Three Takeaways From China’s 2025 Two Sessions
Li’s work report indicates that Beijing will rely heavily on issuing debt to meet its 2025 growth target.
POLITICS

Shanghai ‘Zero-COVID’ Shutdown Threatens Economic Slowdown, Political Trouble
The Shanghai lockdown and those in other areas are starting to weigh on the Chinese economy.

Analyzing Fang Zhou’s ‘Objective Evaluation of Xi Jinping’
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Xi’s Political Considerations and the Risk of Cross-Strait Crisis in 2022
There is an increased probability of cross-strait crisis in 2022.

China 2022 Outlook: Xi and the CCP on the Precipice in a Party Congress Year
Presenting our China 2022 outlook.

Analyzing ‘Anti-Xi’ Messaging in the Post-Sixth Plenum Party Press
Qu Qingshan and Jiang Jinquan’s articles pave the way for Xi Jinping to move against the Jiang faction.

What to Expect From Chinese Politics in 2022
Escalating Xi-Jiang faction struggle will raise political risk levels in China in 2022.

Xi’s ‘historical resolution’ downplays the political legacy of his predecessors
Xi’s “historical resolution” quietly lays the groundwork for him to move the Party further away from the “collective leadership” model and towards strongman dictatorship.

Political Hurdles Remain for China’s Xi Despite Passage of ‘Historical Resolution’
Xi is now under tremendous pressure to perform after having artificially inflated his “quan wei” and image through propaganda and the “historical resolution.”

CCP Factional Struggle Intensifies With Purge of Ex-610 Office Cadres
The downfall of Sun Lijun and Fu Zhenghua appears to be connected to Xi’s effort at marginalizing and securing a decisive victory against the Jiang faction.
Deputy Director of the Centre for Geopolitics, Cambridge University
Deputy Director of the Centre for Geopolitics, Cambridge University
Deputy Director of the Centre for Geopolitics, Cambridge University