Deep dive | Anticipating Alaska: Biden’s First Eight Weeks of China Policy

Beijing’s annual government work reports (GWR) are supposed to set the direction for economic policy in the year ahead – but 2026’s iteration raised more questions than it answered. ICYMI: On March 5, the annual meeting of China’s legislature (NPC)… Read More »

March is shaping up to be a tense month in China-US relations. At the end of last month, we told you that US-China relations were on a steady (but fragile) path toward stabilization. Both countries seemed satisfied with the follow-through… Read More »

The US is finally developing a coherent strategy to break China's grip on critical minerals. And it’s been a long time coming. China’s first critical mineral export controls – gallium and germanium – landed in the summer of 2023. Beijing… Read More »