Xurui Zhang is an Analyst in the Titan section at the Atlas Institute for International Affairs and a Policy Intern at The Korea Society. He holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from Brooklyn College. His work focuses on U.S.–China relations, great power competition, and grand strategy
Why the World Still Needs China
How China's power has become a political risk. China, one of the most impoverished countries in the past, had a GDP of only U.S.$150 billion at the start of the…
From Ideology to Escalation: Assessing the Political Risk of Taiwan
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) fixation on ideology is long-standing. In 1945, paramount leader Mao Zedong affirmed during a speech to the 7th Party Congress: “The Chinese Communist Party is…