Junyan Jiang (Penn) and Yang Zhang (American): Leadership Successions and Patterns of Power Sharing in China. The PRC of 1949 and 2016 may as well be different planets, so why are some calling Xi Jinping the new Mao? Ian Johnson on Xi Jinping: The illusion of greatness. China just held its National People’s Congress — here are three key points. Matej Simalcik (Groningen): Confucianism in Chinese Foreign Policy: A Strategic-Cultural Analysis of the South China Sea Dispute. Tom Miller on Chinese foreign policy in 5 minutes. Gregory Shaffer (UC-Irvine) and Henry S. Gao (SMU): China's Rise: How it Took on the U.S. at the WTO. Following a fiasco, Trump now looks like “a paper tiger” to China.
Amitai Etzioni (George Washington): The China Options. Kenneth Rogoff on why Trump can’t bully China. Gideon Rachman on Trump in the China shop. Robert Farley on how a war between the U.S. and China would be World War III (and might be hard to shut off).
