Timothy Garton Ash: China and the New World Order
Caixin has posted a three-part interview with historian and author Timothy Garton Ash about “China and the New World Order.” All three parts can be viewed on the Caixin website. From their...
View ArticleClinton: China Must “Embrace Its New Role”
At an event marking the 40th anniversary of U.S. President Richard Nixon’s 1972 trip to Beijing, which ended 25 years of diplomatic estrangement between the sides, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...
View ArticleNiall Ferguson: China’s Got the Whole World in its Hands
Controversial historian Niall Ferguson, who co-coined the term Chimerica to describe the symbiotic relationship between China and the U.S., has produced a three-part series on China for Channel 4. The...
View ArticleFalling: China’s Share of Global Arms Imports
While China’s military budget will rise above $100bn for the first time in 2012, and double by 2015, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) claims that less and less of that...
View ArticlePentagon: China’s Military Getting Stronger
In an annual report to Congress on military and security developments in China, released on Friday, The Pentagon detailed the significant investment in and modernization of China’s military as its...
View ArticleChina Seen Edging Past U.S. as Top Economic Power
In a recent global Pew Research Center survey, respondents viewed China as the world’s top economic power for the first time. Yet overall perceptions of China varied as in some countries positive views...
View ArticlePolls Show US Concerns Over a Rising China
Committee of 100 (百人会), a non-partisan, non-profit organization striving to bring “a Chinese-American perspective to issues concerning Asian Americans and U.S.-China relations” recently released the...
View ArticleIn Mongolia, Clinton Calls Out China
Speaking yesterday at an international forum on democracy in Mongolia, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised the nation as an “inspiration” for linking political and economic liberalization,...
View ArticleHow China Saw the Olympic Opening Ceremony
Since the opening of the Beijing Olympics four years ago—a declaration of national arrival which awed some and terrified others—the question has lingered of how London would follow it. Comparisons were...
View ArticleImpressions of America From the Streets of China
At The Washington Post, U.C. Berkeley’s Center for Digital TV and The World presents a series of interviews with passers-by on America, Sino-U.S. relations, and how China’s rise will affect them. “In...
View ArticleNew Destroyer Signals Chinese Naval Shift
For The Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report, Gabe Collins and Andrew Erickson discuss the implications of the recent launch of China’s new destroyer, called the Type 052D Luyang III-class,...
View ArticleU.S.-China Tensions: What Must Kerry Do?
In the latest installment of China File’s Conversations series, Elizabeth Economy, Andrew J. Nathan and Orville Schell respond to Nina Hachigian’s recommendations to new U.S. secretary of state John...
View ArticleWhat to Make of China’s Military Spending?
Much attention is given to the annual announcement of China’s defense budget, which last week’s budget report indicated would grow about 11% to about US$115 billion this year, and the RAND...
View ArticleWill the Chinese Be Supreme?
For the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson reviews three recent books, Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China’s Economic Dominance, by Arvind Subramanian; The Rise of China vs. the Logic of...
View ArticleAl Jazeera: China Rising
Al Jazeera has produced a four-part series looking at various aspects of China’s rise. Three of four episodes have been broadcast; the fourth will be shown later this month. From their introduction: In...
View ArticleState Media Highlights China’s Naval Prowess
A little more than a year after China’s first aircraft carrier joined the PLA’s naval ranks, China’s bilingual state media has put China’s naval capabilities into the spotlight with a series of...
View ArticleChina’s National Rejuvenation Now 65.3% Complete
Following an update to China’s unofficial rejuvenation index, Josh Chin examines the formula used to calculate it. From China Real Time: “I would like to ask, how was this little number calculated?”...
View ArticleGlobal Times Poll Shows China’s Limited Soft Power
The AFP reports on the “China’s Global Image and International Influence in 2013″ (2013中国国际形象与国际影响力全球调查) [zh], a recent survey by conducted by the Global Times. The survey’s results, published by the...
View ArticleLegal Pot Doesn’t Mean US Will Lose Ground to China
After popular votes late last year, Washington and Colorado are now the first two U.S. states to have legalized the recreational use of marijuana. A host of other coastal states have decriminalized the...
View ArticleWill China’s Rise Lead to War?
As the country’s new official map indicates, China’s assertion over its maritime claims and disputed territories signals the country’s intended ascent to great power status. David Tweed at Bloomberg...
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