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An unnamed researcher at the National Development and Reform Commission’s Academy of Macroeconomic Research lays out six areas where China must find “key breakthroughs” to become a high-income country. In addition to domestic reforms, the author calls for the creation of an international environment “conducive to crossing over the middle-income stage.”
How can China overcome the middle-income trap? In this 2016 speech, Yao Yang, Dean of the National School of Development of Peking University, describes how industrialization and manufacturing can help China avoid a prolonged middle-income phase of its development trajectory.
The vice-president of the National Association for Hong Kong and Macau Studies argues that Beijing has moved towards its own position of “strategic clarity” on Taiwan policy.
This is translation of a section of a Q&A series explaining theories from Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, published in the People’s Daily. This section deals with the concept that political security is inseparable from national security, explaining that “political security is directly connected to the life and death of the Party and country”.
Chen Yixin, a high-ranking official at the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission and a possible candidate to take the top spot at the commission at the 20th Party Congress, penned a long, and often hagiographic, analysis of Xi Jinping in a July edition of Study Times, a daily newspaper run by the Central Party School.
With the announcement of the Global Development Initiative in late 2021, important questions were raised about the future of the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI). Here, two scholars from Renmin University argue that the GDI is an addition to, not a replacement of, the BRI.
A researcher from the School of Marxism at the Southwest Jiaotong University argues that China demonstrates a willingness to invest in global development cooperation, whereas the West demonstrates an attitude of “unilateralism, protectionism and egoism.”
A prominent Russia scholar at Fudan University disagrees with the projection that the global system will once again fall into a Cold War-style confrontation and theorizes that the Western and non-Western countries will take diverging paths in global supply chains, global trade, and security architecture.
The Deputy Director of Xiamen University’s Taiwan Research Center argues that while Beijing’s preference remains to “reunify” peacefully, Taiwan “separatists” and the United States are “touching the red line drawn by the mainland.”
The director of China Foreign Affairs University’s National Soft Power Research Center explores the recently proposed Global Development Initiative, arguing that it “adheres to the original mission of the Chinese Communist Party and injects strong ideological impetus to unite all countries in the world for common development and win-win cooperation.”