China Outlook 2025: Crises Set to Worsen for Xi and the CCP
Our China 2025 outlook contains 32 predictions covering eight categories.
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Politics Watch: The Hong Kong Extradition Law and the CCP Factional Struggle
◎ Xi’s political rivals are “weaponizing” Party orthodoxy against the Xi camp in Hong Kong affairs.
Geopolitics Watch: How the Trump-Xi G20 Meeting Could Affect Sino-US Relations in the Second Half of 2019
◎ Both President Trump and Xi Jinping have signaled strongly that they want to meet each other at the G20 in Osaka.
Is China About to Give America a ‘Bloody Nose’?
◎ The real challenge will be America’s response to China’s first-level retaliation, and whether Washington is prepared to move up the escalatory ladder.
Risk Watch: How the CCP Could Do a ‘Pearl Harbor’ to Survive the ‘New Cold War’
◎ The CCP could use conventional and “unrestricted warfare” strategies and tactics against the United States.
Geopolitics Watch: Escalation in US Policy on China Endangers the CCP
◎ The Trump administration has moved to challenge the regime on Huawei, human rights and Taiwan, as well as strengthen alliances and partnerships in the Indo-Pacific.
Henry Kissinger is Still Brilliant — and Still Wrong About China
◎ The Trump administration is confronting China multidimensionally — on trade, Taiwan, the South China Sea and North Korea — as no predecessor ever did.
Risk Watch: US Huawei Ban Could Trigger Black Swans in China
◎ Ren Zhengfei’s alternating rhetoric reveals that Huawei is at its “wit’s end.”
Geopolitics Watch: Will the Huawei Ban Bring China Back to the Negotiation Table?
◎ The CCP will find it very hard to return to negotiations in the current geopolitical climate.
Politics Watch: The Multiple Political Signals in Xi’s Jiangxi Tour
◎ Several political signals in Xi’s inspection trip to Jiangxi are meant for different groups within the Party.
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