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Kerry Brown
Kerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London.
Kerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London, and an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, London.
He is the author of The New Emperors (I.B. Tauris, 2014), a book on the leadership of modern China.

February 05, 2014
Attention China and Japan: Grow Up
By Kerry Brown

January 21, 2014
Xi's "Man of the People" Persona
By Kerry Brown

January 11, 2014
How Xi Can Solve The Tibet Problem
By Kerry Brown

December 26, 2013
History, Family, and Entitlement: The New Leaders in Northeast Asia
By Kerry Brown

December 10, 2013
The Battle for Democracy in Hong Kong
By Kerry Brown

November 23, 2013
After The Plenum, All Power To The Party
The real winners of the 2013 Third Plenum are Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party.

November 11, 2013
In China, All Politics are Getting More Local
Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang’s core constituency consists of China’s roughly 3,200 local party leaders.

October 31, 2013
PRC Is Biggest Obstacle to Unification With Taiwan
The dirty secret in cross-Strait relations: China’s political system is the biggest barrier to unification.

October 16, 2013
How Imperial Japan Shaped Modern China
A new book explores how Japan’s brutal occupation is still shaping Sino-Japanese relations.

October 01, 2013
The Allies and Enemies of Xi Jinping
One can learn a lot about the new Chinese leadership by who its allies and enemies are, and how it deals with both.

September 17, 2013
Why China Misses the Unipolar Moment
For Beijing, Syria shows the perils of not having a global hegemon to rely on.

September 02, 2013
China and India: Mirror Images?
Beijing and Delhi complement each other nicely. While China has development down, India excels at the political.