Party and State

People walk across a street during the morning rush hour in Beijing

Party and State

China’s Social Credit System in 2021: From fragmentation towards integration

Katja Drinhausen

Vincent Brussee

Report

Mar 03, 2021

Research

Party and State

A look ahead at the National People's Congress

Briefing

Feb 25, 2021

Chinese Lunar New Year reception at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing

Xi signals unshaken commitment to state’s role in Chinese economy

Briefing

Aug 27, 2020

EU at odds with UK and US in response to new Hong Kong security law

Briefing

Jun 04, 2020

What do young Chinese think about social credit? It's complicated

Marc Oliver Rieger

Mei Wang

Mareike Ohlberg

Report

Mar 26, 2020

Xi’s one-party state is smothering what made China successful

Nis Grünberg

Short analysis

Dec 19, 2019

China launches media offensive on its human rights record

China Update 18/2019

Dec 12, 2019

Propaganda beyond the Great Firewall

Chinese party-state media on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube

Mareike Ohlberg

Short analysis

Dec 05, 2019

China’s actions in Xinjiang denounced as crimes against humanity

China Update 17/2019

Nov 28, 2019

Social control or a fix for a non-law-abiding society?

Lavender Au

Mats Kuuskemaa

Short analysis

Nov 01, 2019

Insights

Party and State

China, business and democracy (La Repubblica - IT)

Lucrezia Poggetti

Opinion

Feb 05, 2021

„30 years after Tiananmen: Social movements are less likely in today’s China”

Podcast

Jun 13, 2019

Merics Experts 81 - Thirty years after Tiananmen Panel Discussion.mp3

Technology first? China's citizens and the digital surveillance state (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)

Kristin Shi-Kupfer

Jun 11, 2019

Interview on the legacy of June 4 (Spiegel Online)

Kristin Shi-Kupfer

Jun 04, 2019

"The great silence" Op-ed on the 30th anniversary of Tiananmen protests (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

Kristin Shi-Kupfer

Jun 03, 2019

“A 1989-style movement simply can no longer take place in China”

Thirty years after Tiananmen

Press release

May 28, 2019

Kai Strittmatter: "The Chinese dictatorship is getting itself a digital update"

Podcast

Mar 22, 2019

Merics Experts 74 - Kai Strittmatter.MP3

Meeting of the National People's Congress

China sends constructive signals in trade dispute with US by planning to adopt a new law to protect foreign investment

Press release

Feb 28, 2019

The social credit system: China’s tool for moral education

Aug 21, 2018

Events

Microchip and chinese flag

Party and State

China’s coming 5-year-plan: What can we expect in investments, trade and social development?

Nov. 17, 2020

A villager shoulders collected chestnuts home in Wangmo County, Guizhou Province

Party and State

An end to poverty in China by 2020?

Oct. 28, 2020

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Katja Drinhausen

Katja Drinhausen

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Nis Grünberg

Senior Analyst

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Thomas des Garets Geddes

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Valarie Tan

Analyst

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