2026 China Risk

China This Week (Special Edition): Your Complete 2026 Risk Framework

A single briefing file to carry China’s 2026 risk landscape into the year ahead.

Jan 9 • Erika Lafrennie

The 7 Unthinkables: China’s Black Swan Scenarios for 2026

How a tightly controlled system creates the conditions for shocks it cannot see coming

Jan 6 • Erika Lafrennie

Five Strategic Gambits Beijing Will Attempt in 2026 (and Their Hidden Weaknesses)

What China will try in 2026, and the structural pressures that shape each move.

Dec 30, 2025 • Erika Lafrennie

What We Got Wrong About China in 2025

Xinanigans is a strategic intelligence brief on China’s governing system—psychological, systemic, and unnervingly readable.

Dec 23, 2025 • Erika Lafrennie

Top 10 Fault Lines China Can’t Acknowledge (But You Should Watch Closely)

What China’s leaders cannot acknowledge in 2026, and how these fractures shape the system from within.

Dec 16, 2025 • Erika Lafrennie

The 10 Most Dangerous Ideas in Beijing Right Now

What China’s leadership believes heading into 2026, and why it could break the system.

Dec 9, 2025 • Erika Lafrennie

China 2026: Risk Is the Strategy

A note from the author

Nov 28, 2025 • Erika Lafrennie

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