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How Political Purges Reshape Chinese Governance
Ma Xingrui’s downfall shows how China’s purge machine has become a permanent feature of Xi Jinping’s rule — keeping officials disciplined, but…
Tang Ping in Beijing
The Hidden Story Behind China's Pollution, Automation, and Youth Unemployment
How China's press read Takaichi's first trip to Delhi and what its restraint gives away?
Beijing’s press did not cover Sanae Takaichi’s first visit to India as an India story at all, and that refusal is what makes the story interesting.
The Geopolitics of Offshore Renminbi
By Amogh Dev Rai | Research Director and researcher on China, and Chinese Geopolitics.
Where will the money go? Order No. 837 and what it means for strategic competition
China has written its first law devoted solely to where Chinese capital goes when it leaves the country. The instinct behind it is six hundred years…
What Does the Corruption Crackdown Tell Us About China in 2026
4th June is an important date for China watchers. Somewhere in China today there are a few people thinking about the events of Tiananmen Square.
The Innovation Race, the Tibet Power Struggle, and Beijing’s Regional Reach
The Talent That Testing Kills
Calling Taiwan, The Innovation Cold War and Britain's Beijing Problem
Calling Taiwan
Will it be China’s World?
The standard reading of Xi Jinping’s invocation of the Thucydides Trap at the Beijing summit on 14 May 2026 is that he was inviting the United States…
Two Chinas on one Map, The Military Purge, and Bangladesh’s Teesta Pivot
Two Chinas on One Map
The Himalayan Knowledge Gap, China's Hormuz Vulnerability, and the Stockpile That Started a War
The Himalayan Knowledge Gap
Japan’s Security Transformation, China’s Local Government Discipline, and India–China Strategic Stabilisation
Japan Is No Longer a Pacifist State
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