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China: Back to the Future

May 10, 2018 issue

The Chinese World Order

Competition, friction, and testing between the United States and China are unavoidable, probably for decades.

The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World’s Most Dynamic Region

by Michael R. Auslin

Post-Western World: How Emerging Powers Are Remaking Global Order

by Oliver Stuenkel

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?

by Graham Allison

October 12, 2017 issue

China: The Struggle at the Top

Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era: Reassessing Collective Leadership

by Cheng Li

China’s Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay

by Minxin Pei

February 9, 2017 issue

Who Is Kim Jong-un?

The weakest power in Northeast Asia manages to defy all the others

Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950–1992

by Charles K. Armstrong

Marked for Life: Songbun, North Korea’s Social Classification System

by Robert Collins

The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia

by Andrei Lankov

Pyongyang Republic: North Korea’s Capital of Human Rights Denial

by Robert Collins

The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves—And Why It Matters

by B.R. Myers

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August 18, 2016 issue

Who Is Xi?

A leader in some ways more powerful than Deng or even Mao

Xi Zhongxun zhuan [Biography of Xi Zhongxun]

by the Editorial Committee for the Biography of Xi Zhongxun

Xi Jinping: Red China, the Next Generation

by Agnès Andrésy

Zoubutong de “hongse diguo zhilu” [The “Road of Red Empire” That Cannot Be Traversed]

an article by Li Weidong

China’s Future

by David Shambaugh

May 12, 2016 issue

The Truth About Tiananmen

March 6, 2014 issue

China’s New Rulers: What They Want

October 10, 2002 issue

China’s New Rulers: The Path to Power

September 26, 2002 issue

Human Rights in China

June 14, 1990 issue