Trivium Labs
Our passion projects
The Virus Economy
Tracking China’s return to work in the wake of COVID-19
As China’s leadership struggled to kickstart the economy in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, the country’s provinces hustled to get folks back to work. Trivium tracked the official resumption rates throughout the country between February 15, 2020 and June 3, 2020 to paint a portrait of China’s economic re-ignition.
Trivium Project
Understanding China’s Social Credit System
Trivium conducts extensive, ongoing research on the policies, technologies, and people behind China’s social credit system. We provide evidence-based insights that draw on Chinese-language primary source documents to deepen global understanding of social credit’s present and future impacts.
Trivium Primer
An intro to China’s policymaking process
September 3, 2018: How is policy formulated in China? Who proposes it? How does it get refined or amended? And in a top-down, single-party system, can policy be influenced by those outside the government?
Politburo pre-game
Trivium’s guide to the 19th Party Congress
September 10, 2017: The outcomes of the 2017 congress will indicate how successfully (or not) Xi has consolidated power, how much support there is for his agenda, and how this agenda will evolve in the coming years.