Discussion about personnel issues within Chinese politics has been rampant of late. In Japan, the media has been reporting on President Xi Jinping’s supposed health issues and has even suggested that ...

Rather than building on policy success stories, they tend to seek to deflect criticism for policy failures onto others. The underlying reason is so-called asymmetric payoffs: Success stories may lead ...

Since its launch, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has struggled to cope with the political challenges of infrastructure development in low-income and often politically unstable developing ...

“Reading banned books behind closed doors on a snowy night is one of life’s greatest pleasures,” goes a popular saying in China. It is often (perhaps mistakenly) attributed to a 17th-century scholar, ...

China is not a black box. While Xi Jinping’s consolidation of power has brought tighter control over dissent and leaks, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) now produces more routine political ...

A trove of internal documents leaked from a little-known Chinese company has pulled back the curtain on how digital censorship tools are being marketed and exported globally. Geedge Networks sells ...