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Pensions Under Pressure: China’s Social Security Crossroads
Pensions are not merely figures on a balance sheet - they represent a ticking time bomb embedded within China’s social and political order.
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Parade of Power, Theater of Fear: Illusion and Reality in Xi’s China
The tension between appearance and substance affects not only China’s domestic stability, but also the extent to which it can shape the international…
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The Shaolin Temple Scandal and China’s Institutional Moral Crisis
How China trades fairness and justice for social harmony and political stability.
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China’s AI Power Profile: Advantages, Dependencies, and Limits
Despite prioritizing self-reliance, China continues to rely on Western AI technologies across the development, deployment, and application phases.
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Five Dimensions of China’s AI-Driven Global Political Ecosystem
The technological vision behind China’s AI strategy.
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Beyond the Ukraine Benchmark: Taiwan’s Civic Resilience and the Politics of Survival
Taiwan’s civil society is not unprepared - it is prepared differently.
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From Reactive Stability Maintenance to Intrusive Defense
How China is working to construct a globally favorable political and information ecosystem.
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Special Report - AI and the Reshaping of Power: Reframing the Core Issues in China’s Global AI Strategy
Ultimately, the U.S.–China AI competition is a contest over the future distribution of power, the mechanisms for controlling and validating information…
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The Fujian Blueprint: How Xi Jinping's Provincial Tenure Shaped China's Taiwan Strategy
Xi Jinping’s Fujian years gave him a unique perspective on Taiwan: one grounded in cultural affinity, shared markets, and provincial diplomacy. But this…
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Invisible Empire: The Global Implications of China’s Engineered Opacity
Understanding China in the 2020s is not merely a methodological challenge; it is an existential one.
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Institutional Barriers to Combat Readiness: The PLA and the Limits of Military Modernization
The world’s largest standing military is constrained not by resources or ambition, but by the very logic of its governing structures.
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Beyond Economics: The Political Fault Lines Fracturing EU-China Relations
The upcoming summit in Beijing may offer a veneer of diplomatic continuity, but the underlying dissonance remains.
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