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China’s new leaders will stay focused on domestic issues. With its growing relative economic and military advantages, China is largely comfortable with its current foreign policies.
Urbanization holds the key to a more innovation-driven growth model and sustained consumption demand in China, but the process also presents several challenges.
In China, growth, especially in the past decade, was heavily subsidized by hidden transfers from the household sector in the form of an undervalued currency, low wage growth, and most importantly, low interest rates.
China's weak social safety net has helped to create China's high savings rate primarily because it is the consequence of the erosion of Chinese household wealth.
Proliferation threats from North Korea remain acute given Pyongyang's alliance with rogue states.
Policy distortions, shifting labor migration patterns, and higher education enrollments are creating labor shortages and skill-mix problems in China.
China is criticized for becoming more assertive, aggressive, and bullying, but in reality it should be seen as too reactive.
Some observers see Xi's varied contacts with the West and his experience being the son of one of the prominent figures of the revolutionary era as providing clues that he will be more forceful in steering the collective leadership.
The importance of Asia in U.S. foreign policy continues to grow, and so, too, have questions on the future role of the U.S.-Japan alliance in the region.
North Korea’s successful missile launch and recent nuclear test may have been tactical victories for Kim Jong Un, but they may also be the first step in North Korea losing its strongest ally and lifeline.