Cui Fan: China Certainly Will Not Apologise for “Overcapacity”
Economist challenges the case against China’s industrial policy, subsidies, and domestic demand, and argues that competitiveness itself should not be treated as a fault.
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4d ago
Michael Jinghan Zeng: Inside a Confucius Institute
Second volume of a memoir from a Confucius Institute director offers an insider’s account of the ordinary people behind an institution often portrayed in extraordinary terms.
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5d ago
Why English keeps returning to China’s culture wars
A recurring online argument reflects the unease of a rising power still navigating a world in which someone else’s language remains unusually useful
Xue Lan: China’s AI Responsibility and Global Action
Tsinghua expert discusses China’s role in global AI governance and why humanity must retain ultimate control.
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1w ago
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.
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2w ago
A Hit Chinese Legal Drama Reopens an Old Question About Lawyers
China’s most famous law professor elaborates on the production by the country’s highest court and procuratorate
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3w ago
When “Flexibility” Sounds Like an Insult
The furore over a Peking University economist says as much about China’s precarious workers—and its battered faith in experts—as it does about one contentious phrase
Zhao Shukai: China’s Rural Reform Had No Master Plan
The breakthroughs of the 1980s came not from top-level design, but from political pluralism, local autonomy, and competition among policy alternat
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3w ago
A Barbarous Cliché
Western China-watchers should stop calling their Chinese interlocutors “barbarian handlers”. The joke is condescending—and, today, remarkably ungrateful.
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3w ago
Zhu Rongji’s Four Phrases for the State-run Press
“Media oversight, the voice of the people, a mirror for the government, and a vanguard of reform”: the Chinese Premier in 1998
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3w ago
Ren Xiao: A Chinese Theory of International Relations, on China’s Own Terms
Writing in the Party's top theoretical journal, the IR professor says “international relations theory” should not be treated as synonymous with Western international relations theory.
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
Zhao Shukai: China's “National Conditions” Are No Argument Against Reform or Enlightenment
Veteran rural policy official examines the the limits of rule by virtuous officials and the unfinished work of enlightenment.
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4w ago
David Daokui Li On The End of Offshore Tax Evasion for China’s Wealthy
The Tsinghua economist welcomes China’s new offshore trust tax rules and reflects on the stark disparity between taxes on capital and labour.
China’s Debt to Its Migrant Workers
Veteran rural policy official Zhao Shukai recalls discriminatory restrictions, arbitrary detention, and forced labour imposed on rural migrants from the 1990s into the early 2000s.
Xue Lan on AI Governance
China's Leading AI governance expert argues that the winners of the AI era will be those that integrate technology with infrastructure, institutions and social trust.
ByteDance’s Ban on Distilling Rival AI Models unrelated to U.S. regulatory concern and dates back to 2023: Report
Zhang Yiming’s decision was driven by a belief that ByteDance’s Seed lab must develop frontier intelligence on its own—even at the cost of falling behind in the short term, Guixinren reports today
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1mo ago
Yao Yang: Hong Wang's groundbreaking achievement and Chinese women's retreating ground
Declining workforce participation, dismal representation in political leadership, and resurgent traditional expectations suggest that decades of gains can no longer be taken for granted.
Gordon G. Liu: What AI Can—and Cannot—Fix in Chinese Healthcare
Peking University health economist on AI-powered primary care, medical research fraud, and the institutional reforms China’s health system still needs