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The President’s Inbox Recap: China’s Underground HistoriansChinese filmmakers, journalists, and artists are challenging the Chinese Communist Party’s version of history.
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CFR Fellows' Book Launch Series: Sparks—China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future by Ian JohnsonIan Johnson discusses his new book, Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future, which describes how some of China’s best-known writers, filmmakers, and artists have overcome crackdowns and censorship to forge a nationwide movement that challenges the Communist Party on its most hallowed ground: its control of history.
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Remember These Rising Political Stars?The ebb and flow of these former Chinese rising political stars’ careers provides insights into the intricacies of Chinese elite politics (and the fate of Qin Gang).
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The Contentious U.S.-China Trade RelationshipTrade between the world’s two biggest economies has ballooned in recent decades, bringing significant benefits but also perils that have led to calls to rethink the relationship.
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The GOP's Posturing Will Push Latin America Into China's ArmsReviving the Monroe Doctrine would take a time machine.
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China’s Underground Historians, With Ian JohnsonIan Johnson, the Stephen A. Schwarzman senior fellow for China studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how Chinese filmmakers, journalists, and artists are challenging the Chinese Communist Party’s version of history.
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How China and Russia Have Helped Foment Coups and the Growing Militarization of PoliticsMilitaries have become more involved in the governance and politics of nations worldwide in the last decade.
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China Steadily Pivots Towards Promoting Marriage and ChildbirthAfter decades of attempting to limit births, Beijing is steadily pivoting towards pro-natalist state policies.
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Biden at the UN: Inclusive InternationalismAmid renewed calls for changes in the world order, U.S. President Joe Biden sought to stress his support for greater inclusion of developing nations in addressing economic, social, and climate concerns.
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Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the FutureSparks tells the story of how underground writers, filmmakers, and journalists are challenging one of the pillars of Communist Party rule: its control of history. In underground documentary films, samizdat magazines, and guerilla journalism, they document famines and political campaigns of years past and write about ethnic clashes and virus outbreaks of the present. Based on years of on-the-ground reporting, Sparks challenges the idea that independent thought in China has been crushed, revealing one of the world’s great battles of memory against forgetting—a struggle that will shape the China that emerges in the coming decades.
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Is Industrial Policy Making a Comeback?The threat of climate change and the rise of China have prompted renewed debate about the U.S. government’s role in shaping the economy.
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Will the U.S. Plan to Counter China’s Belt and Road Initiative Work?At the G20 summit, the United States and its partners revealed an economic corridor linking India, the Middle East, and Europe. It is premature, however, to call this a serious counterweight to China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
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Academic Webinar: India and Great-Power RivalryNirupama Menon Rao, former Indian foreign secretary and former ambassador of India to the United States and China, leads the conversation on India and great-power rivalry. CASA: Welcome to the fir…
