Thomas Koenig, China, Blog Posts

Kim Jong-un seeks to blackmail West to support regime

News outlets are ablaze with speculation about where the latest chapter in North Korea's power play will go next. Fear of nuclear attack or of rapid escalation along the North-South border abounds.Read more…...

On the ground in Guangzhou

I have just returned from a research trip to China for our upcoming What Does The New China Think? project. Within a few weeks, our team travelled from Shanghai to Beijing to Guangzhou and back toRead more…...

The fall of a princeling; the fall of the Chongqing model?

It could have been so easy: Bo Xilai, Chongqing Communist Party Chief quickly poised himself as a serious contender for a much-coveted position in the upcoming 18th National Congress of theRead more…...
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