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Deng Xiaoping
August 10, 2023
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Win McCormack
The Chinese Kaleidoscope
Where is China actually headed?
June 23, 2023
Magazine
Win McCormack
Black Cat or White Cat
Which will catch the most mice?
March 17, 2023
Magazine
Win McCormack
The Thucydides Trap
Can the United States and China avoid military conflict?
October 27, 2022
Chang Che
How China Forgot Its Decade of Experimentation
China in the 1980s contemplated a more liberal future—then wrote those debates out of its history.
March 26, 2018
Magazine
Karan Mahajan
After the Strongman
A coup in Zimbabwe brought down Robert Mugabe, a liberation hero who became a corrupt dictator. But can this mean the start of a real democratic era?
May 11, 2013
Michael Kimmage
Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher: Kindred Spirits
November 13, 2012
Aaron Friedberg
Not All “Teams of Rivals” Are Made the Same: China’s Disastrously Divided Leadership
February 22, 2012
Andrew J. Nathan
The Partial Reformer
May 5, 2011
Aaron L. Friedberg
Future Tense
January 27, 2011
Joshua Kurlantzick
The Belligerents
March 17, 2010
James Mann
Behold China
July 9, 2001
Lawrence F. Kaplan
Trade Barrier
June 14, 1997
Fredric Dannen
Partners in Crime
February 23, 1980
Jonathan Kaufman
Purging the Posters
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