Jiannan Luo

Jun 27, 2024 | eastasiaforum.org | Sourabh Gupta |William Jones |Rumi Aoyama |Jiannan Luo

The third plenary session of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CPC) 20th Central Committee in July 2024 comes at a critical juncture for an economy beset by profound challenges. Successful third plenary sessions include the December 1978 meeting, which shifted the CPC’s focus from ‘waging class struggle’ to ‘socialist modernisation’ and the November 1993 session, which established the ‘socialist market economy’ system.

Jun 26, 2024 | eastasiaforum.org | Rumi Aoyama |Richard Pomfret |Jiannan Luo |Kyuseok Kim

Japan is one of the countries most affected by geopolitical competition between the United States and China. Although the economies of Japan and China seem to be on the first track of economic decoupling in many ways as a result, they are actually only experiencing a period of structural economic change. Contrary to the prevailing perception, Japanese initiative, not the US–China rivalry, is driving the structural shifts in Japan’s economic security policy.

Jun 25, 2024 | eastasiaforum.org | Jiannan Luo |Daniel Sneider |David Camroux |Earl Wang

In late April 2024, a man committed suicide after allegedly being swindled by his girlfriend, igniting gender tensions on the Chinese internet. Millions of online comments defended the man, known as ‘Fat Cat’, and attacked the girlfriend — discourse that quickly grew into generalised criticism of all women, accusing them of having a ‘money-worshiping’ mentality and squeezing men out of the dating market.