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China’s 20th Party Congress

How China is responding to 3 potential traps

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China’s Communist Party finds it easier to win hearts and minds at home than overseas

Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

President Xi Jinping at the annual meeting of the National People’s Congress in May 2020. Photo: AFP

Students wave Chinese and Communist Party flags ahead of celebrations in Beijing on July 1, 2021, to mark the 100th anniversary of the party’s founding. Photo: AFP

A huge party flag adorns the square in front of the Museum of the Communist Party of China in Beijing in June 2021. Photo: Simon Song

Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, known for his bellicose tone on Twitter, at a press conference in Beijing in July 2021. Photo: Kyodo

Authorities in Beijing have had some success in managing their domestic image, but credibility on the international stage is a different story


Is strained China-US relationship spiralling towards a Thucydides Trap scenario?

 Illustration: Henry Wong

President Xi Jinping has warned of the danger of strategic miscalculations.


China on cusp of joining high-income club, but slowdown raises spectre of middle-income trap

Statistically, China already stands at the doorstep of the high-income club, but there are concerns it could fall victim to the middle-income trap. Photo: Illustration by Lau Ka-kuen

Chinese officials have trumpeted dazzling economic figures to make the case that the country can escape the middle-income trap, but some inconvenient statistics point to a worrying trend for the world’s second-largest economy.


Ahead of this year’s 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, this three-part series takes a look at how the country is responding to three potential traps highlighted by President Xi Jinping in the past decade.


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