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The Iran War Is Not Part of a Grand Strategy Targeting China
Grand strategy works in video games. Reality doesn't have a national focus tree
Mar 14
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Fred Gao
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They Built China With Their Land and Sweat-It’s Time to Raise Their Pensions
Rural Pensions Average Just 200 Yuan a Month. At the Two Sessions, Delegates Are Pushing for More
Mar 10
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Fred Gao
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Shenzhen Puts Real Money Behind the World's First OpenClaw Support Policy
Longgang District is offering subsidized hardware, free housing, three months of free compute, and up to 10 million yuan in equity investment to anyone…
Mar 8
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Fred Gao
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A Silent Handover-How Automation Is Transforming Jobs in China’s Manufacturing Sector
Jul 22, 2025
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Fact-Checking "Beijing Is Failing to Solve Its Involution Problem"
Sep 11, 2025
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David Fishman
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How Chinese Scholars See the U.S. Lawfare Against Venezuela
Jan 5
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Fred Gao
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From the Zhou Court to Washington
Jan 3
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Fred Gao
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What I Learned from China's "Industrial Party"
Jan 22
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Fred Gao
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"The Beauty of Economic Upswing"
Sep 17, 2025
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Fred Gao
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Reading China's 2026 Government Work Report and the NDRC's Plan for National Economic and Social Development
Overall, the 2026 Government Work Report (GWR) and the NDRC's Draft Plan for National Economic and Social Development strike a consistent and notably…
Mar 5
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Fred Gao
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What to Watch at the Two Sessions
Industrial policy discipline, consumption reform, and the demand-side plays hiding behind the welfare headlines
Mar 2
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Fred Gao
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Xi-Merz Meeting
Decoding Beijing's readout of the Xi-Merz meeting & joint press statement
Feb 25
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Fred Gao
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Roundup: Wang Yi at the Munich Security Conference
China to provide energy aid package for Ukraine, A revived trilateral with France and Germany
Feb 15
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Fred Gao
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Is China's Trade-In Policy Working?
Economist Li Xunlei calls for shifting from subsidizing durables to boosting services, jobs, and incomes for the many
Feb 11
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Fred Gao
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A Ground-Level View of China's Economic Transition
Professors Yao Yang and Nie Huihua on automation, employment, and the policy challenges ahead
Feb 8
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Fred Gao
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Reading China's 2026 No.1 Document
Numerical targets, structural reshuffling, and a pivot toward quality over quantity
Feb 4
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Fred Gao
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Top Chinese IR Scholar Suggests a Fourth US-China Communiqué Could Be Coming
Chinese scholar Zhao Hai and Harvard's Graham Allison floated the possibility at Davos
Jan 29
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Fred Gao
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Yan Xuetong's Outlook of China-U.S. Competition in 2035
Leading Chinese realist scholar forecasts a new era of intense but managed strategic competition, where power parity fosters stability, not war
Jan 27
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Fred Gao
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