Who is Xi Jinping and what does he want? Stefan Aust and Adrian Geiges unravel the story behind the rise of China’s most powerful leader since Mao, Xi’s ultimate ambition, and what that means for China and the world.
Kenton Thibaut, a resident China fellow with the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, talks about Beijing’s ambitious strategy to promote “pro-China narratives” under the leadership of Xi Jinping.
Bonnie Glaser has a lifetime of experience researching and advising the U.S. government on trans-Pacific geopolitics, security, and defense. I asked her all about the global anxieties China and the U.S. are causing around the world, how close we are to a war over Taiwan, and much more.
Moscow says Washington is to blame for the apparent sabotage of a Russian gas pipeline to Europe, and Chinese state media agree. But there are several reasons why Putin may have sent underwater saboteurs to the Baltic Sea.
Minister Xu Xueyuan, Deputy Chief of Mission at the PRC embassy in Washington, D.C., discusses the pressing questions often asked about China right now — including Russia's war on Ukraine and how (if at all) that relates to Taiwan, American perspectives on Xinjiang, and much more.
“[China] brought the backlash on themselves,” Susan Shirk writes in her new book, “and they have done it by overreaching.”
A deadly fire in Changchun has once again shined a light on shoddy construction and fatal accidents that are all too common in China’s cities and infrastructure. But some government policies and new technologies from the private sector offer hope.
Beijing has announced an unsurprising list of nearly 2,300 delegates who will attend the upcoming 20th Chinese Communist Party Congress that will determine its most powerful ruling body. Xi Jinping is, of course, among the chosen ones.
Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan have eased up on COVID restrictions. Could the Chinese mainland be next?