2023 Issue 22

This week, we see how the post-COVID recovery in the PRC seems to be sputtering, U.S. businesses are reconsidering their footprints in China, and Chinese entrepreneurs are looking for ways to set up their businesses beyond the reach of the Chinese Communist Party.

Scholars examine how Party leaders use information to make decisions and how that might lead to catastrophic miscalculations as individuals within the Party are unwilling to speak truth to power.

The Sino-Indian relationship continues to deteriorate as each country expels the journalists of the other and the U.S. Treasury Department imposes financial sanctions on PRC individuals and entities involved in fentanyl trafficking to the United States.