Executive Summary China’s performing arts industry is best understood through two overlapping but different lenses. The broad institutional market tracked by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism covers the full business revenue of performance-market entities; by that measure, performance-market units reached RMB 921.45 billion in revenue
The Trump–Xi meeting in Busan during APEC 2025 remains a symbolic moment in the fragile recalibration of U.S.–China relations. Its outcomes offered both countries short-term relief and a measure of strategic breathing room amid intensifying geopolitical, technological, and economic competition. Now, as President Donald Trump arrives
This report compares five cities that sit at different points in the global low-altitude economy (LAE), for example, Shenzhen as a scale-driven LAE industrial pioneer, Shanghai as a port-metropolis and regional network builder, Seoul as a metropolitan UAM and airport-district model, Busan as an emerging port-
|China Intelligence Society China Intelligence Society New Year Launch How the 15th Five-Year planning cycle is signaling the future of China’s leading city-regions — and why the world should pay attention This year, we launched China Intelligence Society with a simple but important mission: to offer timely, strategic,
A lesson history has repeated across regions and centuries is that states rarely become stronger by normalizing war as a strategy, because even military victories often trigger deeper economic exhaustion, social fragmentation, and long-term institutional damage. In the Middle East, the 1973 Arab–Israeli War quickly expanded into a
💡The smarter frame is leadership under cascading crisis, not only diplomacy under war. War often reveals its truth too late. Long after the language of victory, deterrence, and retaliation has filled official statements, what remains are shattered homes, exhausted families, wounded landscapes, and leaders confronting a harder question than how
X-Scholars' Value for Science and Human Potential as a Meta-Geopolitical Capacity X-Scholars believes that every nation and every individual possesses unique potential that can be unlocked, elevated, and strategically positioned through the purposeful integration of technology, culture, and STEM education. We hold that scientific capability and
In a world where innovation capacity defines national power, countries that master artificial intelligence as a learning catalyst will lead the next era of growth. Recent policy moves underscore a new reality that both the United States and China have introduced mandatory AI education in schools to boost early AI
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After years of cautious engagement amid geopolitical tensions, 2025 saw notable rapprochement. In November 2025, a presidential summit (South Korea’s President and China’s President Xi) produced multiple MOUs on reopening economic, cultural, and technology exchanges. South Korean innovation agencies immediately launched missions to Chinese tech hubs – e.g.
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What if there is a film festival—not merely as a cultural showcase, but as a high-trust, low-sensitivity cooperation mechanism that helps institutions like the SCO generate tangible outcomes where formal diplomacy can be slow? The SCO Film Festival demonstrates how cinema can function as a practical “operating
