Mao Zedong

Xi Jinping in His Own Words

What China’s Leader Wants—and How to Stop Him From Getting It

China’s Accelerating CEEW Campaign

Truth or consequences

The Saudi crown prince has some legitimate grievances

Protecting Americans’ Private Information from Hostile Foreign Powers

Waiting for Thermidor: America’s Foreign Policy Towards Iran

The Islamic Republic of Iran may be on an accelerated schedule for revolutionary decay, at least if compared to the USSR.

Xi’s Great Leap Backward

Beijing is running out of recipes for its looming jobs crisis—and reviving Mao-era policies.

China’s Crisis of Confidence

What if, instead of being a competitor, China can no longer afford to compete at all?

Meet the Turkish Oligarch Who’s Pushing Kremlin Talking Points

Ethem Sancak helps Erdogan straddle the NATO and Russia positions in the Ukraine war.

Biden’s China Policy Could Benefit From Reflecting on Nixon’s Historic Beijing Visit

Nixon’s trip to China 50 years ago is known as “the week that changed the world.” If Biden wants to improve his political fortunes he would do well to learn from it.

Xi Jinping Is Watching His Back

His rhetoric has taken a paranoid turn—and holing himself up in Beijing hasn’t helped.

Don’t Let China Weaponize the 2022 Winter Olympics

While a full boycott would unfairly punish American athletes, there are other measures Washington should take.

Decoding the CCP: BRI means Bribery and Repression Initiative

If we let the CCP get into our heads and shape our language, we are letting it shape our thoughts, which shape our actions.

Xi Takes a Page From Mao’s Red Playbook

Like Mao’s consolidation of power, in the coming year Xi will also further intertwine foreign and domestic crises, even at the risk of potentially serious flair ups with Washington over Taiwan.

The Chinese Communist Party’s New Loyalty Push Exposes Xi’s Insecurities

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) last week issued a new set of guidelines regarding its ideological and political work, one that targets not only CCP members but “all of [Chinese] society.” The announcement,...

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: Early July

Defusing Military-Civil Fusion

The Need to Identify and Respond to Chinese Military Companies

There Is No Going Back: Xi’s Vision at China’s National People’s Congress

In preparation for the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) founding in July, Chinese President Xi Jinping used this month’s National People’s Congress (NPC) to cement his...

Democracies still don’t understand CCP’s political warfare: Kerry Gershaneck

‘Both India and the US have pro-China factions, for reasons ranging from simple greed to leftist, pro-totalitarian ideology. Consequently, it has been difficult to develop a national consensus to fight...

In U.S. backyard: How China embedded itself in Canada

Since the 1970s, there have been important political and economic pro-China vectors emanating out of Montreal and Ottawa. Since then, that have broadened to influential pro-Beijing groups across Canada. Canada...

China’s Military Aims