Luxury Homes Tie Chinese Communist Elite to Hong Kong’s Fate (subscription requires)
by Alexandra Stevenson and Michael Forsythe
via The New York Times on August 12, 2020


THREAD! How we (mostly @jotted) documented that the daughter of the man who pushed Hong Kong's national security law through China's NPC ascended the ranks of Hong Kong's pro-Beijing elite, amassing great wealth. This thread will cover A LOT of territory
by Mike Forsythe
via Twitter on August 12, 2020


A study by the author claims to prove that real estate development firms linked to members of the Politburo were able to buy land much more cheaply (less than half price) than their rivals, and the politicians who sold the land were much more likely to b
by Michael Pettis
via Twitter on August 20, 2020


Busting the “Princelings”: The Campaign Against Corruption in China’s Primary Land Market (subscription required)
by Ting Chen and James Kai-sing Kung
via Quarterly Journal of Economics on February 2019


China approves BlackRock, Temasek and CCB joint wealth venture
by Leng Cheng and Yew Lun Tian
via Reuters on August 22, 2020


中共公安系再地震 今年第三位高官上海公安局被抓 [The CCP's public security system quake again this year, the third senior official of Shanghai Public Security Bureau was arrested] – ORIGINAL IN CHINESE
via Voice of America on August 18, 2020


‘Drive the Blade In’: Xi Shakes Up China’s Law-and-Order Forces (subscription required)
by Chris Buckley
via The New York Times on August 20, 2020


The Rise of China’s Statist Intellectuals: Law, Sovereignty, and “Repoliticization” (subscription required)
by Sebastian Veg
via The China Journal on July 2019


Chinese Receptions of Carl Schmitt since 1929
by Ryan Mitchell
via Journal of Law and International Affairs on June 2020


Culture Strategy: Inoculating America and the World Against China’s ‘Virulent Strain of Communism’
via Sinoinsider on August 5, 2020


Upcoming Book: The China Nightmare: The Grand Ambitions of a Decaying State
by Dan Blumenthal
via American Enterprise Institute on August 19, 2020


Xi’s Protracted War
via Credible Target Blog on August 8, 2020

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