The China Africa Project
03.31.17

China Spends Billions in Egypt to Woo the Middle East

Eric Olander, Cobus van Staden & more

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz’s recent state visit to Beijing is the latest evidence that China is maneuvering to play a bigger role in the Middle...

Media
11.09.15

Can the China Model Succeed?

Daniel A. Bell, Timothy Garton Ash & more
Is this a new model? Is authoritarian capitalism, Leninist capitalism, something that has durability? Have the rules changed about how countries develop? That used to be, remember, that open markets led ineluctably to open societies. How does it...
Viewpoint
11.05.15

The Problem With the China Model

Andrew J. Nathan

The ideological competition between democracy and authoritarianism was supposed to have died with the Cold War. But it has returned with a vengeance, powered above all by the rise of China. Now comes a book by a respected scholar...

Conversation
10.16.15

Is There a China Model?

Daniel A. Bell, Timothy Garton Ash & more

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Viewpoint
09.21.15

A New Book Praises China’s Governance Model, But Overlooks Its Politics

Thomas Kellogg

On August 12, China once again met with man-made tragedy. Massive explosions at a chemical storage warehouse in Tianjin took the lives of 173 people and injured nearly 700, some of them seriously. The owner of the warehouse that blew up, Rui Hai...

Books
02.12.13

Zhao Ziyang and China’s Political Future

Wu Guoguang

What legacies have previous reformers like Zhao Ziyang left to today’s China? Does China have feasible political alternatives to today’s repressive ‘market Leninism’ and corrupt ‘state capitalism’? Does Zhao’s legacy indicate an alternative to the past and for the future?