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After several weeks of technology upgrading, Five Things on China’s Leaders’ Minds finally returns. Now better able than ever before to track and evaluate China’s media, government and Party organs, we’re reverting to our weekly format. If you have any questions or comments, please email us at

Fortnightly newsletter tracking high-level policy signals sent by China’s top leaders. For more information, visit About Five Things. If you know anyone who might like to read this newsletter, please share it with them. Anyone can sign up for free here. Commentary Two themes stood out in the articles

Commentary The Chinese economy’s lacklustre rebound from Covid and the impending visit of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken might have been the main preoccupations of China watchers in the first half of June. Neither topic, however, featured in the most widely circulated articles in China’s official media

Fortnightly newsletter tracking high-level policy signals sent by China’s top leaders. For more information, visit About Five Things. Commentary An overarching theme of Xi Jinping’s years as China’s leader has been the concentration of ever more power in his own hands. Most recently that was seen in

Fortnightly newsletter tracking high-level policy signals sent by China’s top leaders. For more information, visit About Five Things. Commentary China’s official media regularly offers overviews of how Xi Jinping wants China to be. Even by those standards, however, the most widely circulated reports of the last fortnight saw

Fortnightly newsletter tracking high-level policy signals sent by China’s top leaders. For more information, visit About Five Things. Commentary The most widely circulated article in China’s official media over the last fortnight was a report on a meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission, the Communist