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Leading experts contextualize and interpret the significance of select translated documents to facilitate a more nuanced, comprehensive understanding of China’s aims and ambitions by policymakers and the public.
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Economic policy
Focus on Food Security in the 2022 No. 1 Central Document
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Keeping with a long-standing tradition, the first State Council policy document in the new year focuses on supporting and developing rural areas, with a special focus on ensuring food security. Trivium China’s Even Pay puts the document in the context of Beijing’s overall policy agenda.

Politburo meetings
March 17 2022 CCP Politburo Standing Committee meeting
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As China encounters a surge of COVID-19 across many cities, the Politburo Standing Committee convened to determine the country’s pandemic prevention strategy.

Foreign Policy
How Will Russia’s War in Ukraine Impact Sino-Russian Relations?
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After three decades of progressive strengthening, Sino-Russian relations are being put to the test after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Three experts assess how the ongoing conflict will impact the future of the bilateral relationship.

Politburo meetings
February 2022 Politburo Meeting
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The Politburo’s February meeting convened to deliberate on a draft of the upcoming Government Work Report, a report on central inspection tour work, and a work report on central party discipline inspections.

Politburo meetings
January 2022 Politburo Meeting
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Politburo’s first meeting of the new year included deliberations on the report on the work of leading Party members groups within top state organs and the upcoming Regulations on Public Petitioning.

Discussions
Translation Matters: Problems of Inference in the 2020 State Department Policy Planning Report “The Elements of the China Challenge”
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As the United States gears up for “great power competition” with the People’s Republic of China (PRC), accurate translation of Chinese sources is increasingly important. Different translations can lead to different inferences about intentions, which in turn can affect policy analysis. As an example, this article looks at the November 2020 study on China by the Department of State’s Policy Planning Office, which made key inferences about China’s long-term intentions based, in part, on a problematic translation and decontextualization of key phrases in a speech by China’s leader, Xi Jinping.

Economic policy
China’s Shifting Technology Ambitions
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Can China achieve its technological ambitions through industrial policy? What barriers remain in their way? How do changes in the international environment impact their success? Three experts discuss the latest trends and developments in the tech policy space.

Economic policy
Can Xi Jinping Achieve ‘Common Prosperity’?
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What does Xi Jinping’s ‘common prosperity’ initiative entail? How realistic is it, and what impact will this have on economic policy? Leading experts discuss what ‘common prosperity’ is, and isn’t.