Two Chinese grand strategists cautioned the perils of seeing the world only through China’s (imagined) glory or America’s shadow, and advised that China should just be a normal nation-state.| Pekingnology
With the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations, China's leading America watcher shares personal stories, assesses growing strategic rivalry, & explains why dialogue matters more than ever| Pekingnology
Crossroads for Luo Yonghao - and maybe other podcasters as well?| Pekingnology
Stop Discarding Half the Evidence: China’s Peace Rhetoric, Its Red Lines, and How to Read Both.| Pekingnology
A Shift Toward Regional Coordination Is Needed in the Face of Doubts and Opposition from Regional Countries and U.S. Stigmatization| Pekingnology
The top official newspaper offers a peek into the overbuilt and wasted transportation infrastructure in China's northernmost province.| www.pekingnology.com
What did Jack Ma, DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng, and BYD's Wang Chuanfu hear from China's top leader?| Pekingnology
Renowned CASS veteran on how Trump’s negative-sum approach to China fits into a wider contest over rules, resilience, and the shape of world order.| Pekingnology
CCG President says seven-party talks in Beijing leading to a U.N.-backed peacekeeping force could help secure peace.| www.pekingnology.com
Dong Yu, now at Tsinghua, says via state media that Beijing-decreed, central govt bond-backed construction will continue into the next five years.| www.pekingnology.com
No More Moralizing & Whining| www.pekingnology.com
Membership in EU but not NATO - essentially a neutral Ukraine, backed by EU & Russia| www.pekingnology.com
"Measure Russia with reason," says the Chinese professor & expert on Russia| www.pekingnology.com
None of this is to glorify WeChat itself – it’s simply the reality of China’s digital ecosystem today.| www.pekingnology.com
Treating two plant pathologists with no paperwork as though they were biowarfare saboteurs is an exercise in political theater, not prudent security| Pekingnology
CCG President writes in South China Morning Post that the question is not whether China is leading the world but whether it can sell its climate leadership fast enough to build a better future.| Pekingnology
Lu Dadao of the Chinese Academy of Sciences warns that oversized, underused HSR infrastructure has ignored basic economic logic, weakened public finances, and derailed regional planning.| Pekingnology
Beijing clarifies its deal with Washington didn't include NVIDIA’s 4th-best AI chip, disputing widely-reported comments by U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick| Pekingnology
The renowned Fudan scholar unpacks the mega trends and concrete challenges that the Global South has to navigate in a dramatically shifted landscape.| Pekingnology
How Exaggerated Risks and Hypothetical Threats Undermine Credible Analysis of Chinese Port Investments in LAC| Pekingnology
Desperate father stole to fund his son's leukaemia treatment, but a four-year sentence meant he missed the child’s final breath.| Pekingnology
Former Central Party School economist says dismantling institutional constraints is China's ONLY way toward medium-high growth and avoiding poverty.| www.pekingnology.com
The senior opinion leader once disparaged as representing strident nationalism is now vocally against it, saying "China must stablize its relations with the entire West as much as possible."| www.pekingnology.com
Beijing recognizes Trump's latest exemptions as a small step in the right direction| www.pekingnology.com
The well-connected opinion leader says, in his post informed by "sources," Beijing could suspend fentanyl cooperation and target U.S. agricultural, poultry, services, film, and IP exports.| www.pekingnology.com
Former Vice President of the Bank of China argues USD-backed tokens boost U.S. strategic advantage—and pose a challenge for China.| www.pekingnology.com
National security must have its boundaries, says the top Chinese IR scholar.| www.pekingnology.com
Top IR scholar preaches "more on academics, less on policy and online fame"| www.pekingnology.com
China's eminent IR professor highlights steering clear from anonymous or pseudonymous opinions and influencers, and staying vigilant on written history.| www.pekingnology.com
Book excerpt from "Embedded Power: Chinese Government and Economic Development"| www.pekingnology.com
And why I keep covering the former Taiwanese leader in Pekingnology.| www.pekingnology.com
Reflecting on 2 decades since the 2005 meeting in Beijing, the former Taiwan leader calls on William Ching-te Lai to abandon “independence fantasies” and restore peaceful cooperation.| www.pekingnology.com
Leading historian on a model of Chinese unity: what are the essentials to break the legacy of forced unification and sustain long-term national stability| www.pekingnology.com
Govt-linked social media accounts in China post messages that appear to set the stage for tariff negotiations.| www.pekingnology.com
The former Taiwan leader reiterates that under his eight-year leadership, "cross-strait relations were peaceful and stable." He also recalls meeting the Holy Father as President of the ROC in 2013.| www.pekingnology.com
A review of the SCMP's recent cable-cutting blockbuster and 8 other science stories in the past year.| www.pekingnology.com
72-year-old PKU professor details the development of administrative law, its effects on the Chinese people and the Communist Party of China, and vows continuous effort toward democracy & rule of law| www.pekingnology.com
Transcript of the Chinese top diplomat's speech and conversation with the Chairman of the Munich Security Conference.| www.pekingnology.com
Zhejiang Publicity says "DeepSeek’s greatest strength lies in its open-source approach, which empowers researchers worldwide."| www.pekingnology.com
Interest rate, govt spending, consumption, and housing are all SECONDARY to freedom and law, the prominent PKU economist highlights, adding Beijing should actively shape its external environment.| www.pekingnology.com
They know Beijing’s “reluctance to directly distribute money to the people is still quite evident” and want to change decision-makers' minds. Will they succeed?| www.pekingnology.com
Dean of PKU National School of Development proposes including SOEs in govt budget to prevent new debt risks| www.pekingnology.com
Former Finance Minister says Beijing must spend more via fiscal deficits and centralize responsibilities, rather than delegating them locally. Also, raise the retirement age and VAT rate, he says.| www.pekingnology.com
Shuchen Xiang's provocative defense of a forgotten Chinese approach to identity and difference| www.pekingnology.com
Eric Shufu Li's multi-billion-dollar company bought Volvo, Lotus and just created a joint venture with Renault. This is career in his own telling.| www.pekingnology.com
Pascale Massot's new book finds China behaves as much in an unplanned as a structured way and provides an alternative lens through which to think about international Chinese economic behavior.| www.pekingnology.com
PKU's Muyang Chen argues in her book that China’s rise yields more than a rivalry, and its impact varies by issue area.| www.pekingnology.com
The Fudan University professor's How China Works: An Introduction to China’s State-led Economic Development, translated from his 2021 Chinese domestic bestseller, is now available in English.| www.pekingnology.com
The smiling Chinese President responds to "Peak China," opens door to broader China-U.S. people-to-people exchanges, and looks forward to "better" China-U.S. relations.| www.pekingnology.com
From Luo Zhiheng at Yuekai Securities and Huang Shouhong, lead drafter of the govt work report, respectively.| www.pekingnology.com
Beijing mulls "not only the sequel of practice...since the 3rd Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, but also...a new chapter of advancing Chinese modernization"| www.pekingnology.com
Victims, all female, recall being tricked and pressured by U.S. Customs officials into signing documents without being informed of the content and alterations in their interview records.| www.pekingnology.com
The senior economist says the contributions are relatively small, but the Chinese have now achieved lift-off and can summarize theories of general significance from China’s particular experience.| www.pekingnology.com
Dean of the National School of Development at Peking University looks at how Chinese economics evolved from the planned economy era.| www.pekingnology.com
The Tsinghua law professor on why China's unprecedented judicial transparency project faces challenges and how to pragmatically improve it within the current framework.| www.pekingnology.com
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"Starting with improving psychological expectations in society and boosting confidence in development”: private economy, tech companies, real estate, CPTPP, foreign investment, etc.| www.pekingnology.com