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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
Justin Yifu Lin is in many ways the poster-economist of China’s industrial policy. A former chief economist of the World Bank, his worldview of “new structural economics” is based on the simple idea that states should adapt industrial polic...
American Decline, Chinese Exposure | Digest: June 2026
Today’s digest is published in collaboration with Bill Bishop’s one-and-only Sinocism.
As ever, the US constitutes the main focus of China’s foreign-policy discourse in June. Yet there is a growing sense that, at least in the short...
Zhang Jian on China, the EU and Russia "De-Risking" from the US
Despite official PRC discourse formally disavowing balance-of-power and bloc politics, the idiom of geopolitical balancing runs deep in Chinese strategic thought.
The Three Kingdoms remains the obvious shorthand for the US–China–Russia tri...
Shao Yuqun on the Post-Summit Shift in Trump’s Taiwan Policy
"If war breaks out across the Strait because the Taiwan authorities push for 'Taiwan independence', the US will not send troops to intervene..."
I happened to be in Washington, D.C. at the time of Trump’s 13–15 May state visit to Beijing,...
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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.
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