Sinification
Thomas des Garets Geddes, Jacob Mardell, James Farquharson, Orna NaftaliThe world as viewed from China.
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Advantage Does Not Equal Victory | Digest: July 2026
Today’s digest is published in collaboration with Bill Bishop’s one-and-only Sinocism.
The celebratory mood that followed the Trump–Xi summit in May seems to have run its course. The prevailing assessment of US–China “strategic stab...
The Social Costs of China's Education System | Zhou Juan
Orna Naftali is Abraham Miller Chair in Chinese Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. An anthropologist specializing in childhood, youth, education, and the family, as well...
Made "with" China? — Shi Zhan on RMB Appreciation and Building a "Shadow China" Abroad
"Once you have earned all the world’s money, you cannot keep doing so for long. If everyone else has no money left to earn, they will no longer be able to keep buying your goods..."
One phrase has stuck with me since my recent trip to Beij...
Investing in People—or Just More Things? | Economic Digest: June 2026
Local Government Financing | Structural Splits | Rebalancing, or Just Adjusting the Course? | Capital Markets | Property Market | Artificial Intelligence
The death of the veteran market economist Gao Shanwen last week brought forth a serie...
Justin Yifu Lin on Pessimism about the Chinese Economy
"A key reason for weak expectations about the future is a lack of confidence, with claims such as 'there are structural problems' [...] exerting considerable influence on people." - Lin Yifu
Justin Yifu Lin is in many ways the poster-econo...
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Exec. Director of Sinification. Associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). Former analyst at MERICS.
Lead Analyst at Sinification. Former analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS). Fellow at the China Global South Project.
Associate Research Analyst at Sinification; Master's student at Peking University focusing on late-Qing history [email protected]
Abraham Miller Chair in Chinese Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [email protected]
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