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Critical Questions
China’s Fifth Plenum: Reading the Initial Tea Leaves
October 30, 2020 | Jude Blanchette, Scott Kennedy The Chinese Communist Party this week held the Fifth Plenum of the 19th Communist Party Central Committee. CSIS’s Jude Blanchette and Scott Kennedy break down what it means for China’s economic vision, its role in the world, and Xi Jinping’s hold on power.

Commentary
Dual Circulation and China’s New Hedged Integration Strategy
August 24, 2020 | Jude Blanchette, Andrew Polk Beijing believes decoupling is the new normal, and its new "dual circulation" strategy is its answer to an increasingly bifurcated global economy. Will the new policy framework help China navigate evolving geopolitical realities?

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The United States Has Gotten Tough on China. When Will It Get Strategic?
July 17, 2020 | Jude Blanchette Recent U.S. actions appear on the surface to be “standing up” to China. In reality, they leave the United States impoverished and unmoored, all the while doing little to shake or adjust Beijing’s long-term ambitions.

Commentary
Options on Hong Kong: A Suggested NSC Memo
June 2, 2020 | Jude Blanchette, Victor Cha, Bonnie S. Glaser, Michael J. Green, Scott Kennedy Beijing’s decision to pass a national security law that could impose restrictions on Hong Kong citizens’ civil liberties presents the United States and the international community with hard choices. CSIS Asia experts outline U.S. policy options in a notional NSC memo.

Commentary
China’s Digital Silk Road after the Coronavirus
April 13, 2020 | Jude Blanchette, Jonathan E. Hillman China’s technology ambitions appeared imperiled by Covid-19, but the pandemic is already providing new opportunities for China’s rise as a technology power and global provider of digital infrastructure.

Commentary
Coronavirus Update: Rapid Construction of Medical Facilities
February 20, 2020 | J. Stephen Morrison, Jude Blanchette, Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. CSIS experts analyze new satellite imagery showing that the Chinese government has made exceptional progress in constructing two emergency medical facilities in Wuhan.

Critical Questions
The Novel Coronavirus Outbreak
January 28, 2020 | J. Stephen Morrison, Jude Blanchette, Scott Kennedy, Stephanie Segal A new coronavirus rattles China and threatens to become a global pandemic. CSIS’s J. Stephen Morrison, Jude Blanchette, Scott Kennedy, and Stephanie Segal weigh in on the global health security, economic, and political implications of the cascading outbreak of 2019-nCoV.

Commentary
Beijing Wants to Preserve the Status Quo in Iran
January 13, 2020 | Jude Blanchette, Bonnie S. Glaser CSIS’s Jude Blanchette and Bonnie S. Glaser argue that a stable Middle East is better for China than a war because China has too much at stake in the region to see it devolve into chaos.

Critical Questions
Xi’s in Charge: What the Fourth Plenum Tells Us about Xi Jinping’s Hold on Power
October 25, 2019 | Jude Blanchette This week, China’s top political leadership will convene in Beijing to discuss governance reform. In this CQ, CSIS’s Jude Blanchette explores what tells us about Xi Jinping’s hold on power.

Commentary
The PRC Turns 70
September 27, 2019 | Jude Blanchette As China prepares to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of its founding, the leadership of the Communist Party of China faces an extraordinary set of domestic and international challenges that look to overshadow the festivities.

Critical Questions
Red Flags: Why Was China’s Fourth Plenum Delayed?
August 30, 2019 | Jude Blanchette

After nearly a yearlong speculation, the Communist Party of China has finally announced the Fourth Plenum of the Central Committee to be held this October. CSIS’s Jude Blanchette and Mingda Qiu explore if an internal power struggle played a role in the delay.

Critical Questions
Whither Hong Kong?
June 14, 2019 | Scott Kennedy While the past two decades have seen multiple large protests in Hong Kong, the CSIS Freeman Chair argues that the scale and breadth of the ongoing clash reflect a deepening discomfort many in Hong Kong feel being under mainland-Chinese rule.

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