Orville Schell
Orville Schell is Director of the Center on US-China Relations at the Asia Society.
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2010-08-23
| When it comes to Chinese foreign direct investment, the US and Europe have legitimate reasons to worry about national-security issues. But, if US and EU officials cannot figure out the proper mix between economic engagement and protecting national security, Chinese investment capital will go elsewhere, leaving the US and the EU weaker, not stronger.... read |
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2010-05-21
| A severe drought in Guizhou Province is only one of the many kinds of severe weather aberrations that have been unsettling China of late. Chinese officials have responded with a wide array of engineering mega-projects and technological fixes, but science cannot solve problems that are not caused by China alone.... read |
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2009-09-22
| China’s government is making massive preparations for a grand National Day parade in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to celebrate both the 60th anniversary of the PRC’s founding and the 30th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping’s program of “reform and opening up.” And, while the country is humming with energy, money, plans, leadership, and forward motion, the West seems paralyzed. ... read |
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2009-08-21
| The Strategic and Economic Dialogue between the US and China has now ended with the establishment of a felicitous new atmosphere between the two countries. But, while the most logical and potentially fruitful area of collaboration is climate change, huge obstacles to progress remain.... read |
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2009-02-17
| US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s decision to make her first overseas trip to Asia, particularly China, was a smart one. It is inevitable and right that she will bring up Tibet, human rights, and other contentious issues in Beijing, though all evidence suggests that she will do so in the context of a re-formatted US-China relationship that places collaboration at its heart.... read |
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2008-08-25
| While the Olympics highlighted China’s recent achievements, its efforts to gain a full measure of international respect and real “great power” status will not succeed until it matches its economic and military power with moral leadership. For strength unalloyed by checks and balances – and by a capacity for self-critical reflection – merely causes the rest of the world to recoil in fear.... read |
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2007-07-11
| The West should not be surprised by the spate of reports of China's poisonous foods, fake medicines, and defective products. On the contrary, the West should recognize its complicty in a development strategy that has left China's economy bereft of adequate regulation.... read |
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2007-05-24
| China's leaders view the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing as a national coming-out party. But, if China is to emerge as a global power, it must abandon its nineteenth-century conception of national sovereignty, as well as reform its system of governance sufficiently to modernize and develop successfully.... read |
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2006-12-28
| “It is our obligation as Japan’s most influential newspaper to tell our readers who was responsible for starting the Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War.” So writes Tsuneo Watanabe, Editor-in-Chief of Japan’s (and the world’s) most widely circulated newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun , in the introduction to the book From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Ha rbor: Who Was Responsible . ... read |
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The Hothouse of US-China Relations
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Orville Schell 
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As Hu Jintao, China’s Communist Party Secretary General and President, prepares to visit the US on April 20, myriad unresolved issues are disturbing Sino-US relations. Debates rage over the bilateral trade balance and revaluation of the renminbi, the status of Taiwan and Tibet, human rights violations, and intellectual property theft. China’s role in restraining North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and its tense relations with Japan are an additional burden on ties. There is even disagreement about whether Hu’s trip to Washington is an official “state visit.”... read
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2003-09-11
| As the 82 nd anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party approached last July, the Party's new General Secretary, Hu Jintao, seemed on the verge of announcing a whole new range of reforms. In a ceremony celebrating the promulgation of the current 1982 constitution, Hu reportedly expressed interest in strengthening constitutional protections against official intrusions in people's lives and in promoting extensive legal reform. Indeed, he was even rumored to be considering more inner-Party democratization, greater press freedom, strengthening non-Communist political parties, and permitting exiled dissidents to return home. ... read |
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2005-04-22
| A contest for China’s soul is now underway in that giant country, pitting two powerful forces and two very different stances toward the outside world against each other. The outcome will have a major impact on whether China succeeds in becoming a nation capable of having truly constructive and durable relations with the outside world. ... read |
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2005-07-04
| America’s relations with China have a disturbing tendency to oscillate between embrace and rejection, and that manic ambivalence is now on open display, as China’s relentlessly mounting economic power has finally resulted in the inevitable: Chinese firms are starting to buy up American companies.... read |
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2004-06-15
| On June 1, Dr. Jiang Yanyong, a surgeon at Beijing 301 Military Hospital, and his wife, Dr. Hua Zhongwei, both seventy-two years old, left home to pick up a visa at the American Embassy. They have not been heard from since. ... read |
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2006-04-10
| As Hu Jintao, China’s Communist Party Secretary General and President, prepares to visit the US on April 20, myriad unresolved issues are disturbing Sino-US relations. Debates rage over the bilateral trade balance and revaluation of the renminbi, the status of Taiwan and Tibet, human rights violations, and intellectual property theft. China’s role in restraining North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and its tense relations with Japan are an additional burden on ties. There is even disagreement about whether Hu’s trip to Washington is an official “state visit.”... read |
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2005-01-19
| So, at last former Chinese Premier and Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang has died. But the political agenda that he espoused while in office passed away long ago, on May 19, 1989, when he appeared in Tiananmen Square just before dawn to beg tearfully for the forgiveness of protesters. “I am very sorry,” he said to startled onlookers. “I have come too late.” After that, he existed more as an historical chimera than as a real person. ... read |
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2009-08-21
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| The Strategic and Economic Dialogue between the US and China has now ended with the establishment of a felicitous new atmosphere between the two countries. But, while the most logical and potentially fruitful area of collaboration is climate change, huge obstacles to progress remain.... read |
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2004-03-15
| Why is Taiwan's relationship with China so intractable an issue? Why, when they share common economic interests - one million Taiwanese live on the Mainland, working in some 50,000 firms in which Taiwanese have invested over $400 billion - does China aim 500 short-range missiles at Taiwan? ... read |
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2008-08-25
| While the Olympics highlighted China’s recent achievements, its efforts to gain a full measure of international respect and real “great power” status will not succeed until it matches its economic and military power with moral leadership. For strength unalloyed by checks and balances – and by a capacity for self-critical reflection – merely causes the rest of the world to recoil in fear.... read |
