NSD dean calls for employment-first AI innovation, warning that productivity gains could leave workers’ wages stagnant for ...

SCSPI director says the two countries face difficult technical hurdles, and even a final agreement would not bind China.

On 1 June 2026, the OECD released its MAGIC Database of Industrial Subsidies, an attempt to quantify the government support received by large manufacturing firms around the world. The report found ...

China's opinion page B. Click to read The East is Read, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Huawei has responded to one of China’s most talked-about online controversies in recent days, after a traditional bamboo toy unexpectedly sparked a public debate over how a company that has become ...

With Xi Jinping expected in Washington soon, now seems as good a time as any to unpack one of the more consequential phrases to emerge from the latest round of China–U.S. diplomacy: “a constructive ...

China’s rural reform is commonly recounted as a series of policy breakthroughs, above all the shift from collective to household farming. Zhao Shukai, however, argues that the political changes that ...

As the Donald Trump administration and the Russian government agree to work together on ending the Ukraine war and lay out potential terms without Ukrainian and European input, I thought it would be ...

Zhang Jun believes that China's economic slowdown, often referred to as "L-shaped," is not a short-term recession but an inevitable, prolonged trend of slowing growth. Consequently, the focus should ...

Below is a Q&A with Henry Huiyao Wang, founder and president of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s latest meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump ...

Beijing has long framed its fight against inequality in a vocabulary of its own, built around a three-stage taxonomy of income allocation: primary distribution, meaning wages and returns to capital; ...