The Politburo of the Communist Party of China Central Committee met last week. After reading several posts by respected China hands reporting on this high-level meeting, I was struck once again by a significant deficit America suffers from in dealing with China. Most of us do not understand the language official China uses to express itself and therefore too often miss the real story. Zhongnanhai Leadership Compound, Beijing The Politburo meeting set priorities for China’s ec

According to Dr. Benjamin Wang (Stanford University), the debate in China today is not about China catching up with the world, but rather about China “ bringing its own sense of the world [to the world], not slotting into the western sense of the world. ” Global academics and intellectuals recently presented and debated social and political theory in China at the 2026 Telos-Paul Piccone Institute China Initiative Conference, “The Chinese New Leviathan: Cultural Subjectivity

I was recently back in Dutchess County, New York, to attend my college reunion. A weekend of old and new. I retraced my steps to the...