Michael Spence
President Xi’s Singapore Lessons
NEW YORK – China is at a crucial point today, as it was in 1978, when the market reforms launched by Deng Xiaoping opened its economy to the…
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China has unveiled its new leadership, including President-designate Xi Jinping, who will run the country for the next decade. At home, the new leadership will face slowing economic growth and increased pressure to revalue the renminbi. Meanwhile, with regional tensions running high, the US has shifted its focus to Asia in order to offset China's increasing influence. How will the country's new leadership manage mounting economic and geopolitical challenges?
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Michael Boskin
A New Agenda for China’s New Leaders?
STANFORD – Political leadership transitions typically signal either a change in direction or continuity. But the mere prospect of such a tra…
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Harold Brown
America’s Trouble with China
WASHINGTON, DC – Xi Jinping, China’s newly anointed president, made his first visit to the United States in May 1980. He was a 27-year-old j…
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Paola Subacchi
China’s Growth Challenge
BEIJING – Throughout the just concluded 18th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party ubiquitous television screens in trains and metro stati…
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Minxin Pei
China’s Troubled Bourbons
CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – Sometimes the books that a country’s top leaders read can reveal a lot about what they are thinking. So one of the b…
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Yu Yongding
China’s Rebalancing Act
BEIJING – China’s 12th Five-Year Plan calls for a shift in the country’s economic model from export-led growth toward greater reliance on do…
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Zhang Monan
Renminbi Rising
BEIJING – On October 26, the renminbi’s spot exchange rate against the US dollar reached the upper limit of its floating range for the secon…
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Christopher R. Hill
China’s House Divided
DENVER – There has been much talk about America’s decline in recent years, with the corollary that China will take its place. But, while the…
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Ana Palacio
The Next Task for China’s New Leaders
BEIJING – On a recent fact-finding trip to China, organized by the European Council on Foreign Relations, I began with the assumption that t…
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Minxin Pei
China in the Eye of the Beholder
CLAREMONT – One of the most glaring, if unremarked, oddities concerning China nowadays is how perceptions of its leaders diverge depending o…
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