RESEARCH
Geopolitics Watch: Trump-Xi Meeting at G20 Won’t Curb US Pressure
Summary: Xi Jinping and Donald Trump likely find it to be in their interest to hold a summit at the G20 meeting in Buenos Aires.
Geopolitics Watch: Did the CCP’s ‘Gamble’ on the US Midterm Election Pay Off?
Summary We wrote in August that the CCP could be gambling that the U.S. midterm election results allow it to “avoid a consequential clash with
Geopolitics Watch: What Xi and Wang’s Speeches Mean for the Trade War
Summary Xi Jinping and Wang Qishan gave speeches recently in Shanghai and Singapore respectively. From their speeches, we believe that the CCP may still be
Trump’s Tough-love Policy for China
President Donald Trump is doing a huge favor for Chinese leader Xi Jinping — and he should keep doing it. His administration’s increasingly hard-nosed policies can steer China away from
Politics Watch: Xi Consolidates Control Over Spy Apparatus with Local Gov’t Reforms
Provincial governments in China have been recently announcing that the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee has approved their plans for institutional reform. According to the
Politics Watch: Peking University’s New Party Secretary is on ‘Work Probation’
On Oct. 23, Peking University appointed Qiu Shuiping as its new Party secretary. Qiu was formerly the chief justice of the high court in Shanxi
Politics Watch: Decoding Xi’s ‘Subdued’ Southern Tour
Xi Jinping went on an inspection tour in Guangdong from Oct. 22 to Oct. 25. At each stop, he signaled strongly that China should continue
The CCP Fourth Plenum and Geopolitics
The Chinese Communist Party traditionally holds the plenary session (an important all-hands meeting of the Central Committee) after the annual Two Sessions political conclave around
The World is Trapped in Red China’s Matrix
By Don Tse and Larry Ong Summary Chinese Communist Party has long carried out influence operations to survive and dominate. Decades of CCP influence activity
Politics Watch: Fang Fenghui’s Expulsion, Meng Hongwei’s Arrest, and the Factional ‘Soft Coup’
The Chinese Communist Party Central Committee announced the expulsion of former generals Fang Fenghui and Zhang Yang from the Party on Oct. 16. Both generals,
Risk Watch: Declining Export Surplus Will Affect China’s Forex Earnings
The Sino-U.S. trade war and China’s worsening economy have hurt China’s export surplus. According to official economic figures released near the end of September, China’s
Scrap the Third Communique With China, Keep the Six Assurances to Taiwan
By Joseph Bosco President Donald Trump has not hesitated to tear up international commitments made by his predecessors if he determines they are not in
Politics Watch: Meng Hongwei Purge Hints at ‘Soft Coup’ Against Xi
The sudden vanishing and investigation of Interpol chief Meng Hongwei has called renewed attention to the Chinese Communist Party’s pernicious behavior, human rights abuses, and
Geopolitics Watch: On Correctly Predicting Trends in China-US Relations
Heading into the final quarter of 2018, it has become clearer that “strategic competition” between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC)
A Mini-Marshall Plan to Retain Allies
By Joseph Bosco Belize, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Nicaragua, Palau, Paraguay, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the