China 2026: What to Watch is the third iteration of CCA’s flagship report. Our annual exercise—drawing on the expertise of CCA’s in-house and global fellows—aims to do precisely what we set out above: to ask the right questions about China.

China is changing faster than most of us can keep pace. Each month brings new data, new narratives, and new signals from Beijing. Yet the challenge for us is not the quantity of information but how to synthesize the constant flow of statistics, speeches, and policy directives. Lastly, it is knowing what questions to ask about it.