China’s government has erased Hong Kong’s freedoms since imposing the draconian National Security Law on June 30, 2020. The Chinese government has largely dismantled freedoms of expression, ...

The problem of “formalism” (形式主义) in the Chinese bureaucracy is certainly in the mind of Xi Jinping. The July 30, 2024 Politburo meeting, the first meeting after the Third Plenum, discussed ...

The Chinese government’s recent decision to change its currency regime left markets and government officials scratching their heads. It combined a token revaluation of 2 per cent with a band mechanism ...

President Xi Jinping has spent more than a decade trying to reform the incentive system of China's bureaucracy, especially the incentives for local governments. Xi launched sweeping reforms of the ...