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Volume 22 Issue 24

December 30, 2022

• Editor’s Note: Special Issue-Chinese Foreign Policy at a Crossroads
• Finland and the Demise of China’s Polar Silk Road
• China Makes a Move in the Middle East: How Far Will Sino-Arab Strategic Rapprochement Go?
• The Caribbean and U.S.-China Strategic Competition: Next Phase of the New Cold War?
• China-Pakistan Relations: The “All-Weather” Partnership Navigates Stormy Times

Volume 22 Issue 23

December 22, 2022

• Will a Successor to Xi Jinping Emerge from the Party’s Seventh-Generation Leadership?
• PLA Blows Hot and Cold over U.S. Air Force’s Multirole Heavy Aircraft
• The Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway and the Future of the Belt and Road Initiative
• An International Lifeline: Taiwan’s Parliamentary Outreach
• History and Heritage: As COVID Misery Mounts, Xi Looks to the Past for Lessons and Legitimacy

Volume 22 Issue 22

December 8, 2022

• Meloni at the Helm: What Does Italy’s New Government Mean for Sino-Italian Relations?
• Will Mass Protests Force Xi to Change Course on Zero-COVID?
• Predicting China’s Next Foreign Minister: Key Factors and Policy Implications
• Keep Calm and Carry On: Xi Jinping Takes a Page From the Book of Jiang Zemin
• The 20th Central Military Commission: Personnel and Priorities

Volume 22 Issue 21

November 18, 2022

• The Changing Paradigms of Taiwan’s Grand Strategy
• The Long Shadow of the 1962 War and the China-India Border Dispute
• Managing the PLA’s Military Diplomacy: Key Institutions and Personnel
• “Unity and Struggle”: The Campaign to Study the 20th Party Congress
• China’s Economy: More Debt than Meets the Eye

Volume 22 Issue 20

November 3, 2022

• Upcoming G20 Summit Spotlights Close but Complicated Relationship Between Xi and Indonesia’s Jokowi
• China Increases Support for Pakistan’s Naval Modernization with an Eye on the Indian Ocean
• The Russia-Ukraine War: Has Beijing Abandoned Pragmatic Diplomacy?
• The 20th Party Congress: Xi Jinping Exerts Overwhelming Control Over Personnel, but Offers No Clues on Reviving the Economy
• “Yan’an Spirit”: The Rise of Xi’s Lieutenants

Volume 22 Issue 19

October 19, 2022

• The Ukraine Crisis and China-India Relations
• The Life and Death of United Front Promises From Revolution to (Re)-Unification Past, Present and Future
• The 20th Party Congress is Underway: Will Xi’s Men Dominate the Next Politburo?
• The Zhejiang Model: Old-New Tools for Managing Contradictions and Creating Win-Win Outcomes in Center-Local Governance
• Can Beijing be Flexible on U.S. Policy?

Volume 22 Issue 18

October 4, 2022

• Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy: Roadmap to Global Leadership?
• Exploring the Domestic Foundations of Chinese Economic Sanctions: The Case of Australia
• The PLA’s Military Diplomacy in Advance of the 20th Party Congress (Part Two)
• The Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis: What did the August Exercises Around Taiwan Accomplish?
• China’s Interests in Afghanistan One Year After the U.S. Withdrawal

Volume 22 Issue 17

September 20, 2022

• Editor’s Introduction—Special Issue on the 20th Party Congress: The Xi Era Enters its Second Decade
• The 20th Party Congress and the Future of Elite Politics in China: An Interview with Willy Wo-Lap Lam
• The Economic Outlook for Xi's Third Term: Mounting Challenges, Dwindling Fiscal and Monetary Options
• Will PLA Modernization Continue Apace in Xi’s Second Decade?
• Beijing Signals a Harder Line Policy on Taiwan Through the 20th Party Congress and Beyond
• All the President’s Men – Corruption in the Xi Jinping Era

Volume 22 Issue 16

September 9, 2022

• Make the Green Serve China: PRC Influence Operations Target International Environmentalism
• The Russia-India-China Trilateral After Ukraine: Will Beijing Take the Lead?
• The PLA’s Military Diplomacy in Advance of the 20th Party Congress (Part One)
• Will the Xi Jinping Leadership Take Up Reformist Policies After the 20th Party Congress?
• Are Cross-Strait Relations Dead?

Volume 22 Issue 15

August 12, 2022

• With an Eye on Tibet, China Reacts Warily to Warming U.S.-Nepal Ties
• Is China’s Summit Diplomacy in Central and Eastern Europe at a Dead End?
• Beijing Makes a Big Long-term Bet on Nuclear Power
• Learning from the First Phase of the Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis
• The 20th Party Congress: Xi Set to Score Big in Composition of Next Leadership Corps

Volume 22 Issue 14

July 29, 2022

• Economic Woes Worsen as Support for Xi Jinping’s Leadership Begins to Falter
• The Real U.S.-China 5G Contest is Just Getting Started
• China Pushes for Maritime Preeminence in the Yellow Sea
• Regulations or Restrictions: China’s Foreign Exchange Control
• Security Dialogues with Chinese Characteristics

Volume 22 Issue 13

July 15, 2022

• Twin Soliloquies in the South Pacific: China and the West Pursue Pacific Island Nations
• Will the China-Pakistan Corridor Get a Boost with a New Government in Islamabad?
• Beijing’s Propaganda Support for Russian Biological Warfare Disinformation, Part 2: Historical Context and Contemporary Motivations
• PLA Air Force Remedies Self-Defeating Training Culture
• China’s Shifting Approach to Alliance Politics

Volume 22 Issue 12

July 1, 2022

• No Choice but to Lie Flat: Youth Unemployment Surges in China
• Despite Threats, New Survey Data Reveals Few in Taiwan Pay Much Attention to China
• With Macron’s Return to Elysée, What’s Next for China-France Relations?
• 16 + 1: China’s Push Into Central and Eastern Europe Loses Momentum
• Divergent Economic and Ideological Visions Contend Ahead of 20th Party Congress

Volume 22 Issue 11

June 17, 2022

• The Enemy of My Friend Remains My Friend: China’s Ukraine Dilemma
• Who Will Hold "The Barrel of a Gun" in Xi's Third Term?: Recent PLA Promotions and the Outlook for the Next Central Military Commission
• Beijing’s Propaganda Support for Russian Biological Warfare Disinformation, Part 1: Accusations Concerning the War in Ukraine
• Unemployment Monitoring and Early Warning: New Trends in Xinjiang’s Coercive Labor Placement Systems
• Xi Seeks to Accelerate China's Drive for Self-sufficiency

Volume 22 Issue 10

May 27, 2022

• Mongolia’s Currency Crisis: Made in China?
• China and Sri Lanka’s Debt Crisis: Belt and Road Initiative Blowback
• China’s “Dynamic Zero-COVID” Policy Weighs on a Weak Global Economy
• China Closes its Windows to the World: When Will They Reopen?
• Xi Jinping is Poised to Become “Leader for Life” in Exchange for Sharing Politburo Seats with Rivals

Volume 22 Issue 9

May 13, 2022

• Future Global Policeman? The Growing Extraterritorial Reach of PRC Law Enforcement
• Powering the PLA Abroad: How the Chinese Military Might Fuel Its Overseas Presence
• Another Potemkin Visit? Rethinking the UN Human Rights Chief’s Upcoming Trip to Xinjiang
• China’s New Global Security Initiative: Power Play?
• Xi Jinping Revives Pro-market Policies to Bolster Economy Ahead of 20th Party Congress

Volume 22 Issue 8

April 29, 2022

• China’s 2022 Defense Budget: Behind the Numbers
• Why China Funds Renewable Energy at Home, but Invests in Fossil Fuel Projects Overseas
• Tonga, Fiji, and Kiribati: U.S.-China Competition Heats Up in the Pacific
• The Storms to Come: China and Natural Disasters
• Shifting China-NATO Relations: From Selective Cooperation to Strategic Rivalry?

Volume 22 Issue 7

April 8, 2022

• China’s Contorted Response to Russia Sanctions
• China’s Declining Influence in Nepal: Implications for the U.S. and India
• China and the Ongoing Political Crisis in Pakistan
• Lessons of Ukraine Raise Doubts about PLA Modernization
• Strange Days in Shanghai

Volume 22 Issue 6

March 25, 2022

• Xi Jinping Ponders Aid to Russia even as Beijing Reaffirms its Quasi-Alliance with Moscow
• Using the Enemy to Train the Troops—Beijing’s New Approach to Prepare its Navy for War
• Organized Crime on the Belt and Road
• The Beijing Olympics in Retrospect: An Anti-Human Rights Politics Machine
• China and the International Arms Trade

Volume 22 Issue 5

March 11, 2022

• At National People’s Congress, Strong Emphasis on Stability Militates Against Reform
• An Iron Idol Turns to Clay: Xi Faces Neo-Dengist Opposition
• All Eyes on the Ministry of Veterans Affairs
• China and Russia: Shackled to a Corpse?
• Why Beijing Wants the Dalai Lama to Reincarnate

Volume 22 Issue 4

February 25, 2022

• Gay in the PLA: Chinese Military Views on Homosexuals Serving in the Armed Forces
• Trouble in Paradise: China’s Influence and Unrest in the Solomon Islands
• Extensive China-EU Economic Linkages Persist Despite Growing Divide on Democracy and Human Rights
• Military Operations Other Than War: Antidote to the PLA’s “Peace Disease”?
• City of Vice: Macau, Gambling, and Organized Crime in China

Volume 22 Issue 3

February 11, 2022

• All Necessary Measures: China’s Shifting Approach to U.S.-Taiwan Relations
• The Evolution of the PLA’s Enlisted Force: Training (Part Two)
• China and Pakistan: Strains in the All-Weather Partnership?
• Chinese Security Narratives in the New Afghan Context: Xinjiang and the Recycling of the “ETIM” Threat
• What is at Stake in China-Bhutan Boundary Negotiations?

Volume 22 Issue 2

January 28, 2022

• Vladimir Putin’s Mission to Beijing
• As Rival Factions Gain Traction, Xi Seeks to Secure Support from the Military
• The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Hits Bottom in Balochistan
• Warnings from PLA Ships in the Western Pacific Ocean
• China-Lithuania Tensions Boil Over Taiwan

Volume 22 Issue 1

January 14, 2022

• The Evolution of the PLA’s Enlisted Force: Conscription and Recruitment (Part One)
• A Bitter Winter: Omicron Tests the Limits of China’s Zero-COVID Approach
• China’s Next Generation Infrastructure Development in Tibet: Implications for India
• The China-India-Pakistan Triangle: China Strengthens Ties with Pakistan Amid Border Standoff with India
• The U.S.-China Perception Gap: A Recipe for Disaster?