Elizabeth Economy

Epidemics Feb 10, 2020 Snapshot

The Coronavirus Is a Stress Test for Xi Jinping

China’s response to the coronavirus epidemic has underscored Xi Jinping’s strength—and exposed his weaknesses.

Elizabeth Economy

Outside a railway station in Shanghai, February 2020

China Oct 1, 2019 Snapshot

China’s Neo-Maoist Moment

How Xi Jinping Is Using China’s Past to Accomplish What His Predecessors Could Not

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The Best of 2019 Mar 6, 2019 Postscript

The Problem With Xi’s China Model

As Xi begins his second five-year term as CCP general secretary and (soon) president, there are signs that the new model’s very successes are becoming liabilities.

Elizabeth Economy

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, December 2018.

Economic Development May/June 2018 Essay

China's New Revolution

Xi Jinping's China is an illiberal state seeking leadership in a liberal world order.

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Party of one: Xi at the 19th Party Congress, Beijing, October 2017.

China July/August 2017 Review Essay

History With Chinese Characteristics

Xi Jingping is the latest in a string of recent leaders to call for a revival of China’s ancient glory. Such narratives rely as much on myth as on fact, but the United...

Reviewed by Elizabeth Economy

Globalization Jan 22, 2017 Snapshot

Beijing Is No Champion of Globalization

In his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Chinese President Xi Jinping set out to establish himself as the standard-bearer for globalization. But, as has...

Elizabeth Economy

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 2017.

Obama Administration Jul 13, 2016 Snapshot

Rebalance the Rebalance

As the United States has focused on East and Southeast Asia, China has won a more prominent role for itself across South and Central Asia.

Alyssa Ayres, Elizabeth Economy, and Daniel Markey

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits the Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses, in Xian, Shaanxi province, China, May 14, 2015.

Civil Society Sep 21, 2015 Snapshot

Where China Can’t Compete

Certainly China has no shortage of think tanks or talented people to fill them. But the vast majority—as much as 95 percent—are government supported. Slowly, however,...

Yanzhong Huang and Elizabeth Economy

Xi Jinping November/December 2014 Essay

China's Imperial President

Xi Jinping’s reforms are designed to produce a corruption-free, politically cohesive, and economically powerful one-party state with global reach: a Singapore on...

Elizabeth Economy

Asia January/February 2014 Capsule Review

Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-first Century

Schell and Delury argue that for most of China’s recent history, the country has been consumed with the search for wealth and power: the desire to “see China return to...

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United States Feb 15, 2012 Snapshot

Xi's Tour Won't Fix the U.S.-Chinese 'Trust Deficit'

Before Xi's visit to the United States, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister, Cui Tiankai, bemoaned the two countries' “trust deficit” and suggested that they give full...

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Economic Development November/December 2010 Essay

The Game Changer

As China's economic might expands, Beijing not only wants a greater stake in international organizations but also to remake the rules of the game.

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Economics November/December 2010 Essay

Globalizing the Energy Revolution

Clean-energy technology is expensive and the United States is spending far too little on developing it. The U.S. government must do more to promote cross-border...

Michael Levi, Elizabeth Economy, Shannon K. O'Neil, and Adam Segal

Foreign Policy May/June 2009 Essay

The G-2 Mirage

A heightened bilateral relationship may not be possible for China and the United States, as the two countries have mismatched interests and values. Washington should...

Elizabeth Economy and Adam Segal

Olympics July/August 2008 Essay

China's Olympic Nightmare

Failure to plan for predictable problems has turned China's coming-out party into an embarrassment.

Elizabeth Economy and Adam Segal

Environment September/October 2007 Essay

The Great Leap Backward?

China's environmental woes are mounting, and the country is fast becoming one of the leading polluters in the world. The situation continues to deteriorate because...

Elizabeth Economy

A fisherman rests next to containers filled with oil cleaned up from the oil spill site at a port in Dalian, Liaoning province July 25, 2010.

U.S. Foreign Policy May/June 2004 Essay

Don't Break the Engagement

This election year may tempt both critics of the Bush administration and hard-liners within it to attack U.S. policy on China. That would be a mistake, however, for...

Elizabeth Economy

Economics March/April 1999 Comment

Painting China Green: The Next Sino-American Tussle

China gambled that economic growth would outpace environmental harm. It lost. Fixing the resultant damage may break the stalemate in U.S.-Chinese relations.

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The Coronavirus Is a Stress Test for Xi Jinping

China’s Neo-Maoist Moment

The Problem With Xi’s China Model

China's New Revolution

History With Chinese Characteristics

Beijing Is No Champion of Globalization

Rebalance the Rebalance

Where China Can’t Compete

China's Imperial President

Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-first Century

Xi's Tour Won't Fix the U.S.-Chinese 'Trust Deficit'

The Game Changer

Globalizing the Energy Revolution

The G-2 Mirage

China's Olympic Nightmare

The Great Leap Backward?

Don't Break the Engagement

Painting China Green: The Next Sino-American Tussle

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