Last June’s Israel-Iran conflict became a revealing stress test for Beijing’s Middle East strategy, its role in global ...

Recent rumors and Xi Jinping's absence fueled speculation about his potential departure, intensified by leadership purges and ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s sudden and unexplained absence from the public eye between 21 May and 5 June has raised many ...

Is China facing an economic crisis? Explore potential cracks in the CCP leadership and Xi Jinping's challenges navigating ...

China's Central Military Commission is its smallest in decades highlighting the personalization of Xi Jinping's control even ...

In China, the world is witnessing the possible return of a far more technocratic elite that favors scaling back direct confrontation with the West.

Beijing has pushed back against criticisms over China's industry overcapacity and cheap exports but the price war is ...

In what could be the most dangerous developments in the world today, the Chinese military is tearing itself apart. Xi Jinping has been purging officers for more than a decade. But other officers ...

Unlike his reform-era predecessors, Xi Jinping can’t count on rapid gains in prosperity to underpin support for Communist Party rule.

But the hope that Xi Jinping’s increasingly totalitarian China is likely to “swing” back toward liberalization after his eventual passing is almost certainly fool’s gold.

The entire PRC government was already answerable to Xi in practice, but now it’s more official. Indeed, by all appearances, the Communist Party is happy with Xi’s leadership.

Neil Thomas analyzes the greatest “known unknown” of Chinese politics and argues that Xi is unlikely to anoint a strong successor, Xi's succession will not be tidy, and Xi’s legacy depends on China’s ...