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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
The CCP’s Domestic Security Taskmaster: The Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission
The Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Party oversees the vast coercive apparatus of the party-state....
Minxin Pei
Sep 1, 202120 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
Xi Jinping-Style Control and Civil Society Responses
On the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, grassroots civil society is in trouble. Democracy advocates...
Diana Fu and Emile Dirks
Sep 1, 202114 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 David Shambaugh
David Shambaugh, China's Leaders: From Mao to Now (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, August 31, 2021), 416 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1509546510...
China Leadership Monitor
Sep 1, 20217 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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