The Prize: Why Taiwan and its Place in the Global Semiconductor Supply Chain Matter to the United States
An Assessment of the Russian Airborne Troops and Their Role on Tomorrow’s Battlefield
Islamic State’s Pakistan Province Launches New Jihadist Magazine
The 2021 Party History Study Campaign Stresses Revolution and Sacrifice
On June 15, Qiushi, the leading theoretical journal of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) published an article by CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) titled, “Taking history as a mirror, use history to demonstrate convictions,... MORE
Looking Back on Short Flashes of Liberalization in the Chinese Communist Party’s 100 Years
Introduction After Mao Zedong (毛泽东, 1893-1976) became the undisputed leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1936, he began a thorough-going purge of the party’s earliest generation of free-thinking intellectuals in the temporary party... MORE
Military Political Work at the CCP’s Centennial
Introduction The phrase “military political work” (军队政治工作, jundui zhengzhi gongzuo) is an overarching term that describes all the efforts and activities of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) aimed at managing human capital and influencing the... MORE
Globalizing Leninist Institutions: Trends in Overseas Party Building
Introduction The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Organization Department’s initiatives to build an organizational infrastructure with global reach evoke China’s revolutionary tradition, drawing lessons from history as the CCP prepares to celebrate its centennial this year.... MORE
Post-Reform Developments in Village and Neighborhood Party Building
Introduction The Chinese President Xi Jinping (习近平) has repeatedly mentioned local governance capacity when reflecting on China’s successful management of the Covid-19 pandemic, crediting the active participation of grassroots organizations in the public health response... MORE
Editor’s Note to the Special Issue on the Chinese Communist Party (June 2021)
Editor’s Note: This is a special theme issue of China Brief, taking the opportunity of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s upcoming centennial celebrations (on July 1) to focus analysis on the CCP’s past, present and... MORE
How Nordic Countries are Handling the Question of Repatriating Islamic State Women
As the self-styled Islamic State (IS) “caliphate” collapsed in March 2019, the international community was faced with the problem of more than 70,000 IS family members stranded in Syria. The Kurdish Peshmerga gathered these family... MORE
Somaliland Elections Disrupt al-Shabaab’s Regional Expansion
On May 31, the independent, but unrecognized, Republic of Somaliland held parliamentary and local district elections. These internationally observed elections, which saw a high turnout of 1.1 million registered voters in Somaliland, were peaceful and... MORE
Pakistan’s TTP Mounts Comeback Under New Leadership of Wali Mehsud
On May 5, four Pakistani soldiers were killed and six injured on the Pakistani-Afghan border in the Baluchistan region when militants opened fire from Afghan territory, where Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) still enjoys safe haven (Dawn,... MORE