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China’s Coronavirus Cover-up Campaign Continues

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 [...] More

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<p>Xi Jinping at the 19th Chinese Party Congress</p>

Xi Jinping Proclaims China is Entering a ‘New Era’

On Wednesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping revealed the six other members of the Standing Committee of the Politburo (PBSC) of the Chinese Communist [...] More

Beijing Tightens Party Discipline as Xi Rises

China's 19th Party Congress begins Wednesday in Beijing. The Congress occurs every five years, and is an opportunity to understand the Chinese [...] More

Fear and Loyalty at China’s 19th Communist Party Congress

China, in all probability, will be even more belligerent after its historic 19th Communist Party Congress, which starts today, Wednesday, in [...] More
Chinese Communist Party Conference: Certain Present, Uncertain Future

Chinese Communist Party Conference: Certain Present, Uncertain Future

All eyes are on Beijing Wednesday as the 19th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) begins. Carefully choreographed by the most central [...] More

Back to Basics: Staying Ahead of China

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, [...] More

China’s Supremo

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 [...] More

Xi's Policies: Squeezing Out Business

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 [...] More
The Chinese Communist Party Under Xi Jinping

The Chinese Communist Party Under Xi Jinping

Nationalist fervor, a more aggressive military posture, and curbs on free speech in China today are the hallmarks of one man: President Xi Jinping. [...] More
China in 2016

China in 2016

China enters 2016 facing an increasingly complicated domestic political and economic environment and growing challenges to its assertive foreign [...] More
Thinking About Hong Kong’s Future

Thinking About Hong Kong’s Future

To ask about the state of democracy in Hong Kong is asking the wrong question. The irony is that Hong Kong residents arguably have more voting rights [...] More
Cracks in the System

Cracks in the System

After three decades of unprecedented economic growth, China must manage a volatile stock market, a slowing economy, and increasing criticism both at [...] More

Impact on Beijing's Actions Abroad

Until recently, the widely accepted international narrative about China was that it was a country on a roll - characterized by years of remarkable [...] More