Hu Fuming passes away from Covid

Hu Fuming (胡福明), author of the famous May 1978 article “Practice is the sole criterion of truth” (实践是检验真理的唯一标准), passed away…

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The Hidden Significance and Resilience of the Age-Limit Norm of the Chinese Communist Party

Ling Li | In this essay, I point out that the age-limit norm is misrepresented and misperceived in current analyses…

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Big mistakes in the editing of Cai Xia’s article in “Foreign Affairs”

Foreign Affairs has let down Cai Xia in both its editing and its translation of her piece on Xi Jinping…

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Mareike Ohlberg on the role of the Party-state in the “Xinjiang cotton” backlash on Chinese social media

Here’s a guest post, originally a Twitter thread, by Mareike Ohlberg of the German Marshall Fund. It’s a must-read for…

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Statement by sanctioned scholar Jo Smith Finley

Dr. Jo Smith Finley, a Reader in Chinese Studies at Newcastle University, is one of the nine UK citizens recently…

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More on the policy and methodological content of Xi Jinping’s “Marxism”

Yesterday I made the claim that it was meaningless to say that Xi Jinping (or anyone) was a Marxist unless…

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The Longer Blog Post: Comments on American China strategy

The Atlantic Council recently posted an 80-page article entitled The Longer Telegram: Toward a New American China Strategy (a shorter…

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Gang Chen’s case and the future of the China Initiative

The Trump administration capped off its two-year-old China Initiative with the indictment of MIT professor Gang Chen. As I argue…

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Crimes against humanity and genocide in the Uyghur region: Thoughts on the US determination

The following is a guest post from Professor James Millward of Georgetown University, a historian and Xinjiang specialist. The US…

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What would Mao say to Trump if they can have a heart-to-heart now

Just to be fair to Mao, Trump’s attempt to ape the Cultural Revolution (CR) is less than mediocre because he…

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