Beijing’s Trade War With EU Betrays Weakness, Not Strength
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to Chinese leader Xi Jinping (unseen) during a meeting in Beijing on Dec. 4, 2025.…
Operation Economic Fury Targets the CCP’s Financial Heartbeat
Thinking About ChinaOpinionThe era of U.S. ’strategic ambiguity' toward China is over as the Trump administration targets adversarial regimes’ financial…
The Great Retreat: Beijing’s Digital Currency Ambitions Are Faltering
The world’s largest totalitarian regime that prides itself on ’social engineering‘ has hit a ’Great Wall' of human resistance and…
How the Iran War and US Policy Are Reshaping—and Threatening—China’s Economy
New energy shocks from the Middle East are accelerating structural changes inside China’s energy grid.Tankers sail in the Gulf, near…
China’s De-Dollarization Push Meets Washington’s Defense of the Dollar
Thinking About ChinaOpinionChina is trying multiple ways to undermine the dollar to gain financial supremacy.U.S. dollar bills in Washington on…
‘Out of Africa’—Beijing Slashes Investment Up to 85 Percent
ADWhat does that say about the state of China’s economy?A general view of a Chinese military vessel docked at the…
The Big Choice: Western Europe Must Decide Between US Tariffs and Chinese Theft at Scale
U.S. President Donald Trump announces a trade deal with the EU after a meeting with President of the European Commission…
The Evergrande Collapse: A Reckoning for China’s Economy and the CCP
As China’s economic stability continues to deteriorate, Evergrande’s delisting from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange signals the end of the…
Can the US Counter China’s Rare Earth Dominance?
Beijing’s stranglehold on rare earth refining gives it geopolitical leverage.A man driving a front loader shifts soil containing rare earth…
No Escape? China Stopping Foreign Executives From Leaving
A security guard guides passengers at Beijing Capital International Airport in China on July 6, 2025. Wang Zhao/AFP via Getty…
China’s New Law Legalizes Stealing Foreign IP
Motorists ride past a screen showing China’s gross domestic product (GDP) in the Jing'an district of Shanghai, China, on April…