Members of the Chinese military delegation arrive at the closing session of the rubber-stamp National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 12, 2026. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
Virtually obscured by international media interest in the Israeli–American attack on Iran that had begun a few days before, the annual meeting of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) convened. Within the foreign China-watching community, by contrast, there was intense scrutiny of the proceedings.
June Teufel Dreyer
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June Teufel Dreyer is a professor of politics at the University of Miami, a senior fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a faculty adviser to the Rumsfeld Foundation, and a former commissioner of the congressionally-mandated U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Her books include studies on China’s ethnic minorities, Sino-Japanese relations, a comprehensive treatment of Chinese government now in its 10th edition, and an edited volume on Taiwan politics.
