On February 1, Myanmar’s military—known as the Tatmadaw—declared a one-year national emergency, claiming that the November 2020 election...

Photograph from Xinhua News showing a Chinese maritime militia ship in 2016. In response to the ongoing presence of over 200 Chinese...

In 2012, China established Sansha City to administer the majority of its maritime and territorial claims in the South China Sea. In the...

Introduction On 4 September, Reuters reported that the government of Laos, on the verge of default on its debt, planned to establish a...

Image: Xi Jinping Visits the Siping Battle Memorial Hall in Jilin Province, July 2020. In recent months, Beijing has propagated two...

Image: On May 11, 2020, CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping visited the Yungang Grottoes [云冈石窟] near Datong City (Shanxi Province) to...

On 30 November, People’s Republic of China (PRC) state press announced a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Politburo meeting held the same...

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 delivers a short speech at Xi’an Jiaotong University on 22 April, 2020: WATCH HERE] The final weeks of April were an...

[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...