ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
The New Total War Economy
How can Xi Jinping, without a strategy or an economic philosophy, promise a war without a war economy?
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
How the Prestige and Trust Deficit Impacts the Strategic Equation
Whole of society warfare — total war — must, to be successful, be conducted under an umbrella psychological strategy. This is not just “information warfare”: it goes to the content of all the messaging which generates trust or distrust, confidence or defeatism.
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
EARLY WARNING | Addressing the Contradictory Myths of More
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
China: Beijing’s Brave Face
Beijing’s latest forecasts are a breathtaking disguise for the abyss which it faces.
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
ESSENTIAL READING | Chips as the Main Meal
Important New Strategic Literature
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Xi Consolidates Power with Deliberately Contradictory Moves
Xi Jinping needed, once the Party Congress was over, to re-assert calm over his domestic and international arenas, but there seems little he can do to blunt the PRC’s worsening economic situation and accompany-ing social unrest.
SOVEREIGNTY
EARLY WARNING | Has Democracy Lost its Strategic Force?
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
ESSENTIAL READING | A Unilateral Weapon
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
EN CLAIR | Nigeria: Breakthrough or Status Quo?
The 2023 election offers the chance of a turning point. Will Nigerians seize it?
RESOURCES
How the Ukraine War Has Saved Communist China
Beijing finally has the chance to throw off some of its dependency on US food supplies, giving it an enormous new lease of strategic freedom.
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS