Zichen Wang
Research Fellow & Director for Int’l Comms at Center for China and Globalization (CCG), after 11 years at Xinhua News Agency.Founder & Editor: Pekingnology & The East is Read.Salzburg Global Fellow (2024-).
Recent articles by Zichen Wang
5 April 2025
How Xi woos world business leaders as Trump intensifies trade war
On the morning of Friday, 28 March, Xi Jinping met representatives of the international business community at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
22 March 2025
Tensions over Taiwan
Ma Ying-jeou warns that William Ching-te Lai is leading cross-strait relations into a major crisis.
28 January 2025
1st call between Marco Rubio and Wang Yi
Neither State Department nor MOFA is gonna like this piece.
17 December 2024
Taiwan's former parliamentary speaker proposes "separate jurisdictions, one sovereignty"
Wang Jin-pyng says not to abandon the opportunity for people on both sides to jointly pursue the well-being of the Chinese nation, and respect the separate jurisdictions across the Strait. If world peace really hinges on, as many claim, what happens across the Taiwan Strait, you’ll have to bear with me for more posts on the seemingly niche subject.
30 November 2024
Feng Yujun on the prospects of Russia-Ukraine war after Trump's reelection
The leading expert on Russia says Trump's bold claim to end the Russia-Ukraine war within 24 hours is highly unlikely to materialise, and only a just peace can lead to lasting peace.
2 November 2024
"Reshaping the world through internal progress": Public advice for China's foreign policy
Leading international relations scholar Wang Jisi from Peking University, who just met Kurt Campbell, urges Beijing not to make new enemies, focus on domestic affairs, & maintain confidence in peaceful reunification.
26 October 2024
China looks to turn a page with Japan, Britain, and Israel
And India announces breakthrough with China on the troubled border.
2 October 2024
Chinese economists were pleading for government action
Ren Zeping's almost frantic call one week ahead of Beijing's dramatic loosening of monetary policy.
31 July 2024
How economic bureaucrats make policies and remake the Chinese state
Yingyao Wang opens the black box of the Chinese bureaucracy to reveal the agency of the men and women who designed and redesigned Chinese economic policy.
15 July 2024
Fundamental economic reform called for ahead of China’s Third Plenum
“The core factor causing current economic problems is not real estate but the contraction of government spending” according to David Daokui Li, Tsinghua University. “The entire government's operational orientation needs to be changed by reforming the fiscal and tax systems and local officials' assessment indicators to shift government incentives from investment and project-oriented policies to policies that provide basic social welfare and help people increase disposable income to boost consumption, transforming the government from an investment-oriented government to a social welfare service-oriented government,” Li said.
24 June 2024
China's Third Plenum: domestic consumption is the key to stimulating domestic demand
The Communist Party of China (CPC) has said the upcoming Third Plenary Session of its current 20th Central Committee will focus on “deepening comprehensive reform to advance Chinese modernisation.” Officially, the reform agenda will only be unveiled at the Third Plenum. But that doesn’t mean there are zero signals in public before it happens.
23 June 2024
China's Third Plenum: Beijing set to provide more welfare to its citizens
David Daokui Li says China's decision makers have finally come around to stimulating domestic consumption rather than investment, and for that Beijing will provide more welfare.
17 June 2024
Big changes to China’s healthcare insurance system expected at 3rd Plenum
The Communist Party of China has said the upcoming Third Plenary Session of its current 20th Central Committee will focus on “deepening comprehensive reform to advance Chinese modernisation.” Based on past practice and some recent public reports, Beijing is drafting its agenda now, but details are hard to come by.
19 November 2022
What Kevin Rudd got wrong on China: Taiwan and the great rejuvenation twenty five years ago
The renowned China hand mistook Beijing's linking of Taiwan and the great rejuvenation as a recent development and failed to trace the origin of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation back to at least 1997.