July/August 2021

Can China Keep Rising?

What’s Inside

Xi’s Gamble

The Race to Consolidate Power and Stave Off Disaster

Jude Blanchette

China’s Economic Reckoning

The Price of Failed Reforms

Daniel H. Rosen

The Robber Barons of Beijing

Can China Survive Its Gilded Age?

Yuen Yuen Ang

Becoming Strong

The New Chinese Foreign Policy

Yan Xuetong

The Plot Against China?

How Beijing Sees the New Washington Consensus

Wang Jisi

The Taiwan Temptation

Why Beijing Might Resort to Force

Oriana Skylar Mastro

Life of the Party

How Secure Is the CCP?

Orville Schell

The Forever Virus

A Strategy for the Long Fight Against COVID-19

Larry Brilliant, Lisa Danzig, Karen Oppenheimer, Agastya Mondal, Rick Bright, and W. Ian Lipkin

The Fulbright Paradox

Race and the Road to a New American Internationalism

Charles King

A Better Boom

How to Capture the Pandemic’s Productivity Potential

James Manyika and Michael Spence

A Measure Short of War

The Return of Great-Power Subversion

Jill Kastner and William C. Wohlforth

Myanmar’s Coming Revolution

What Will Emerge From Collapse?

Thant Myint-U

Antimonopoly Power

The Global Fight Against Corporate Concentration

Barry C. Lynn

The Threat Reflex

Why Some Societies Respond to Danger Better Than Others

Michele Gelfand

Spies Like Us

The Promise and Peril of Crowdsourced Intelligence

Amy Zegart

Chronicle of a Defeat Foretold

Why America Failed in Afghanistan

Christina Lamb

Anti-imperial Subjects

Asia’s Unfinished Rebellions

Adom Getachew