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...