GIGA Journal Family | 11/11/2025

New Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 3/2025

This issue investigates the party-state’s academic engagements; governing institutions operating under dual identities; the impact of COVID-19 on China’s image; strategies to attract skilled migrants; the central government’s intensified engagement in Shenzhen; and other contemporary topics.


  • Journal of Current Chinese Affairs Vol. 54, No. 3 (2025)

    Research Articles

    • Eva Seiwert: “Telling China’s Story Well” Through Higher Education Along the New Silk Road

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    • Augusto Leal Rinaldi, Rodolfo de Camargo Lima, Laerte Apolinário Júnior: The US–China Rivalry: Health Diplomacy and Vaccine Donations Strategies

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    • Shirin Naseer: Perceptions of China in the Age of COVID-19: Findings from Pakistan's Media Spheres

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    • Zhu Zhang, Christopher Carothers: “One Team, Two Nameplates”: Why China’s Ruling Institutions Are Increasingly Taking on Dual Identities

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    • Tabitha Speelman: Skilled Migrants Wanted? Policy Tensions in the Implementation of Shanghai’s “New Talent Regime”

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    • Yao Song, Xiao Tan: The Shenzhen Exception: Selective Empowerment and Institutional Innovation in China's Sub-Provincial Governance Under Xi Jinping

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    Analyses

    • Keyu Alexander Chen Glanz: Rivalry on Human Rights: Narratives in Human Rights Reports of the United States and China

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    • Friso M.S. Stevens: Gripped by Fear: China’s Digital “Stability Maintenance” and Revanchist Emotional Nationalism

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    • Monique Taylor: Challenging Dollar Dominance? The Geopolitical Dimensions of Renminbi (RMB) Internationalisation

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    • Zahid Shahab Ahmed, Ayesha Khalid Chaudhry: The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor and Narrative Projection: The Role of Pakistani Think Tanks

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