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Cui Fan: China Certainly Will Not Apologise for “Overcapacity”
Economist challenges the case against China’s industrial policy, subsidies, and domestic demand, and argues that competitiveness itself should not be…
11 hrs ago
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Yuxuan JIA
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Outside help
Chinese workers discover the leverage of foreign pressure
Sep 10
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Zichen Wang
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Michael Jinghan Zeng: Inside a Confucius Institute
Second volume of a memoir from a Confucius Institute director offers an insider’s account of the ordinary people behind an institution often portrayed…
Sep 9
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Yuxuan JIA
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Why English keeps returning to China’s culture wars
A recurring online argument reflects the unease of a rising power still navigating a world in which someone else’s language remains unusually useful
Sep 8
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Zichen Wang
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Xue Lan: China’s AI Responsibility and Global Action
Tsinghua expert discusses China’s role in global AI governance and why humanity must retain ultimate control.
Sep 6
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Yuxuan JIA
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Zhu Yutao
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New Open-Access Book: China and the Next Global Order
Henry Huiyao Wang examines the emerging multipolar world and the evolving balance between competition and cooperation among major powers.
Sep 4
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August 2026
A Hit Chinese Legal Drama Reopens an Old Question About Lawyers
China’s most famous law professor reflects on the importance of defence counsel in a series produced with the country’s highest court and procuratorate
Aug 25
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Yuxuan JIA
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When “Flexibility” Sounds Like an Insult
The furore over a Peking University economist says as much about China’s precarious workers—and its battered faith in experts—as it does about one…
Aug 23
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Zichen Wang
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Zhao Shukai: China’s Rural Reform Had No Master Plan
The breakthroughs of the 1980s came not from top-level design, but from political pluralism, local autonomy, and competition among policy alternat
Aug 22
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Yuxuan JIA
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Qingqu Yuan
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A Barbarous Cliché
Western China-watchers should stop calling their Chinese interlocutors “barbarian handlers”. The joke is condescending—and, today, remarkably…
Aug 21
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Zichen Wang
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Zhu Rongji’s Four Phrases for the State-run Press
“Media oversight, the voice of the people, a mirror for the government, and a vanguard of reform”: the Chinese Premier in 1998
Aug 19
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Zichen Wang
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Ren Xiao: A Chinese Theory of International Relations, on China’s Own Terms
Writing in the Party's top theoretical journal, the IR professor says “international relations theory” should not be treated as synonymous with Western…
Aug 17
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Yiyang Xu
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Yuxuan JIA
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