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中华人民共和国

Asia's New Power Brokers

Robert Kaplan, Stratfor

The U.S. Is Behaving Like China

Ai Weiwei, The Guardian

China Gaining on U.S. in Space Race

Tom Hartsfield, RealClearScience

A Smarter Way to Deal with China

Joseph Nye, Los Angeles Times

Though the U.S. and Chinese presidents heralded a “new model” of cooperation at their weekend summit, a growing competition looks more likely. The whirlwind of activity before ...(full article)

Significant movements in world affairs often go unnoticed by the media. For what fits inside the strictures of hard news are usually dramatic statements by politicians, dramatic ac...(full article)

Both governments think they are doing what is best for the state and people. But, as I know, such abuse of power can ruin lives....(full article)

Since 2011 the United States has launched exactly zero astronauts into space. Meanwhile China has sent up six, including three on Tuesday. In 2012, China successfully launched 19 r...(full article)

China will almost certainly pass the United States in the total size of its economy within a decade or so. But if one looks also at military and "soft power" resources, the U.S. is...(full article)

Most Recent Articles

Xi Jinping's Chinese Youth Dilemma - Mu Chunshan, The Diplomat

Many people in the West remember the Tiananmen Square incident of June 4, 1989. Far fewer are aware that nearly 100 years ago another generation of young Chinese demonstrated in th...

Realpolitik and Spinning the U.S.-China Summit - Isaac Fish, NYT

According to a Chinese article widely circulated on the Internet, the Obama-Xi summit meeting last weekend has made Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan jealous. Published in People&...

American Dream Is Still Alive ... in China - Sophie Lu, Tea Leaf Nation

Over the last two weeks, the movie, American Dreams in China (中国合伙人) has been the number one box office hit in China, selling over 400 million tickets to date. The movie ...

A Fresh Start for a Critical Relationship - New York Times

There was never any guarantee that President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China would end their informal talks over the weekend with a deeper and more productive relationship....

Make China Pay for Thievery - Wall Street Journal

Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Obama emerged from their "shirt-sleeve summit" on the weekend touting new cooperation on climate change and North Korea. The big exceptio...

India's Stategic Failure in Central Asia - Stephen Blank, The Diplomat

India’s political, cultural, and historical ties to Central Asia date back to antiquity. But contemporary circumstances, namely the quest for energy and the threat of terrorism...

WIth China, Trust But Verify - Ottawa Citizen

Ronald Reagan, that ardent warrior of the Cold War, used a signature phrase — a Russian proverb, as it happens — to explain his approach to relations with the Soviet Union: ...

China's Economy Continues to Slow - Gordon Chang, Forbes

Analysts are busy revising their China 2013 growth estimates downwards after Beijing, ahead of a three-day holiday, released May numbers this weekend. Trade figures, announced ye...

Xi Leaves U.S. with the Upper Hand - Joseph Bosco, The National Interest

Why Xi got the upper hand in his recent visit to the United States....

Deep Inside the NSA's Anti-China Hacking Army - Matthew Aid, FP

This weekend, President Barack Obama sat down for a series of meetings with China's newly appointed leader, Xi Jinping. We know that the two leaders spoke at length about the topic...

China's Left Behind - Helen Gao, World Policy Journal

The most recent survey from the All-China Women’s Federation found some 61 million “left-behind children” across China, who are growing up without one or both par...

Why Germany and China Must Team Up - Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail

They are half a world apart, separated by a gulf of language and history and democracy, but the two most successful countries in the world are coming to resemble each other in impo...

Obama-Xi Summit: Happy Talk, No Substance - Donald Kirk, Forbes

The best you can say about the Obama-Xi summit was that it happened. The fact that these two leaders both traveled a few thousand miles to see each other in lovely southern Califor...

Greek Wisdom for the U.S. & China - Nayan Chanda, Times of India

As China's Xi Jinping and Barack Obama wrap up their first presidential summit in California, some ancient Greek wisdom is in the news. It is about a long war bet-ween Sparta and A...

Chinese & U.S. Dreams Can't Coexist - Marco Rubio, Foreign Policy

Although Xi's dream has echoes of the American Dream, these two visions are very different and ultimately incompatible if China desires to become a "responsible stakeholder" in the...

China's Brutal Labor Camps - Brice Pedroletti, Worldcrunch/Le Monde

In China, women expose the brutality of labor camps....

U.S. Should Hope China Wins the Iraq War - Zachary Keck, The Diplomat

The New York Times report that China purchases nearly half of Iraq’s oil exports set off something of a firestorm in the U.S this week. In fact, outrage over the NYT’s article ...

U.S. and China in a Web of Warfare - John Gapper, Financial Times

Peng Liyuan, China’s first lady, may want to get herself a new phone. The wife of Xi Jinping, the president, was snapped this week in Mexico taking pictures on an iPhone. The...

A Special Relationship with Global Importance - The Independent

There is an old adage that the value of summits is in inverse proportion to the number of participants, and that is doubly true when the two countries involved are China and the US...

Seoul, Beijing Move to Boost Military Ties - Korea Times

Gen. Jung Seung-jo, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, flew to Beijing on a C-130 military transport plane Tuesday for the first official visit to China by a South Korean milit...

Will Rising China Provoke War? - The Economist

There are plenty of good reasons for America to be nervous about the rise of a new economic giant and to be angry about cyber-attacks, obstructionism over Syria or the regime&rsquo...

U.S. and China Will Never Trust Each Other - Minxin Pei, Foreign Policy

China and the United States simply do not trust one another. And nothing seems to change that, no matter how many high-level exchanges, strategic dialogues, informal consultations,...

China's Growth Has Taken an Awful Toll - Yanzhong Huang, Yale Global

Emerging from the ranks of one of the world's poorest nations to second only to the United States, China is destined for a place in the history books. But history may also record t...

U.S. & China Should Stop Striving for 'Trust' - Denny Roy, The Diplomat

While dealing with his Cold War nemesis the Soviet Union, U.S. President Ronald Reagan said he liked to employ the aphorism “trust but verify.”  I thought at the t...

Washington & Beijing Need a Reset Button - Orville Schell, Daily Beast

Washington and Beijing could use a breakthrough in their fraught relationship, writes Orville Schell. And ahead of this weekend’s summit, they have more in common than ever....

Asian Maritime Disputes Are Here to Stay - Chico Harlan, Washington Post

These are tense times in Asia’s waters. In just the past month, Vietnam accused a Chinese vessel of ramming one of its fishing boats, damaging the hull. The Philippines prote...

Here's How the U.S. & China Could Get Along - Donald Gross, Huff Post

This week's summit meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Barack Obama offers a historic opportunity to improve U.S.-China relations - but only if both sides fr...

China Pushes India & Japan Close - Harsh Pant, Yale Global

With China's aggressive assertion of its territorial claims causing general concern, it has taken to wooing one of its major rivals - India. While not spurning China's move, India ...

No Time to Be Shortsighted with China - Bloomberg

Shortsighted is the one thing that custodians of the U.S.- China relationship can’t afford to be. And for more than three decades, American and Chinese leaders have taken the...

How Obama Failed to Make Friends with China - Isaac Fish, Foreign Policy

It all seemed so promising. In December 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama flew to Copenhagen to try to reach an agreement on a legally binding treaty for climate change. The sheer ...

Bully? China Has Never Felt More Vulnerable - David Pilling, FT

History looms larger for those who lost. Chinese President Xi Jinping, who on Thursday meets Barack Obama, his US counterpart, in California, bears national expectations that have ...

Don't Treat China Like a Superpower - Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post

China has always played a weak hand brilliantly. When Mao Zedong and Zhou met with Nixon and Henry Kissinger, China was in the midst of economic, political and cultural chaos. Its ...

The Path to Korean Stability - Zachary Keck, The Diplomat

With North Korea likely to field a reliable nuclear deterrent within the next 5-10 years, the U.S. has a closing window of opportunity to end the cyclical provocations from Pyong...

Can the U.S. and China Avoid a Destructive Conflict? - New York Times

This week’s summit meeting between President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China is an important opportunity for the leaders of the world’s two largest economies to...

Pursuit of Happiness in China - Sun Le, Worldcrunch/Economic Observer

Who are the happiest people in China? In a survey conducted by Xiaokang (meaning basically well-off) magazine last year, in the eyes of the public, civil servant comes top of the l...

Japan Is Steadily Provoking China - M K Bhadrakumar, Asia Times

In an increasingly tense Asia, Japan is making a series of diplomatic and political moves that are enraging China. The consequences could be severe....

Philippines vs. China Moves to the UN - The Strategist

"What belongs to us belongs to us," Benigno S. Aquino III, President of the Philippines, said in a speech marking the 115th anniversary of the country's navy. In January of this ye...

Huge Potential for the Obama-Xi Talks - Robert Keatley, National Interest

Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping won’t be the first notables to check into the sprawling Sunnylands estate in Southern California in search of seclusion and a chance fo...

China's Claim on S. China Sea Is Fiction - Mohan Malik, World Affairs Jrnl

The Spratly Islands—not so long ago known primarily as a rich fishing ground—have turned into an international flashpoint as Chinese leaders insist with increasing truc...

Did Michelle Obama Hurt U.S.-China Diplomacy? - Max Fisher, WaPo

When President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet this weekend for a highly anticipated trust-building summit in California, Xi will have his wife with him. But first lady...

China Is Buying Up Iraqi Oil, and That's OK - Max Fisher, Washington Post

Looking in isolation just at the growing Chinese stake in Iraqi oil and putting aside for a moment the symbolic power of that trend, it’s worth remembering that the global en...

Did Americans Die in Iraq for ... China? - Andrew Sullivan, The Dish

In case the Iraq war was not catastrophe enough, we now know what the trillion dollars and thousands of US casualties and injuries and tens of thousands of sectarian deaths were fo...

Obama and Xi Must Halt Risky Rivalry - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

It is true that, even after China becomes the world’s largest economy, the average American will be far richer than the average Chinese. It is also true that the US military has ...

China: From Cyberwar to Supply Chain Sabotage? - Dan McGroarty, RCW

Connect the dots, and it appears that the formidable force multiplier of U.S. defense technology has been compromised by a potential adversary's ability to carbon copy -- for a fra...

China Crisis Is Good for the Global Economy - William Pesek, Bloomberg

The world should stop panicking over China (CNGDPYOY)’s economic slowdown. It’s actually a good thing....

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