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december: central meetings chart 2026
Warm welcome all…
Jan 5 • CHINA POLICY team
more rules at the food frontier
CIIE moves from global shopfront to policy gate, where adapting to Beijing’s standards may determine market access
Dec 29, 2025 • CHINA POLICY team
what is the China Standard?
The ‘China Standard’ aims to build a premium, secure home market and then project those rules outward.
Dec 19, 2025 • CHINA POLICY team
Beijing’s new food security atlas
Beijing is redrawing global trade routes to shield itself from geopolitical risk
Dec 2, 2025 • CHINA POLICY team
the new US debate in China
Trump’s return has triggered a sharp reassessment within PRC policy circles about US power and the global ideological order.
Nov 27, 2025 • CHINA POLICY team
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the new US debate in China
Nov 27, 2025 • CHINA POLICY team
Beijing takes the scitech high road I
Sep 21, 2023 • Erlend Ek and Gabriel Wagner
Beijing debates overcapacity
Apr 20, 2024 • CHINA POLICY team
no DeepSeek moment in PRC biotech
Apr 25, 2025 • Selena Guo and CHINA POLICY team

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more rules at the food frontier
CIIE moves from global shopfront to policy gate, where adapting to Beijing’s standards may determine market access
Dec 29, 2025 • CHINA POLICY team
what is the China Standard?
The ‘China Standard’ aims to build a premium, secure home market and then project those rules outward.
Dec 19, 2025 • CHINA POLICY team
Beijing’s new food security atlas
Beijing is redrawing global trade routes to shield itself from geopolitical risk
Dec 2, 2025 • CHINA POLICY team
the new US debate in China
Trump’s return has triggered a sharp reassessment within PRC policy circles about US power and the global ideological order.
Nov 27, 2025 • CHINA POLICY team
are Tibet dams old-style stimulus?
The Yarlung Tsangpo River starts high on the Tibetan Plateau, fed by the Angsi Glacier.
Nov 18, 2025
promise of a joined-up market
Beijing moves to forge a single, centrally-steered national market
Nov 9, 2025 • CHINA POLICY team
demographic shift hits education
demographic waves hit education—what is shifting?
Oct 30, 2025 • CHINA POLICY team
how does Beijing draft the 5-year plan?
The PRC’s upcoming 15th 5-year plan (2026–31) is coming into focus at home and abroad.
Oct 22, 2025 • CHINA POLICY team

Month In Focus

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december: central meetings chart 2026
Warm welcome all…
Jan 5 • CHINA POLICY team
november: mini tactical win for US
macro: imagining the future
Dec 6, 2025 • CHINA POLICY team
october: symmetrical response
warm welcome all…
Nov 13, 2025 • CHINA POLICY team
september: SCO at 25
Warm welcome all…
Oct 13, 2025 • CHINA POLICY team
august: cautious PRC–India reset
Warm welcome all…Beijing is navigating a cautious warming to South Asia as Modi’s visit to China unfolds alongside Wang Yi’s South Asia tour.
Sep 1, 2025 • CHINA POLICY team
july: between ‘opening’ and involution
Warm welcome all…
Aug 4, 2025 • CHINA POLICY team
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two new, two key 两重两新 liǎngzhòngliǎngxīn
Ever rising in Beijing's push to raise consumption, ‘two new’ refers to large-scale equipment upgrades and consumer trade-ins, ranked among the top ten…
Apr 15, 2025
'1992 Consensus' ‘九二共识' jiǔèr gòngshí
The '1992 Consensus' is an understanding purportedly reached between delegates of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC…
Nov 19, 2024
'the Qian Xuesen question' 钱学森之问 Qián Xuésēn zhī wèn
‘Why do our schools fail to produce outstanding scientific and tech talent?’ That is ‘the Qian Xuesen question’.
Nov 12, 2024
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