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Digest: Spring 2024 Issue 79
Welcome to the China Leadership Monitor's Spring 2024 Digest, which provides article summaries for those who have not yet explored our...
Adam Terenyi
Mar 22, 202416 min read


Getting to World Class: Can China’s Military Persevere?
Can the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) achieve its ambitious modernization goals in an era of economic stagnation? Fewer national...
Joel Wuthnow
Feb 29, 202417 min read

China’s Attempts to Reduce Its Strategic Vulnerabilities to Financial Sanctions
Chinese policymakers have been aware that financial security is part of national security since the 1997 Asian financial crisis. During...
Zongyuan Zoe Liu
Feb 29, 202417 min read


What Taiwan’s 2024 Election Means for China, the US, and the Future of Taiwan
Taiwan’s election in January 2024 was the first to focus primarily on domestic policy rather than national identity or relations with...
Syaru Shirley Lin, Caroline Fried, and Siwei Huang
Feb 29, 202419 min read

Piercing the Veil of Secrecy: The Surveillance Role of China’s MSS and MPS
China has two security services responsible for domestic surveillance. The “political security protection” bureau of the Ministry of...
Minxin Pei
Feb 29, 202418 min read
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