by | Aug 17, 2026 | News
China’s leadership is busy making the past useful again. In Beijing, that means celebrating the reform-era legacy of Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji while carefully sanding down the bits that look awkward in 2026: political repression, mass layoffs, deepening inequality...
by | Aug 1, 2026 | News
Three developments this week reveal three very different, but deeply connected, weaknesses in China’s current model: A biotechnology sector racing ahead of credible safeguards, a foreign-policy machine willing to make smaller countries pay for great-power competition,...