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Zhang Bin: China still needs more investment
CASS economist argues that the appeal of redistribution and structural reform can obscure the need for countercyclical policy and public investment.
 • Yuxuan JIA and Yixin Guo
Xu Gao: Three Questions China Must Clarify to Promote Effective Investment
The economist and adjunct professor at PKU examines investment’s relationship with consumption, how its returns should be assessed, and how the…
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Inside China’s Embassy in Kyiv as War Broke Out
A rare firsthand account by a Chinese diplomat of the warnings, judgments, emergency meetings, and evacuation efforts in Ukraine before and on February…
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New Open-Access Book: China and the Next Global Order
Henry Huiyao Wang examines the emerging multipolar world and the evolving balance between competition and cooperation among major powers.
Ju Jiandong’s Case for China’s Tech Catch-Up
Tsinghua economist argues that government intervention is necessary to create demand, sustain innovation, and reduce dependence on foreign core…
 • Yuxuan JIA
Record of the Press Conference of the Taiwan Affairs Office 2026-09-09
What Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office Said This Week
 • Zichen Wang
Surveying The U.S. Debate on Taiwan Policy
Chinese scholars trace a shift from Biden-era calls for strategic clarity to a renewed emphasis on strategic ambiguity and the growing influence of…
 • Yuxuan JIA and Yiyang Xu
Li Xunlei on China’s Transport Overcapacity
A data-driven look across China’s expressways, high-speed rail, airports, and urban transit at excessive expansion, weak utilisation, and regional…
 • Yuxuan JIA and Yixin Guo
Record of the Press Conference of the Taiwan Affairs Office 2026-09-02
What Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office Said This Week
 • Zichen Wang
A useful time to complain
Mainland workers are discovering that an employer’s Hong Kong IPO can turn an ordinary labour dispute into a more potent one
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August 2026

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