China’s state media devoted unprecedented attention to the world’s 2024 elections, using them as a stage to question the universality of liberal democracy and promote its own results-based political model, writes Ratish Mehta.
Michel Bonnin argues that there are parallels between the Trump administration’s overhaul of US government institutions and Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom reflects on China trips taken and not.
John Gittings examines to what extent Chinese policy in three fields, nuclear, climate change, and pandemics, includes an awareness and assessment of existential risk.
Chi Zhang argues that Yique’s Chinese socialist slogans graffiti that appeared in Brick Lane was artwork rather than propaganda.
Avital Avina explores the use of propaganda imagery to combat disease and promote hygiene in China.
Chuang Men comments that China’s financial regulatory reform of 2023 is not novel compared to previous reforms.
A new report by the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Transformation Index (BTI) has identified considerable declines in the quality of democracy worldwide. Hauke Hartmann comments on the role of Russia and China.
Emeritus Professor Tim Barrett comments on the fallout from Chinese tycoon Wang Xing’s citation of a Tang dynasty era poem on book burning.
Ethical Western shoppers should choose brands that are being punished in China for showing corporate social responsibility, writes Professor Steve Tsang.