Welcome to the China Leadership Monitor's Spring 2024 Digest, which provides article summaries for those who have not yet explored our...

Can the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) achieve its ambitious modernization goals in an era of economic stagnation? Fewer national...

Chinese policymakers have been aware that financial security is part of national security since the 1997 Asian financial crisis. During...

Taiwan’s election in January 2024 was the first to focus primarily on domestic policy rather than national identity or relations with...

China has two security services responsible for domestic surveillance. The “political security protection” bureau of the Ministry of...

With the promotion of military-industrial technocrats to central party-state leadership positions, Xi Jinping initiated a series of...

Minxin Pei. The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press, 2024....

Evan Medeiros, ed. Cold Rivals: The New Era of Strategic Competition. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, August 2023. 320 pp....