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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


China's 2021 Data Security Law: Grand Data Strategy with Looming Implementation Challenges
China’s 2021 Data Security Law (DSL) presents a transformative vision of the country’s data management practices to intensify domestic...
Aynne Kokas
Dec 1, 202116 min read


What is Behind China's Dual Circulation Strategy
Dual circulation may sound like a buzzword without much relevance, but it is not. It actually enshrines China’s long-standing ambition to...
Alicia Garcia Herrero
Sep 1, 202116 min read
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