Publications

What Tiananmen Square Can Teach Us About COVID-19

June 2, 2021 Newsweek

For most of the world, the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre recalls familiar yet macabre vignettes of hopeful students and the iron tanks that crushed them, along with their cries for freedom. In China, however, there is nothing to recall on June 4th because, as far as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is concerned, nothing happened.

China Reform Monitor No. 1465

May 27, 2021 Joshua Eisenman

Beijing rebuffs Pentagon requests for Austin-Xu talks;
$3 billion more for global COVID-19 response: Xi;
China's hot market;
Banks raise mortgage rates to rein in housing prices;
Lack of academic freedom weakens America studies in China

China Reform Monitor No. 1464

May 19, 2021 Joshua Eisenman

Exploring China's "irregular war" tactics;
China's authorities face a credibility crisis;
China builds on Bhutan's territory;
Pentagon: PLA eyeing locations for Gulf of Guinea base;
EU suspends ratification of China investment deal