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Cheap Talk: China’s Central Bank Still Struggles to Speak to Markets
February 8, 2021 | Scott Kennedy The People’s Bank of China has gained greater public visibility, but higher authorities within the central government and the Chinese Communist Party still set the agenda and speak most authoritatively for the regime.

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The New Challenge of Communist Corporate Governance
January 15, 2021 The Chinese Communist Party is advancing a new model of corporate governance that seeks to insert the Party directly into certain corporate decisions and increase its overall supervision of the domestic economy.

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Huawei, HONOR, and China’s Evolving State Capitalist Tool Kit
December 11, 2020 Huawei’s recent sale of its HONOR smartphone to a nominally private company demonstrates the blurring of public and private sector in support of CCP objectives, an approach that is one element of China’s evolving economic model that we call “CCP Inc.”

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The Coming NEV War? Implications of China’s Advances in Electric Vehicles
November 18, 2020 | Scott Kennedy Optimism has returned to China’s new-energy vehicles (NEV) sector. But despite the glitzy new models, incremental progress on several fronts, and initial signs of expanding business abroad, China’s NEV sector still faces substantial roadblocks.

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Promote and Build: A Strategic Approach to Digital Authoritarianism
October 15, 2020 | Erol Yayboke, Samuel Brannen Digital authoritarianism transcends boundaries while subverting human rights and democratic principles. This brief presents a strategic approach grounded in fundamental principles and framed around promoting resilience while building affirmative alternatives.

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A Frozen Line in the Himalayas
August 19, 2020 | Richard M. Rossow, Joseph S. Bermudez Jr., Kriti Upadhyaya In this report, CSIS analysts use satellite imagery from Doklam, Bhutan, to underscore India’s growing role as a regional security provider in Asia.

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Allied Economic Forum: Lessons Learned
August 6, 2020 | Dylan Gerstel, Stephanie Segal, Matthew P. Goodman The CSIS Economics Program highlights “lessons learned” from a two-and a half-year dialogue with U.S. allies and partners to guide multilateral economic policy cooperation to respond to challenges related to China’s technology acquisition strategy.

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Is It Possible to Avert Chaos in the Vaccine Scramble?
August 6, 2020 | J. Stephen Morrison, Anna McCaffrey, Katherine E. Bliss In the global scramble for a Covid-19 vaccine, the United States has pursued a nationalist approach. This paper argues that it is in the core national security interests of the United States to adopt a hybrid strategy, one that blends nationalism and internationalism.

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Addressing Forced Labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: Toward a Shared Agenda
July 30, 2020 | Amy K. Lehr Forced labor in Xinjiang may affect products entering the United States and Europe, and implicates global brands. This brief explores the sectors that may be implicated, the relevant sourcing challenges, and opportunities that exist for collective action.

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Washington’s China Policy Has Lost Its Wei
July 27, 2020 | Scott Kennedy Rather than crushing Huawei and decoupling from China, the United States should mitigate the risks posed by China’s high-tech drive while still benefitting from a dynamic global economy.

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Hidden Harbors: China’s State-backed Shipping Industry
July 8, 2020 | Jude Blanchette, Jonathan E. Hillman, Maesea McCalpin China's state-owned and private companies are increasingly dominant across the global maritime supply chain, aided by an opaque system of formal and informal government support that is unrivaled in both its scale and scope.

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The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor at Five
April 2, 2020 | Jonathan E. Hillman, Maesea McCalpin The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a flagship of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has struggled to deliver its promises, according to a new CSIS dataset.

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