How Chinese people remember and talk about their experiences during the COVID surge with one another may have real political consequences, says Minxin Pei, professor of government at Claremont McKenna… Read more »
While the protests in China were initially born out of shared dissatisfaction against the COVID-19 policy, people soon found themselves going into different directions, ideologically and physically, notes Xiaoyu Lu,… Read more »
The recent protests in China have rippled well beyond the mainland, to cities around the world with large contingents of Chinese students — even Hong Kong, where the pro-democracy protests… Read more »
China’s vast security apparatus has moved swiftly to smother mass protests that swept the country, with police patrolling streets, checking cell phones and even calling some demonstrators to warn them… Read more »
Following October’s daring Sitong bridge protest (above) against Xi Jinping’s autocratic rule, copycat demonstrations have since spread to more than 350 campuses around the world, organized by Chinese students who… Read more »
China is now peaking in its power and is soon to decline, and that makes it especially dangerous, according to Tufts associate professor Michael Beckley, co-author of a new book,… Read more »
China is increasingly targeting U.S. state and local officials in influence operations designed to further the objectives of the ruling Communist Party, according to a new report by a U.S…. Read more »
A regime once known for its technocratic efficiency could soon face a growing legitimacy crisis, notes Yanzhong Huang, Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations, Seton… Read more »
China cannot endorse Russia’s invasion of Ukraine because the maintenance of territorial integrity is “primordial” in Beijing’s foreign policy, but nor can it align itself with a NATO that it… Read more »
In the year before the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, campuses in China buzzed with debate about how to make the country more liberal. To some intellectuals the West offered… Read more »