How can a struggling country break out of poverty if it's trapped in a system of bad rules? Economist Paul Romer unveils a bold idea: "charter cities," city-scale administrative zones governed by a coalition of nations. (Could Guantánamo...

Historian and Chinese Studies specialist Karl Gerth (UCSD) discusses how many of the problems currently besetting modern China were anticipated by Mao.

Why was China so Weak before WW2? | History of China 1930-1937 Documentary 5/10

How did 80 Million People Die in Maoist China? | History of China 1955-1970 Documentary 8/10

Vietnam is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world today. In 2019 its growth was only beaten out by a selection of far smaller and far more unstable national economies.



With a huge and very...

China is the staging ground for an economic experiment: Can innovation succeed when it’s directed by an authoritarian state?
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INET President Rob Johnson sits down with Julian Gewirtz to discuss his book Unlikely Partners:...

In part 1 of INET's interview with Orville Schell, he discusses the research he's been doing for his new book, including counter intuitive findings that are causing him to reevaluate some of his long-term beliefs about the country.

China has come along way.



As of the time of this writing, the communist country is the second-largest economy in the world and looks poised to reclaim its title as the world's largest economy within the nex

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Mao Zedong: Great at rebelling against governments, not so great at leading them. Climbed to the top of the communist ladder during the Long March, and won the Chinese Civil War! ...But then the Great Leap Forward backfired and the...