Media
Podcasts
2023 Yasheng Huang on the Development of the Chinese State: Conversation With Tyler
2022 On Chinese political system: Intelligence Squared
2022 On the power of the Chinese state: Apple Podcast
2022 On my forthcoming book: Apple Podcast
2020 On the initial COVID responses: Sound Cloud
2019 On state capitalism: Apple Podcast
2018 On trade war: The China Project
2013 My rebuttal to Eric Li: TED
Articles
2022 “China’s COVID protests are powerful, but they cannot challenge Xi Jinping’s regime”, Boston Globe, December 6th.
2022 “Xi Broke the Social Contract That Helped China Prosper”, New York Times, December 1st.
2022 “China's Moment of Decision”, Project Syndicate, March 7th.
2020 “China Has a Big Economic Problem, and It Isn’t the Trade War”, New York Times, January 17th.
2020 “Trump’s Right-Wing Rainbow Coalition”, Project Syndicate, December 14th.
2020 “How digital contact tracing slowed Covid-19 in East Asia”, Harvard Business Review, April 15th.
2020 “No, Autocracies Aren't Better for Public Health”, Boston Review, April 14th.
2019 “Trump Has Succeeded. Now Lots of Chinese People Are Buying Huawei Phones”, New York Times, August 9th.
2019 “Can the Belt and Road Become a Trap for China?”, Project Syndicate, May 22nd.
2018 “China’s use of big data might actually make it less big-brotherish”, MIT Technology Review, August 22nd.
2018 “Jack Ma is retiring: Is Chinese economy losing steam?” New York Times, September 28th.
2018 “America's Second Sputnik Moment?”, Project Syndicate, Jul 6th.
2017 “A bull named Trump in a shop called China”, Project Syndicate, January 8th.
2016 “A Presidential Truthfulness Oath”, Project Syndicate, December 23rd.
2016 “How not to be a democracy”, Huffington Post, November 13th.
2016 “Technology push”, South China Morning Post, March 5th.
2016 “Controlling interests”, South China Morning Post, January 21st.
2015 “One-child lessons”, South China Morning Post, November 28th.
2015 “Can middle income trap happen to middle kingdom?”, International Finance Magazine, October-December.
2015 “How bad policymaking burst the China bubble”, Cover story, India Today, August 30th.
2015 “China must focus on real growth, not phony numbers”, New York Times, August 27th.
2015 “The End of China’s Growth Model”, Boston Globe, August 24th.
2015 “Stock Markets Vex China's Leaders”, New York Times, August 6th.
2014 “Bad Management Will Catch Up With China's Economy”, New York Times, April 8th.
2013 “Why democracy still wins: A critique of Eric X. Li’s “A tale of two political systems”, TED guest author, July 1st.
2013 “Democratize or die: Why China’s communists face reform or revolution”, Foreign Affairs, January/February.
2013 “China’s challenge”, MIT Technology Review, January 2nd.
2012 “The key to bringing democracy to China”, Foreign Policy, November 19th.
2012 “The dawn for a new China?”, New York Times Room for Debate, November 22nd.
2012 “Should US seek more tech manufacturing?”, New York Times Room for Debate, August 15th.
2010 “Educated and fearing the future in China”, New York Times Room for Debate, March 7th.
2010 “Gross democratic product”, Forbes India, May.
2010 “The fallacy of Beijing Consensus”, Wall Street Journal, June.
2010 “China’s other path”, Wilson Quarterly, May.
2009 “Human capital development: The reason behind China’s growth”, Economic Times, December 20.
2009 “Schumpeterian economics for Chindia”, Forbes, April 3.
2009 “Global crisis offers China a chance for change”, The Guardian, May 17th.
2008 “Private ownership: The sources of Chinese economic miracle”, McKinsey Quarterly, December.
2008 “China’s growth fantasy”, Wall Street Journal, December 22, 2008.
2008 “The Next Asian Miracle”, Foreign Policy, July/August.
2008 “Should Mumbai learn from Shanghai?”, Economic and Political Weekly.
2007 “Roots of China’s miracle”, Financial Times, October 21.
2007 “China is no haven for entrepreneurs”, Financial Times, February 2nd.
2006 “Zhejiang’s entrepreneurs are a model for China”, Financial Times, October 1st.
2006 “The microeconomic rise of India”, Far Eastern Economic Review, March.
2006 “Why is China still poor?”, Emerging Markets, May 4th.
2006 “Should China learn from India’s slow and quiet rise?”, Financial Times, January 26th.
2005 “China’s big hope is not Hong Kong”, Financial Times, January.
2005 “China’s strength begins at home”, Financial Times, June 2.
2004 “ASEAN’s institutions are still poor in shape”, (With Bernard Yeung), Financial Times, September 2.
2004 “China is just catching up”, Financial Times, June 8.
2004 “China’s growth masks weaknesses”, Financial Times, April 22.
2003 “Can India overtake China?”, (co-authored with Tarun Khanna), Foreign Policy, July/August (excerpted or reprinted in numerous publications in Asia, Australia, Russia and Europe).
2002 “Two Cheers for Jiang’s Three Represents”, Project Syndicate, November.
2001 “Why Do Chinese Firms Stay Home?”, Project Syndicate, November.
2001 “Why Overseas Chinese Dominate China's Exports”, Project Syndicate, May.
2001 “Internal and External Reforms in China”, Cato Journal, Vol. 21, No. 13 (Spring/Summer).
2000 “Capital Controls: China’s Stellar FDI Flows?”, Wall Street Journal Europe, September 29.
2000 “Foreign Direct Investment: Why China Needs So Much?”, Harvard China Review, Spring/Summer.
1999 “The Triumph of China’s Free Traders”, Asian Wall Street Journal, November 18.
1999 “Third Front”, Time (International edition), October.
1999 “WTO Entry is Critical to China’s Stability”, Asian Wall Street Journal, September 28.
1999 “A Chinese Nightmare”, Newsweek (International edition), March 22.
1998 “Going with the Flow”, Harvard Asia Pacific Review, Summer.
1996 “Taiwan Made a Wrong Move”, Asian Wall Street Journal, March 15-16.
1996 “Forces Shaping Sino-US Ties”, ISEAS Trends of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and Business Times in Singapore, January 27 (excerpted in Strait Times of Singapore and Bangkok Post of Thailand).
1995 “Why China Will Not Collapse”, Foreign Policy, No. 99, Summer, pp. 54-68 (excerpted in Asian Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal Europe, Minnesota Star Tribune, New Straits Times of Malaysia and translated and printed in Chinese newspapers and journals such as World Journal, United Daily, and Strategy and Management).
1994 “Beijing's Polite Politics”, New York Times, November 14.