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China Breeding Programme

How powerful is China?

China has the world's 2nd largest economy and has been growing at a 10% rate for over three decades straight. It is also the world's biggest exporter, and has an enormous amount of foreign reserves. Read more...
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China: is “state capitalism” in crisis?

In this week's invited contribution, Emanuele Schibotto* asks if China's "state capitalism" is in crisis. Read more...
David Li Daokui - Annual Meeting of the New Champions Dalian 2009

China's lack of global leadership

China seems neither willing nor able to exert global economic leadership according to Tsinghua University's David Li. Read more...
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China's foreign policy

The enigmatic nature of China's foreign policy is evident as the US pushes China to tame North Korea. An excellent SIPR paper by Linda Jakobson and Dean Knox can help us understand the enigmas. Read more...
Homage to the Unknown Rebel - 4 June, 1989 - Tiananmen Square Massacre

China's democratic future??

Minxin Pei recently wrote an interesting piece speculating on how China could become a democracy. But will China's future really be democratic? Could China even break up, like the former USSR? Read more...
Coca-Cola: Millions to Washington Politicians, Billions to Invest in China (g1a2d0040c1)

China's Communist Party

As the Chinese Communist Party prepares its once in a decade leadership change, and tries to turn the page on its recent scandals, Richard McGregor's book on the Party is essential reading. Read more...
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China's BO Xilai affair

The BO Xilai affair is China's biggest scandal since Tiananmen Square. But our Paris-based China watcher, Frederic Langer, argues that the West cannot wash its hands of BO's judiciary troubles. Read more...
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China and Russia -- global strategic threats

Russia and China are the chief strategic threats to the moral and political commitments of liberal democracies, argues Michael Ignatieff. Read more...
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China -- rotten at the top

The revelations of the ill-gotten wealth of Wen Jiaobao's family is just the latest evidence that China is rotten at the top -- including at the top of China's new leadership. What does it mean? Read more...
Chinese Communist Party Early Leaders,wax figure

Asia's democratic future

Democracy is at the heart of development. But democracy only has very shallow roots in Asia. Democratic development lags well behind the economy. Read more...
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Social media and Japan's anti-nuclear movement

Vanessa Vyvial, currently studying at Tokyo's Sophia University, has shared with us this interesting piece on social media and Japan's anti-nuclear movement. Read more...