Xi Jinping

China’s Economic Squeeze

Beijing’s export drive is creating global imbalances it refuses to address. For decades, China’s economic rise has been both a source of global growth and a cause of mounting friction. Its transformation into the world’s factory has undeniably helped lower...
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The Party Never Sleeps

From Mao’s informants to Xi Jinping’s digital panopticon, China’s Communist Party has transformed surveillance into its most potent instrument of political survival. “We know how much the internet has changed America, and we are already an open society. Think how...
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The Ancient Greek War Haunting Washington and Beijing

Xi Jinping’s invocation of the ‘Thucydides Trap’ revives the long shadow of the Peloponnesian War and asks whether America and China are repeating history’s oldest great-power mistakes. AI generated image During last week’s summit in Beijing with U.S. President Donald...
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A Fantastic Illusion

Trump’s Beijing summit revealed less a thaw in Sino-American rivalry than a quiet acknowledgement that the balance of power is shifting eastward. When Donald Trump recently left Beijing calling his summit with Xi Jinping “fantastic,” the pageantry suggested a diplomatic...
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The Greening Of China

China’s environmental awakening has brought cleaner skies and greener industries, but the costs of decades of ecological devastation remain immense. Mao Zedong was not a farmer. Though born into a peasant family, he had little farming experience. It was political...
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