Myanmar’s Coup and the Risks to the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor
On February 1, Myanmar’s military—known as the Tatmadaw—declared a one-year national emergency, claiming that the November 2020 election...
China’s Civilian Fishing Fleets Are Still Weapons of Territorial Control
Photograph from Xinhua News showing a Chinese maritime militia ship in 2016. In response to the ongoing presence of over 200 Chinese...
How Sansha City Implements Military-Civil Fusion in the South China Sea
In 2012, China established Sansha City to administer the majority of its maritime and territorial claims in the South China Sea. In the...
China and the Lao Electrical Grid: Implications for Future Borrowers and China
Introduction On 4 September, Reuters reported that the government of Laos, on the verge of default on its debt, planned to establish a...
Rewriting History: How Beijing uses KMT Histories to Forward Its Policy Objectives
Image: Xi Jinping Visits the Siping Battle Memorial Hall in Jilin Province, July 2020. In recent months, Beijing has propagated two...
Raiders of the Propaganda Arc: The CCP Touts Archaeology to Boost China’s “Cultural Self-Confidence”
Image: On May 11, 2020, CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping visited the Yungang Grottoes [云冈石窟] near Datong City (Shanxi Province) to...
The CCP Politburo Reviews Revised Regulations for Party Affairs
On 30 November, People’s Republic of China (PRC) state press announced a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Politburo meeting held the same...
China, COVID-19, and Developing Country Debt
The COVID-19 pandemic has put enormous stress on many of the world’s government budgets. The world’s poorest countries in particular are...
Xi Jinping's Xi'an Visit Indicates CCP Objectives and Centrality of Loyalty to the Party
[Xi Jinping delivers a short speech at Xi’an Jiaotong University on 22 April, 2020: WATCH HERE] The final weeks of April were an...
Why China's GDP Has the Central Bank Worried
[People's Bank of China Governor Yi Gang] Over the last two years, I’ve written pieces for this blog about how debt accumulation and...