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Featured Excerpt from The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order
"Great Changes Unseen in a Century": The Elusive Phrase Driving China's Grand Strategy ​ The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to...
China Leadership Monitor
Sep 1, 202117 min read
Emergence of the Central Office of Foreign Affairs: From leadership Politics to "Greater Diplomacy"
This essay examines how the Central Office of Foreign Affairs (COFA) has risen within the Chinese party-state system to become an...
Guoguang Wu
Sep 1, 202116 min read
Chinese Views of U.S. Decline
The idea of an America in decline has become a major subject of discussion among many PRC observers. A seeming preponderance of Chinese...
Michael D. Swaine
Sep 1, 202116 min read
CLM Insights Interview with Jonathan Hillman
Interview with Jonathan E. Hillman, The Emperor’s New Road: China and the Project of the Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020....
China Leadership Monitor
Jun 1, 20218 min read
Population, Power Generation, Political Polarization, and Parochialism Are Also Threats to Taiwan
Although it is under constant threat from Beijing, Taiwan has four major structural issues that urgently require solutions, including...
Syaru Lin
Jun 1, 202122 min read
How China is Responding to Escalating Strategic Competition with the U.S.
There seems to be a growing consensus in Beijing that U.S.-China relations will remain rocky for the foreseeable future. Even so,...
Ryan Hass
Mar 1, 202118 min read
The PLA’s Evolving Role in China’s South China Sea Strategy
During the past eight months of the global COVID pandemic, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been active in promoting...
Oriana Skylar Mastro
Dec 1, 202020 min read
CLM Insights Interview with David Shambaugh
David Shambaugh, author of Where Great Powers Meet: America and China in Southeast Asia (Oxford University Press, 2021) Insights...
China Leadership Monitor
Dec 1, 202010 min read
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