Thinking About China

The failed island state once again sits at the center of great-power competition.

Two U.S. models went rogue and an open-weight Chinese model 'saved' the day. The lesson is counterintuitive: tougher ...

China's popularity is on paper only.

A quarter-century of Chinese court records reveal the machinery of the persecution of Falun Gong and those who ...

Despite China's AI progress, the floor is falling out from under the rest of its economy, and no ...

Commentary Taiwan is expanding its collective defense strategy by increasing military spending, investing in drone warfare, and strengthening ...

In just 10 years, China went from fintech follower to global leader.

Commentary For too long, the United States has treated China as a difficult trading partner rather than the ...

While China and the United States vie for power globally, Beijing seems to have it in for Japan, ...

The Chinese Communist Party has always been driven by a fear of things it cannot completely control.

Beijing is threatening U.S. land and space assets.

Directing China’s banks to follow political instead of commercial criteria invites a rerun of the property crisis, just ...

Beijing only wants scientific freedom when it doesn’t have the science.

Commentary The Chinese Communist Party claims that China’s unemployment rate was only 5 percent in June, the most ...

Commentary China’s exports have reached staggering levels. In 2025, the country shipped goods worth 26.99 trillion yuan (about ...

Beijing will have to jump very high hurdles indeed to achieve Chinese self-reliance in the production of critical ...

Commentary China has a name for the scam when the mark is foreign: “shā yáng pán,” or “foreigner ...

Commentary China’s competition with the United States when it comes to artificial intelligence is usually described as a ...

Commentary Recent naval exercises and demonstrations by China, Russia, and North Korea point to the so-called Axis of ...

Part 2: Hidden bad debts, eroding investor confidence, and mounting risks are part of China's banking challenges.

Commentary When we picture intellectual property theft, we picture a break-in. A hacker slips past the firewall, copies ...

Commentary The Chinese Communist Party set its 2026 annual economic growth target at 4.5 to 5 percent, its ...

Commentary China has intensified its threat against Taiwan, the Philippines, and Japan through a submarine-launched ballistic missile test ...

The United States and allies should preempt the strategy before preemption causes a nuclear war.

Part One: Recent official data point to a growing number of warning signs that China's banking sector is ...

This is the first in a three-part series examining China’s new Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress.  ...

Commentary The recent passing of Lam Wing-kee at the age of 70 marks the end of an extraordinary ...