Beijing clarifies its deal with Washington didn't include NVIDIA’s 4th-best AI chip, disputing widely-reported comments by U.S. Commerce Secretary…
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Tang Shiping on The New Landscape of International Political Economy and Economic Development of the Global South
The renowned Fudan scholar unpacks the mega trends and concrete challenges that the Global South has to navigate in a dramatically shifted landscape.
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Zichen Wang
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