

Too Much Risk or Not Enough? New Development Finance Agencies in China and the United States
The past year has seen significant shake-ups to the development finance regimes of the world’s two largest economies. In April 2018,...


The Right to Speak: Discourse and Chinese Power
Xi Jinping at the 10th BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, July 26, 2018. [Li Xueren/Xinhua] In his remarks at the 19th Party...


Taiwan's Social Media Landscape: Ripe for Election Interference?
[Photo by Pen Tsai on Unsplash] Taiwan’s local elections, known as nine-in-one elections (九合一选举) for the nine types of local positions in...


China's Plan to Dominate the Global Electric Vehicle Supply Chain
Since the emergence of the electronics industry in the 1980s, companies in South Korea and Japan have dominated the production of...


The Great Leap Forward: China's Digital Payment System (Part II)
Part II: Strengthening of State Regulations in China’s Digital Payment Market Part I of this series on China’s digital payment system...


The Great Leap Forward: Digital Payment in China (Part I)
Part I: Explaining the Popularity of Digital Payment in China [Su Yang/China Daily] China has become a force to be reckoned with in...


US-China Trade War and the Clausewitzian Trinity
After months of Twitter salvos and internal debates, on July 6th the Trump Administration made good on its threats to raise tariffs on...

China's Play for 5G Dominance: Standards and the Digital Silk Road
China is actively seeking to lead in setting technical standards across a range of emerging industries, from ultra-high voltage (UHV)...


Sino-Russian Military Relations: Gratitude and Resentment
When it comes to military-to-military relations between China and Russia, Western observers by and large remain skeptical over the depth...


PLA Political Work in Cyberspace
At a time when Xi Jinping is reasserting the CCP’s power and authority, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has intensified its...