What Is Xinanigans?

Xinanigans is my open-source intelligence brief on China’s strategic behavior. I track internal doctrine, perception management, and elite decision-making from the inside out, focusing on how the system thinks, not just what it does.

I examine how the Chinese Communist Party uses bureaucracy, historiography, and narrative warfare to govern power internally before projecting it outward. If Cypher Strategies is where these frameworks are applied in private advisory settings, Xinanigans is where they are developed, tested, and refined.