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Five books that explain the forces shaping geopolitics | The Economist reads

China has announced 26 new measures to revive its flagging economy, including visa-on-arrival for foreign businesspeople. Previously, they had to apply for a visa at a Chinese embassy or consulate in their country of departure. Chinas post-Covid recovery has been sluggish with GDP growth only increasing by 0.8% in the first to second quarter of this year, and over 20% of youths are unemployed.

This is a dispatch from your former JURIST China correspondent, twenty-five years later. Those early dispatches I sent to Professor Hibbits from Wuhan University are now so antiquated that finding one...

Xi Jinping faults America for any clash of civilisations | China

British journalist and academic Martin Jacques talks about various facets of China’s role and place in the modern world.

Editor's note: China's whole-process people's democracy, which is democracy in its broadest, most genuine and most effective form, is the defining feature of socialist democracy. It is a complete political system, because unlike US-style democracy which is a democracy of a few people and groups, it is devoted to serving the Chinese people at all levels and of all ethnic groups. Three experts share their views on whole-process people's democracy with China Daily.

An article, titled "Chinese Democracy: A True Solution", published in China Daily in December 2021, said China holds "direct election of deputies to the county and township-level peoples congresses".

China highlights a long-debated question about economic development: Can a top-down autocracy outperform liberal market economies in terms of innovation and growth?

BOSTON  —  China highlights a long-debated question about economic development: Can a top-down autocracy outperform liberal market economies in terms of innovation and growth?Between 1980 and 2019, China’s average annual GDP growth rate was over 8 per cent, faster than any Western economy, and in the 2000s, its economic trajectory exceeded mere catch-up growth (using Western

It underestimates the role of face-saving, which is central to Chinese culture, and the country’s priorities, such as attaining the Chinese Dream