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Zhao Shukai: From National Policy to Local Politics
Regional traditions, local leaders, and the political cultures behind markedly different policy implementation across China.
5 hrs ago
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Yuxuan JIA
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Yixin Guo
5
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Huawei mocked over a child's toy
A viral bamboo cicada joke exposed the tensions between Huawei’s status as a symbol of China’s technological rise and its role as a consumer brand.
Aug 5
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Yuxuan JIA
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Zichen Wang
14
2
Huang Yiping on China Shock 2.0 debate
NSD director suggests deeper China-Europe cooperation in green transition, advanced manufacturing, industrial AI, high-end services, and third-country…
Aug 4
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Yuxuan JIA
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Zhu Yutao
6
3
Zhang Ming: the AI boom’s missing growth dividend & its winner-take-all risks
CASS economist addresses two questions: Why has the AI wave so far failed to significantly accelerate economic growth, and will humanity eventually be…
Aug 3
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Yiyang Xu
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Yuxuan JIA
6
3
Reading the July Politburo Meeting: More Support, Same Priorities
Beijing has sharpened its economic diagnosis and moved additional policies closer to deployment, while preparing an October plenum centered on Party…
Published on Pekingnology
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Aug 2
July 2026
Zhao Shukai: How China Allowed Private Employment
The policy shift emerged through rural experiments, divisions among senior leaders and deliberate policy ambiguity. The transition was also remarkably…
Jul 31
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Qingqu Yuan
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Yuxuan JIA
10
1
ByteDance folds Feishu teams into Doubao, Volcano Engine in enterprise AI push
TikTok’s Chinese parent is drawing its AI models, cloud infrastructure, and workplace software closer together as China’s tech giants race to bring AI…
Jul 30
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Yuxuan JIA
6
2
Liu Shijin’s Proposals to Turn Excess Saving into Domestic Demand
One of China’s most senior policy economists calls for redirecting corporate earnings, state assets, and government stimulus towards household…
Jul 29
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Yuxuan JIA
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Yiyang Xu
14
6
Louis Vuitton’s Legal Win Turns Into a Reputation Crisis in China
French luxury brand's trademark suit against a tea chain generated hundreds of trending topics, state-media scrutiny, and a wave of false claims.
Jul 27
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Yuxuan JIA
16
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Li Xunlei: China Is Growing Older — and Less Mobile
A skewed sex ratio weighs on marriage and fertility, while an ageing migrant workforce is redrawing China’s economic map.
Jul 24
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Yuxuan JIA
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Qingqu Yuan
8
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This Is Not an Inspiring China Story
An Sanshan’s essay about his mother is heartbreaking. But the life it reveals—his mother worked to death before 50, her son still carrying cement at…
Published on Pekingnology
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Jul 23
Zhang Ming: A Chinese model for currency internationalisation is taking shape
Manufacturing strength and growing overseas investment are giving Beijing a path different from the United States's.
Jul 19
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Zhu Yutao
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Yuxuan JIA
14
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