Dan Murphy is executive director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Is humor the most dangerous emotion? To authoritarianism, yes.

That’s the case when gauging China’s evolving view of President Donald Trump’s second term. Beijing sees Trump’s disruptive ...

On the evening of July 15, 2025, a roundtable discussion was held at the Marx Memorial Library in London, organised by ...

Values once rooted in moral constraint, like filial piety, virtue, and ethical cultivation, are being refitted to serve a ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at how Japan ’s election results could hamper U.S. trade talks, Israeli ...

China’s Ambassador to Tanzania, Chen Mingjian, described the decades-old multifaceted relations between the two countries strategic and people-centred. She made remarks to that effect in a recent ...

Explore the cultural, demographic, and infrastructural changes in Tibet's Lhasa, reflecting China's influence and impact on ...

A survey of China’s periphery demonstrates the authoritarian’s need to isolate itself cognitively through the Great Firewall, ...

Sitting on the fence and hoping for a return to the halcyon days of the past where we were able to cash in on China’s rise ...

A new wave of purges has engulfed the senior leadership of China’s military, the People’s Liberation Army. Since the 20th ...

CHINA has preserved its position as Tanzania’s largest trading partner for the ninth consecutive year, with bilateral trade ...