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  • ?Version=Chinese Newsart for 中国掠夺印度领土

    中国掠夺印度领土

    新德里—与日本、越南和菲律宾在东海和南海岛屿整个不休并没有让越来越专断的中国停下脚步，它又新开辟了一条前沿，出兵越界侵入争议中的喜马拉雅边境禁区。4月15日夜，解放军的一个排暗中进入中印巴三方交界附近，深入在印控区19公里扎营，并向印度政府主张具有战略关键意义的750平方公里高海…

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    Praetorian China?

    OSAKA – Do China’s rulers have full civilian control of their country’s military? Asian governments are now regularly asking themselves that…

  • ?Version=Chinese Newsart for 亚洲的资源争夺战

    亚洲的资源争夺战

    新德里——由水、矿石和化石燃料等战略自然资源所引发的竞争一直在国际政治经济秩序的形成中发挥重要作用。但当前竞争已趋于白热化，几乎所有的亚洲国家都牵涉其中，三十年的人口增长和经济快速发展导致这些国家对严重短缺的主要商品胃口越来越大。亚洲是世界资源最贫乏的大陆，对自然资源的过度开采已…

  • ?Version=Chinese Newsart for 亚洲的筑坝水霸权

    亚洲的筑坝水霸权

    新德里—好像为了强调亚洲最大挑战乃是如何应对日渐专横的中国的崛起似的，中国政府披露了在流向他国的大河上建设新大坝的计划。中国国务院无视下游国家的忧虑，决定单方面行动，这表明亚洲面临的主要问题不再是做好适应中国崛起的准备，而是需要说服中国领导人将与邻国合作制度化。中国是亚洲地缘政治…

  • ?Version=Chinese Newsart for 印度经济增长的十字路口

    印度经济增长的十字路口

    马尼拉——世界主要经济体增长复苏毫无起色开始影响到亚洲发展中国家的发展。亚洲主要经济体，特别是印度和中国这两大巨头可能要背负沉重的负担。中印两国的外向型行业已明显遭受重创，而另一方面国内消费则停滞不前。2012年上半年印度固定资产投资仅增长2.3%，相比年初的9%明显放缓。除其他…

  • ?Version=Chinese Newsart for 亚洲梦游者

    亚洲梦游者

    首尔—不管东亚政治家和专家学者是否喜欢，该地区最近的国际关系与19世纪欧洲的实力平衡政治，而不是与当下欧洲的稳定状态更为相似。东亚民族主义和领土纠纷正在升级，同时也缺少有效的制度性机制促成安全合作。尽管中国、日本、韩国和东盟国家的经济联系仍在不断加深，但它们的外交关系充满了敌意和…

  • ?Version=Chinese Newsart for 世袭的亚洲

    世袭的亚洲

    新加坡——从文化对政治影响的角度，东北亚近期频繁的领导层更迭表明亚洲社会即使不支持、也更能容忍世袭继承。最近当选的韩国总统朴槿惠是朴正熙之女，朴正熙在1961至1979年间曾在韩国执政。中国的新任主席习近平是前副总理习仲勋之子。而日本新任首相安倍晋三则是两任前日本首相的孙子和侄孙…

  • ?Version=Chinese Newsart for 东亚转折点

    东亚转折点

    新德里—东亚政治交接将是该地区动荡不安的地缘政治的决定性时刻。习近平成为中国领导人并获得了解放军的认可，日本似乎将在即将到来的选举中向右转——这一结果可能助长中日对峙双方的民族主义热情。在左倾的民主党上台三年后，日本预计将再次向右转。相反，韩国的选举——将于12月19日举行，就在…

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The Asian Century

Will Pakistan implode? Whatever happened to “Asian values”? Is there a Pacific arms race? Will China’s rise swamp Asia’s smaller economies? Will the Taliban’s revival bring chaos to Central Asia? Can Japan ever establish relations of trust with its neighbors?

Sixty percent of the world’s population resides in the countries extending from Afghanistan to the micro-states of Oceania. Immense and immensely diverse, Asia now confronts the simultaneous challenges of modernization and globalization. This compels not only awareness of the wider world, but also accommodations that may clash with embedded values. Modernization offers real material gains, but also incites serious internal divisions.

How Asian states and societies confront, adapt to, and shape change in the region– from technology to finance to politics – will powerfully influence the future of our increasingly interdependent world. The Asian Century, undertaken in cooperation with The Asia Society, one of the world’s premier think tanks on Asian affairs, brings readers a unique mix of leading Asian commentators and decision-makers, as well as Asia experts from around the world.

Contributors have included distinguished figures from across the continent, such as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, former Japanese Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka, former President of the Philippines Fidel V. Ramos, Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai, Singaporean strategic analyst Simon Tay, novelist Arundhati Roy and former South Korean Prime Minister Han Seung-soo.

Whether the issue is China's emergence as a world power, Japan’s tormented relationship to its past, or India’s struggle to combine democracy with fast economic growth, The Asian Century focus on deep trends, unorthodox opinions, and thought-provoking reflections offers a long-term perspective unavailable anywhere else.

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