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China’s Balance Sheet Challenge
After a decade of rapid credit growth, China is now much more indebted than countries at similar levels of economic development. The...
Nicholas Borst
Mar 1, 202320 min read
China’s Struggle for Common Prosperity
This article compares and contrasts Bo Xilai’s 2011 campaign for common prosperity in the city of Chongqing with the revival of the...
Mary Gallagher
Mar 1, 202319 min read
Measuring China’s Technological Self-Reliance Drive
Assessments of China's efforts to promote indigenous innovation will be fruitless without clear metrics for technological...
Jeffrey Ding
Mar 1, 202311 min read
The Covid–19 Pandemic and China’s Economic Slowdown
The Chinese economy has been undergoing a structural slowdown during the past decade, due to aging, decelerating productivity, and lower...
Alicia Garcia Herrero
Dec 1, 202213 min read
Xi Jinping’s Mixed Economic Record
The economic scorecard for Xi Jinping’s ten years in office is mixed. He opened the economy further to foreign trade and investment. He...
David Dollar
Sep 1, 202222 min read
Controlling China’s Digital Ecosystem: Observations on Chinese Social Media
Nowhere is the effort to control the flow of digital information more extensive and sustained than it is in China. The Chinese Communist...
Jennifer Pan
Jun 1, 202215 min read
Four Questions Regarding the Chinese Economy
China’s economy decelerated sharply toward the end of 2021 and at the start of the new year it was growing at about 4 percent. But some...
David Dollar
Mar 1, 202220 min read
China’s Move to Greater Self Reliance
Reshaping the Chinese economy around the principle of self-reliance will be an extremely complex, highly uncertain, and multi-year...
Adam Segal
Dec 1, 202117 min read
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