The purges carry real implications for China’s domestic politics and short-term military readiness, but their relevance to Beijing’s Taiwan policy is limited.

Key Points and Summary - America and China tell grand stories about external threats—carrier fleets, alliances, missiles—but the most decisive constraint on both powers is internal: debt. -China’s ...

China’s political establishment is facing one of the most dramatic upheavals in recent memory--the sudden fall from grace of one of its most senior military leaders, General Zhang Youxia. This comes ...

Claims that China is exporting authoritarianism rest on a shallow reading of both Chinese political tradition and how governance ideas actually travel. A longer historical view points instead to ...

In recent weeks, Western audiences encountered two starkly different portraits of China’s economic model. In his book “Breakneck,” tech analyst Dan Wang argues that China is an “engineering state” ...

Thirteen years after Xi Jinping ascended to the top of China’s leadership hierarchy, observers in Washington remain deeply confused about how to assess his rule. To some, Xi is the second coming of ...