Volume 18 Issue 12

Articles from Volume 18 Issue 12

Xi’s Economic Deleveraging Campaign and the Limits of Credit Committees

07.10.2018 Matt Schrader

For well over a decade, the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have understood that excess lending by China’s state-directed banks to unproductive, state-linked...

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Chinese Media and Latin America: “Borrowing a Boat” to Set Sail

07.10.2018 Sam Geall

“Though we're geographically distant, we're all developing countries and the progress and well-being of our populations are common objectives,” Liu Biwei, vice-president of the China...

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Global Religion and the United Front: The Case of Mongolia

07.10.2018 Miguel Martin

‘Sinified’ religion has a role to play in Xi's elevation of the United Front (UF) into a foreign policy tool. Informed by Qing imperial policy,...

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Hard Edges of China’s Soft Power Projection Meeting Increasing Resistance

07.10.2018 Willy Wo-Lap Lam

The hard edges of China’s global soft power projection have been put under the microscope in a June 19 White House document entitled How China’s...

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Hedging Against the Unknown: PRC Media Coverage of the Sino-US Trade War

07.10.2018 Xiaolin Duan

US President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on foreign washing machines and solar products in January touched off a cycle of trade escalations between the...

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