INTERNATIONAL INSIGHT
China Stands Up
As Asia’s giant continues its rise, China‘s impact is being felt everywhere, with its economy a major factor in world trade and the modernized People’s Liberation Army a mounting concern. China’s appetite for cars, computers, and other goods promises both to spawn the world’s biggest market and to pose a danger to the global environment.
Edited by renowned China scholar and former Dean of University of California's School of Journalism, Orville Schell, the series brings to the readers of Project Syndicate's member papers the views of the most important experts, statesmen, and scholars from China and around the world.
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China’s Cyber-Warriors
Brahma Chellaney Series: China Stands Up 2010-01-28China deploys tens of thousands of “cyber police” to block Web sites, patrol cyber-cafes, monitor the use of cellular telephones, and track down Internet activists. But China's real threat to cyberspace comes comes from the way in which it uses its know-how to engage in cyber intrusion across international frontiers.... read Comments: 1 Recommended: 0 Read: 2905 -
Managing China’s Crisis Management
Yu Yongding Series: China Stands Up 2010-01-14
The Chinese government has signaled that it is beginning its exit from expansionary measures aimed at mitigating the impact of the global financial crisis and recession. A change of policy can't come soon enough: China’s long-term growth prospects may be seriously affected if the authorities fail to tackle the economy’s structural problems head on. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 2852 -
China’s Excess-Capacity Nightmare
Mark DeWeaver Series: China Stands Up 2009-12-22In sector after sector, Mao Zedong's dream of attaining higher industrial output in China than in the West has finally been realized. For Chinese central planners, however, the country's hypetrophied industrial base has become a cause for alarm rather than celebration.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 1 Read: 5508 -
Obama’s Chinese Balance Sheet
Wei Zhang Series: China Stands Up 2009-11-27
On balance, Obama’s first trip to China achieved relatively little. Moreover, what he did achieve looks superficial, while what he gave up – concessions on China's political prisoners or its exchange-rate policy - seems substantial.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 2963 -
The Summit of Low Expectations
Susan L. Shirk Series: China Stands Up 2009-10-26In the run-up to President Barack Obama’s first visit to China next month. American and Chinese diplomats have been compiling lists of ongoing cooperative endeavors in case no new agreements materialize. Indeed, that outcome appears highly likely.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 2847 -
China’s Short March
Orville Schell Series: China Stands Up 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 Comments: 1 Recommended: 0 Read: 3317 -
A New Sino-American Relationship?
Orville Schell Series: China Stands Up 2009-08-21The 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 Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 4609 -
Shining a Light on Climate Change
Ban Ki-moon Series: China Stands Up 2009-07-27
NEW YORK – A light bulb may not be the first thing that springs to mind when thinking about revolutionary technology. Yet science and smart policy have the potential in today’s world to transform an ordinary household object into a revolutionary innovation.... read Comments: 1 Recommended: 0 Read: 4827 -
The China-US Climate Duet
Changhua Wu Series: China Stands Up 2009-07-22Without active collaboration between the US and China, the odds for successful negotiations in Copenhagen this December to secure a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol will be diminished. Indeed, absent such cooperation, it is unlikely that any meaningful remedy would be found in time to arrest rising global temperatures. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 4466
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