Research and Commentary

Can Xi Jinping's Governing Strategy Succeed?

September 26, 2013, Cheng Li and Ryan McElveen

Bo Xilai's Smile

September 24, 2013, Cheng Li and Ryan McElveen

Mapping China's Tobacco Industry and Anti-Smoking Campaign

September 9, 2013, Cheng Li

Corruption Trial Begins for China's Bo Xilai

August 24, 2013, Cheng Li

Why Bo Xilai’s Trial is About China, Not Bo Xilai

August 23, 2013, Cheng Li

Analysis of the Bo Xilai Trial in China

August 23, 2013, Cheng Li

Bo Xilai's Poisonous Legacy in China

August 22, 2013, Cheng Li and Ryan McElveen

Charges Against Former China Politburo Member Bo Xilai

August 22, 2013, Cheng Li

The Future Role of the Chinese Middle Class

July 2013, Cheng Li and Ryan McElveen

Where U.S.-China Relations Are Headed After the Xi-Obama Meetings

June 10, 2013, Cheng Li

U.S.-China Relations and the Obama-Xi Meetings

June 7, 2013, Cheng Li

Obama and Xi Should Compare Notes on Political Reform and Domestic Challenges

June 7, 2013, Cheng Li and Ryan McElveen

A Biographical and Factional Analysis of Chinese Communist Party's Post-2012 Politburo

June 6, 2013, Cheng Li

Top Five Issues President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping Should Discuss

June 4, 2013, Richard C. Bush III, Cheng Li, Jonathan D. Pollack, Eswar Prasad and Ian Wallace

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A Conversation on President Obama’s Meeting with President Xi Jinping of China

June 4, 2013, Jeffrey A. Bader, Eswar Prasad and Cheng Li

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High Expectations for China’s National People’s Congress

March 1, 2013, Cheng Li

China's New Leaders: Rule of the Princelings

February 10, 2013, Cheng Li

China's Political Transition: A Balanced Assessment of its Problems and Promises

February 7, 2013, Cheng Li

China in Revolution and War

January 17, 2013, Cheng Li

China at the Tipping Point: Top-Level Reform or Bottom-Up Revolution?

January 2013, Cheng Li

A New Cold War? The Future of U.S.-China Relations

December 13, 2012, Cheng Li

Challenges for China's New Leadership

November 16, 2012, Cheng Li, Kenneth G. Lieberthal, Jonathan D. Pollack and Jeffrey A. Bader

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Xi Jinping Can Send China in a New Direction

November 16, 2012, Cheng Li and

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Opportunity Lost? Inside China's Leadership Transition

November 16, 2012, Cheng Li

Shadow of Former President Looms Over China's New Leaders

November 15, 2012, Cheng Li