Purge vs Poll: Xi’s Iron Grip Meets Taiwan’s Voter Grit
Meng Kit Tang contrasts Xi Jinping’s sweeping purges with Taiwan’s wave of recall elections — two starkly different methods of political control on either side of the Strait.
2511, 2025
0311, 2025
Existential Risk: China ticks two boxes out of four
A major 2023 policy statement from Beijing gave a stark picture of the multiple dangers facing the world ahead. How broad or sustained will be the Chinese response?
0110, 2025
Hainan vs Hong Kong
China is set to launch the Hainan Free Trade Port in December 2025, billing it as a rival to Hong Kong. But five major challenges—in law, finance, taxation, openness, and governance—could limit its ambitions, comments Xiaoyang Zhang.
2409, 2025
The Politics of Art in Hong Kong
Hong Kong remains an art-market hub, yet its creative freedoms are being steadily curtailed. As “soft resistance” becomes a political label, artists face hard consequences—and a censorship culture increasingly aligned with the mainland.
0708, 2025
China’s War Memory and the Politics of Nationalism
The CCP’s revival of anti-Japanese war memory serves as more than historical commemoration—it is a strategic instrument for consolidating political legitimacy and managing domestic and international pressures in Xi Jinping’s China, writes Rahul Pandey.
2506, 2025
Europe’s Fragmented China Expertise
Stefan Messingschlager argues that Europe’s patchwork of national China expertise weakens its collective strategy, creating opportunities for Beijing to exploit internal divisions.
1405, 2025
Opposing Autocracy in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia
A forthcoming book by Jeffrey Wasserstrom on activists in Thailand, Hong Kong and Burma explores common ground in the ‘Milk Tea Alliance’.
1504, 2025
Lessons from Starting a Bank in China: An Insider’s Reflections
Ken Wilcox reflects on three hard-learned lessons of starting a bank and doing business in China.
1803, 2025
The Chinese Communist Party’s World Heritage Strategy
Shao Jiang argues that the Chinese Communist Party asserts its legitimacy over China through its control of the definition of heritage and its expansion of economic and political hegemony.
1303, 2025
Hong Kong’s Democratic Party and key pollster PORI wind down amid seismic changes in civil society
The closure of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party and PORI signals that the “one country, two systems” experiment is entering a new era of uncertainty, says Chris Yeung.