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Enabling “Patriots” to Be Masters of the Island: Evolution of Xi’s Policy on Taiwan Since 2013
This article examines the evolution of China’s Taiwan policy under Xi Jinping. It argues that there have been four key shifts since...
Bonny Lin
Sep 1, 202219 min read
From Strategic Reassurance to Running Over Roadblocks: A Review of Xi’s Foreign Policy Record
The conduct of China’s foreign policy over the past decade has grown more nakedly ambitious and tolerant of friction in pursuit of...
Ryan Hass
Sep 1, 202219 min read
CLM Insights Interview with Kevin Rudd
Kevin Rudd, The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic War between the US and Xi Jinping’s China. Public Affairs (March 2022). 432...
China Leadership Monitor
Sep 1, 20228 min read
The Edge of an Abyss: Xi Jinping’s Overall National Security Outlook
Regime security has been a central concern of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) dating back to the founding of the People’s Republic of...
Jude Blanchette
Sep 1, 202217 min read
Strategic Partner or Strategic Player? Russian Asia Experts Assess China’s Ukraine Policy
In the U.S. and Europe, China is seen as Russia’s tacit supporter, but what do Russian experts think? This article examines recent...
Elizabeth Wishnick
Jun 1, 202216 min read
China’s Strategic Straddle: Beijing’s Diplomatic Response to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
This article examines China’s diplomatic responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It argues that the war created an immediate...
Evan Mederios
Jun 1, 202226 min read
China’s Propaganda on the War in Ukraine
Although China’s official position on the war has been that of neutrality—not aligning with the West against Russia and not directly...
Maria Repnikova
Jun 1, 202217 min read
The Ukrainian Challenge to China’s Leadership Politics: An Emerging Divergence in Foreign Policy
Despite China’s pro-Russia stance with respect to the invasion of Ukraine, divergent perspectives exist among Chinese policy elites...
Guoguang Wu
Jun 1, 202218 min read
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