Sep 25, 2017
The key meeting in October promises to set the tone for at least the next five years.
Cheng Li, Director, John L. Thornton China Center, The Brookings Institution
Sep 18, 2017
If many analysts prove correct in their forecasts, China’s military leadership will undergo the largest-ever turnover of military elite in the history of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) at the 19th Party Congress this October.
Cheng Li, Director, John L. Thornton China Center, The Brookings Institution
Xinyue Zhang, Master’s degree candidate in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
Sep 01, 2017
In addition to its well-known economic progress, the Chinese state has made conscious efforts to cultivate an advanced legal framework that promotes the growth of a diverse and inclusive society. However, recent political moves censoring LGBT content may be forcing the country backward.
Li Zheng, Assistant Research Processor, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations
Niu Shuai, Assistant Research Fellow, CICIR
Aug 29, 2017
The advent of the AI age will bring unprecedented opportunities and challenges. The world’s two most powerful countries, also the world’s two biggest players in AI, need to come together to manage this new technology.
Cheng Li, Director, John L. Thornton China Center, The Brookings Institution
Aug 24, 2017
Patterns in leadership reshuffling in the lead-up to the 19th National Party Congress—especially at the provincial level—clearly reveal the coming-of-age of the CCP’s sixth generation of leaders.
Shum Weng Hei, Research Intern, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
Aug 17, 2017
On the 26th of March, Hong Kong gained a new leader, the duly elected Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor. Despite professing a desire to continue the policies of her predecessor Chief Executive CY Leung, it has noted that Lam has also taken certain steps that bear a similarity to another Chief Executive, Donald Tsang. The question then becomes: will Lam become CY 2.0, or Donald Tsang 2.0?
Yu Sui, Professor, China Center for Contemporary World Studies
Aug 11, 2017
With the coming of the 19th National Congress, audiences in China and around the world reflect on the changes for China since the last party Congress, with a focus on Xi Jinping’s leadership, domestic economic goals and improvements, and China’s role on the international stage.
Kishore Mahbubani, Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum
Aug 10, 2017
In a world that is changing more rapidly than ever, we should seek leaders who can protect and serve the interests of the people they are supposed to represent. This means not just criticizing the failings of weak leaders, but also highlighting the successes of strong ones.
Robert I. Rotberg, Founding Director of Program on Intrastate Conflict, Harvard Kennedy School
Aug 01, 2017
One of China’s largest and most powerful construction companies, with operations all over Africa, discharges local employees if they test positive for HIV. Chinese companies are not known to be paternal in their dealings with employees. Where there is discrimination in Africa by Chinese firms it is mostly social and implicit.
Jul 31, 2017
One of the key events leading up to the 19th Communist Party of China (CPC) Congress took place in Beijing this week as China's political elites--including cabi