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How China Is Building an Architecture of Control Across the Heart of Asia

In the years following the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, much of the world treated the region as strategically peripheral - unstable, [...] More

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Roses, Trees, and Power: The Symbolism Behind the Trump-Xi Summit

Last week’s high-level summit in Beijing between President Trump and President Xi achieved few traditional ‘deliverables’ between the two leaders, [...] More

U.S. Donald Trump Meets With China's President Xi In South Korea

When a Charismatic and a Machiavellian Meet

ANALYSIS -- President Trump will visit Beijing later this month for the first time in almost a decade. As a former CIA clinical psychologist, I have [...] More

Xi Jinping Tightens Grip as China’s Military Purge Deepens

In China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “commands the gun”, and Chinese President Xi Jinping controls the one million members of the CCP. In [...] More

China’s Party Plenum: About Much More Than Economics

The third plenum of the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, from July 15-18, normally discusses major economic policy [...] More

Defense Department Report Highlights Cyber Threat from China

OPINION — China’s cyber capabilities pose a greater threat to U.S. interests than ever before, according to a new Pentagon report on Chinese military [...] More

As Xi Consolidates Power, Nationalism Gains Ground

EXPERT Q&A Read also Is a US-China Face-off Over Taiwan Looming for Subscriber+MembersThe Cipher Brief: At the 20th CCP Congress, what stood out amid [...] More

The Strategic Offensive Against the CCP

Doowan Lee is a strategic advisor to the Institute for Security and Technology and adjunct professor of politics at the Univ. of San Francisco. Phil [...] More

Censorship in China

Censorship in China

If Xi Jinping is the father and China’s people are his children, then Xi’s parenting style is definitely based on discipline rather than trust. The [...] More

Being More Hip

The Chinese Communist Party under President Xi Jinping is viewed more favorably by China’s youth than any previous regime in the country’s recent [...] More

Restriction and Resistance

Since 2012, President Xi Jinping has mounted an aggressive anti-corruption campaign against the so-called “tigers and flies,” corrupt officials at [...] More