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CLM Insights Interview with Susan L. Shirk
Susan Shirk, Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise. Oxford University Press. October 2022. 424 pp. Insights Interview You...
China Leadership Monitor
Mar 1, 20235 min read


The Patriotic Education Campaign in Xi’s China: The Emergence of a New Generation of Nationalists
Xi Jinping has intensified his patriotic education campaign to reaffirm the CCP’s authoritarian rule and he has nurtured a new generation...
Suisheng Zhao
Mar 1, 202321 min read


China’s Balance Sheet Challenge
After a decade of rapid credit growth, China is now much more indebted than countries at similar levels of economic development. The...
Nicholas Borst
Mar 1, 202320 min read


China’s Struggle for Common Prosperity
This article compares and contrasts Bo Xilai’s 2011 campaign for common prosperity in the city of Chongqing with the revival of the...
Mary Gallagher
Mar 1, 202319 min read


Measuring China’s Technological Self-Reliance Drive
Assessments of China's efforts to promote indigenous innovation will be fruitless without clear metrics for technological...
Jeffrey Ding
Mar 1, 202311 min read


The A4 Movement: Mapping its Background and Impact
Although not the primary cause that prompted the sudden reversal of Xi Jinping’s signature “zero-COVID” policy, the protests that swept...
Patricia Thornton
Mar 1, 202321 min read


The Sudden End of Zero-Covid: An Investigation
China’s sudden exit from zero-Covid in early December surprised many observers. The most powerful motivations for this decision were the...
Minxin Pei
Mar 1, 202320 min read
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