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What China Needs from an AI Deal with America | Huang Ping
AI is expected to be a central issue at the Xi-Trump summit later this September, but the scope for concessions on either side seems much less certain. US rhetoric around AI safety is often viewed sceptically in China as a means of holding...
Who Pays for the New Economy? Economic Digest: August 2026
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Overall expectations for the second half of 2026 are low among Chinese economists. This is partly a mat...
China’s Mandate to Rule the Waves and Secure the Future | Di Dongsheng
There is something distinctly High Victorian about Di Dongsheng’s closing proclamation that “the descendants of the dragon shall ultimately rule the stars and the waves”. Indeed, the piece certainly strikes an extremely hawkish tone through...
Changes Unseen, Strategies Uncharted | Digest: August 2026
Today’s digest is published in collaboration with Bill Bishop’s one-and-only Sinocism.
This month’s digest pulls in different directions—insofar as we can follow a single thread, it is that of traditional systems being swept away an...
Why China’s Football Problem Is an Economic Problem | Li Xunlei
“If these proposals remain perpetually confined to principles or words on the page, and reform is still further delayed, then cause and effect dictates that a crisis will follow.”
Li Xunlei, chief economist at the securities firm Zhongtai...
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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.
Research Analyst at Sinification; MA Peking University late-Qing history; BA Cambridge Chinese studies
Abraham Miller Chair in Chinese Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [email protected]
I’m an historian with a bit of policy experience. I teach at UBC in Vancouver. My work focuses on the history and life if the Chinese Communist Party, Chinese intellectuals, propaganda, ideology, oh, and one can never escape Mao.
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