As Taiwan makes headlines as a flashpoint for US aggression on China, this resource unpacks China’s aspirations for national reunification and Taiwan’s fraught status as an “unsinkable aircraft carrier” for Western ideological, economic, and military power in Asia and the Pacific.

China has transformed in 70 years from a poor, underdeveloped country mired by feudalism and imperialism into a sovereign socialist society and the world’s second-largest economy.

This resource list provides a starting point for understanding China’s rapid development through a close examination of Chinese socialist theory and governance.

China’s historic campaign to eradicate absolute poverty by 2020 has been met with claims of exaggeration and even state repression in Western media.

This short resource roundup sheds light on China’s criteria for “absolute poverty,” down to the county and even household level, with further readings on what poverty alleviation looks like on the ground.

Based on a handful of think tank reports and witness testimonies, Western governments have levied false allegations of genocide and slavery in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. A closer look makes clear that the politicization of China’s anti-terrorism policies in Xinjiang is another front of the U.S.-led hybrid war on China.

More than thirty years later, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 remain a touchstone of a Western mythology spun to challenge the fundamental legitimacy of the Communist Party of China.

This reading list compiles primary sources, Chinese state documents, and media fact-checking reports to challenge the hegemonic narrative of the Tiananmen protests.

This reading list provides a critical lens on the Hong Kong protests and the British colonial nostalgia, anti-Chinese racism, and appeals to Western intervention that make up the dominant force of the protests.