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Honey Over Vinegar: China's Slow and Steady Approach to Military Access in Cambodia

In this two-part series, I examine the story behind China’s potential future military basing in Cambodia. Part I focuses on China’s use ...

Why China's GDP Numbers Have Xi Jinping Worried

Last year, I wrote a feature explaining why China’s GDP numbers were cause for worry. At the time, the US-China trade war was just a poss...

The Middle Kingdom's "Big Four" Come to the Gulf

China’s largest state-owned commercial banks—Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Agricultural Bank of China...

In the "New Era," the PLA is Xi's Army

The PLA will always be the Party’s army. China’s latest national defense white paper, released on July 24, highlights the imperative of a as in the cases of Guo Boxiong, Xu Caihou, Fang Fenghui, and Zhang Yang.”  The expulsion of these powerful generals has evidently safeguarded Xi Jinping’s leadership. This defense white paper included the assertion “The anti-corruption struggle has achieved overpowering victory” (反腐败斗争取得压倒性胜利). The combination of the anti-corruption campaig

The National Supervision Commission: From "Punishing the Few" toward "Managing the Ma

[Yang Xiaodu, director of the National Supervision Commission, answers questions on the sidelines of the 19th Party Congress] It has been...

China in Uganda: The Highs and Lows of the Belt and Road

Depending on who you talk to, China’s economic engagement in developing countries could be construed as an absolute positive or an absolu...

Assuring Nuclear (In)stability: Chinese Views on Arms Control and Missile Defense

On January 17th, the Trump Administration released the long-anticipated Missile Defense Review, the first since 2010. The 2019 report mar...

Taking the Anti-Corruption Campaign Abroad: China's Quest for Extradition Treaties

China discredits American extradition treaties just as it expands them as a tool in its anti-corruption campaign. [A Chinese suspect is e...

50 Years Later: How the Soviet Union Called China’s Bluff in 1969

[Chinese and Soviet Border Guards in Pushing Match at the Ussuri River, 1969] The Sino-Soviet border clashes of 1969 resulted in the worl...

Securing the Digital Silk Road

Background: Network Security and the Digital Silk Road Since it was announced in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has served as C...

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