Volume 22 Issue 15

Articles from Volume 22 Issue 15

Beijing Makes a Big Long-term Bet on Nuclear Power

08.12.2022 John S. Van Oudenaren

Last fall, China suffered extensive power outages due to a combination of surging electricity demand and tight supply. A confluence of factors contributed to the...

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The 20th Party Congress: Xi Set to Score Big in Composition of Next Leadership Corps

08.12.2022 Willy Wo-Lap Lam

Introduction Despite the resentment among many top cadres against the personality cult that has been relentlessly built up around President and commander-in-chief Xi Jinping, the...

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Learning from the First Phase of the Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis

08.12.2022 David Chen

In April, I asserted that the lessons learned from Russia’s war in Ukraine might influence China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to “accelerate the timetable for...

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Is China’s Summit Diplomacy in Central and Eastern Europe at a Dead End?

08.12.2022 Bartosz Kowalski

Introduction During a recent phone call between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Polish President Andrzej Duda, the former said that both sides should actively cooperate...

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