Li Peng's legacy revisited after his recent passing. In a New York Times obituary for Li Peng, who died earlier this month, Cheng Li points out the former Chinese prime minister's role in one of China's most ambitious—and, at the time, controversial—infrastructure projects: "Without Li Peng’s advocacy, the Three Gorges Dam might never have been built."

Hong Kong protests trigger alarms for Xi Jinping. The ongoing protests in Hong Kong, which began in opposition to a bill that would facilitate extraditions to Mainland China but have grown to encompass broader complaints, are surely holding the close attention of President Xi Jinping. In an interview, Ryan Hass told The New York Times that the lessons of the Arab Spring are "seared into [Xi's] brain."

Brookings discussion explores role of technology in U.S.-China trade war. During a recent public event, Cheng Li explained how the impact of "decoupling" between the U.S. and Chinese economies has already started to show: "There was almost zero mutual investment in the tech sector between the United States and China last year," Li pointed out. The event was also reported on by China Review (in Chinese).