Thinking About China

Commentary Much has been written about China's rise. Far less attention has been paid to a more important question: whether China's economic model can sustain it. For more than three ...

Commentary The recent Trump-Xi summit in Beijing featured grand ceremonies, red-carpet pomp, and diplomatic flair, but it produced ...

Commentary Every June, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) confronts a problem it cannot fully solve. The tanks that ...

Commentary On May 26, Cuba received an aid package of 60,000 tons of rice from the Chinese Communist ...

Is Chinese leader Xi Jinping's rapid moves to reinforce ties with anti-U.S. allies a sign of strength or ...

Commentary China’s infrastructure-driven growth model, once the engine of its economic rise, is now producing diminishing returns so ...

As the U.S. and EU tariff China, Beijing will seek new export markets.

Part four: coercion, control, and proof‑by‑dashboard

The ambiguous outcome of the recent Trump–Xi summit raised a deeper question: Is Taiwan quietly becoming negotiable?

Rising developer defaults say the country has a long way to go before it gets out of the ...

Commentary During their early summit meeting in Beijing on May 14, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping ...

Commentary Xi Jinping is orchestrating a deliberate, decade-long, multidomain campaign of ideological and political reconsolidation, drawing conscious inspiration ...

Commentary The regime in China imposed a crackdown against three online brokers that serve mainland Chinese clients by ...

Commentary On May 14, during U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to China, Chinese leader Xi Jinping, in his ...

Commentary Since the end of the U.S.–China summit, which ran from May 13 to May 15, commentators have ...

The evidence and at least one billionaire agree.

May’s summit between Xi and Trump shows that each wants to avoid tension and manage the competition between ...

Commentary China’s massive distant-water fishing fleet operates as both an economic and paramilitary force, using illegal fishing, gray-zone ...

Commentary Just days after U.S. President Donald Trump departed Beijing following his summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, ...

Commentary Communist China is producing a real horror show. Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) recently convened a special session ...

Commentary Are the effects of U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy strategy beginning to peel away satellite nations ...

China’s economic and demographic problems are forcing Beijing to place greater emphasis on vocational training.

Commentary Although the U.S. fleet remains the world’s preeminent naval power, China’s state-backed shipbuilding industry now dwarfs America’s ...

Commentary For decades, western leaders comforted themselves with the belief that China’s economic rise would eventually produce political ...

What once looked like ordinary trade expansion has evolved into something far more consequential.

The U.S. data center boom exposes a fundamental strategic contradiction.

Commentary When U.S. President Donald Trump returned to Washington from Beijing and later spoke in a Fox News ...