OPINION — In China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “commands the gun”, and Chinese President Xi Jinping controls the one million members of the [...]
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OPINION — For decades, the United States (U.S.) operated under a fatal delusion that free trade with China would liberalize its politics and that the [...]
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OPINION — For decades, the United States (U.S.) operated under a fatal delusion that free trade with China would liberalize its politics and that the [...]
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DEEP DIVE – President Xi Jinping’s latest purge of generals has eviscerated China’s military leadership, drawn comparisons to crackdowns carried out [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontChina’s propaganda efforts to cover-up the true scale of COVID-19’s impact on the health and safety of China’s citizens is part [...]
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Bottom Line Up FrontChina’s propaganda efforts to cover-up the true scale of COVID-19’s impact on the health and safety of China’s citizens is part [...]
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Bottom Line Up Front: On June 4, 1989 the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) staged a violent crackdown on peaceful protesters who gathered at Tiananmen [...]
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Bottom Line Up Front: On 18 March, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) released a white paper outlining its counterterrorism efforts in Xinjiang [...]
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China’s intelligence and security services play a pivotal role in shaping how China’s leadership views the outside world – but we in that outside [...]
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On Wednesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping revealed the six other members of the Standing Committee of the Politburo (PBSC) of the Chinese Communist [...]
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China's 19th Party Congress begins Wednesday in Beijing. The Congress occurs every five years, and is an opportunity to understand the Chinese [...]
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China, in all probability, will be even more belligerent after its historic 19th Communist Party Congress, which starts today, Wednesday, in [...]
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All eyes are on Beijing Wednesday as the 19th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) begins. Carefully choreographed by the most central [...]
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Compared to China, ISIS amounts to a nasty swarm of gnats. Compared to China, Russia comes across as a cranky old man (with a shotgun). However, [...]
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Since coming to power in 2012, China's Xi Jinping has reforged the Chinese Communist Party with his anti-corruption campaign and his accumulation of [...]
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As 2016 draws to a close, The Cipher Brief revisits its feature on the architect of China’s most recent and expansive policies, Xi Jinping.One of the [...]
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Nationalist fervor, a more aggressive military posture, and curbs on free speech in China today are the hallmarks of one man: President Xi Jinping. [...]
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China enters 2016 facing an increasingly complicated domestic political and economic environment and growing challenges to its assertive foreign [...]
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