Socialism 3.0 in China
As China’s 2012 power transition approaches, politicians and academics are racing to find the theme that will define the country’s direction for the next eight years. The inclinations of Xi Jinping,...
View ArticleChinese Foreign Policy After Hu
In about a year’s time, a new group of leaders in Beijing will succeed President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao. At the moment, analysts are focused primarily on the make-up of the nine-member...
View ArticleThe Fraying of China’s Gilded Age
Published in 1873, Mark Twain’s novel The Gilded Age describes a post-Reconstruction United States in which rapid economic growth generated tremendous wealth for the upper class, and technological...
View ArticleWhat was China’s Khmer Rouge Role?
On a 300 hectare expanse in a remote part of central Cambodia, a massive airstrip capable of handling the heaviest of bombers lies abandoned. A Cold War relic, the 1.4 kilometer runway has rarely been...
View ArticleWhy U.S., China Destined to Clash
Few geopolitical events in the 20th century could compare to Richard Nixon’s historic visit to China 40 years ago. Today, the “week that changed the world” is chiefly remembered as a bold gamble in...
View ArticleThe Curse of China’s Identity Fixation
The problems confronting the Sino-U.S. relationship were always going to be too severe to expect a boost in bilateral relations from Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping’s coast-to-coast tour of the...
View ArticleWhat China’s Leaders Fear Most
The news that Chinese prosecutors have filed formal murder charges against Gu Kailai, the wife of disgraced former Communist Party boss of Chongqing Bo Xilai, has conjured up tantalizing images of a...
View ArticleChina’s Self-Absorbed Nationalism
The mid-August popular demonstrations in Chinese cities and accompanying media and internet commentary against Japan over disputed islands in the East China Sea put pressure on Chinese officials to be...
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China’s New Leadership: Unveiled
After months of tenuous purges, endless political jockeying, and (often erroneous) Western media speculation, the seven men who will lead China for the next five years (and in some cases, the next...
View ArticleChina’s Next Leap Forward: From Comrades to Consumers
On June 20 of last year, two and a half months after disgraced former Chongqing Communist Party Chief Bo Xilai was dropped from the Politburo, another member of China’s elite 25-man decision-making...
View ArticleChina’s Prickly Gaddafi Ties
Relations between Muammar Gaddafi and Beijing have often been awkward. But don't write off Libya ties just yet.
View ArticleSocialism 3.0 in China
Bo Xilai has a reputation as a rising political rock star. But do his ‘Red Culture’ policies in Chongqing really offer a viable model for China?
View ArticleChinese Foreign Policy After Hu
Will the upcoming change in Chinese leadership prompt a dramatic shift in China's foreign policy? History suggests it could.
View ArticleThe Fraying of China’s Gilded Age
China’s rapid economic advances over the past three decades are undeniable. But as social pressures build, is the country set to relive the trauma of America’s Gilded Age?
View ArticleDoes China Get Freedom?
Was Deng Xiaoping the last Chinese leader with the authority to ignore symbolic issues overseas?
View ArticleWhat was China’s Khmer Rouge Role?
As the trial of former senior Khmer Rouge members continues, debate rages over how much China’s leadership knew about a key slave labor project.
View ArticleRevising Deng’s Foreign Policy
Recent comments by General Ma Xiaotian suggest a shift from Deng Xiaoping's approach to foreign policy.
View ArticleRevising Deng’s Foreign Policy
Recent comments by General Ma Xiaotian suggest a shift from Deng Xiaoping's approach to foreign policy.
View ArticleWhy U.S., China Destined to Clash
Forty years after Nixon’s extraordinary visit to China, a clash of political systems exists that not even shared economic interests can mask.
View ArticleThe Curse of China’s Identity Fixation
As China’s leadership prepares for its transition to the fifth generation, a fixation on identity and core interests is a troubling sign for U.S. ties.
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