China Currents

A Journal of the China Research Center

2025: Vol. 24, No. 2

Editor’s Note

This issue of China Currents once again offers a wide-ranging look at significant issues involving China, some of which are prominent in the public…

Polar Partners? Russia and China in the Arctic

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, allegations of Chinese collusion with Russia’s war aims have proliferated. They have ranged from assertions that…

How Should Taiwan Play the “Trump” Card?

Donald Trump1 took office as the Forty-Seventh President of the United States on January 20, 2025. Before his inauguration, the world, learning from the…

Race to Reorder the World: The PRC-USA Rivalry

Introduction: From the China Order to the China Race In an admittedly immodest manner, I have published “The China Trilogy” on China: The China…

Empires Age Like Dynamite

Kant began with impossibility. Critique of Pure Reason opens with the assertion that, for much of its history, Western philosophy was dedicated to answering…

The Pulled Punch and the Sheathed Blade: Her Story (2024) as a Feminist “Stand-up Film”

Stand-up comedy thrives on the art of the punch. When aimed upward, a well-executed punch can earn cheers and sharpen stand-up’s impact, using wit…