Editor’s Note
This issue of China Currents focuses on a broad question that has been long discussed and likely will profoundly shape the world in the coming decades: what are the implications…
China Ostrichism: Why Didn’t the World Prepare for China’s Rise?
The rise of China has been one of the clearest, most predicted, and most predictable realities in a century of international politics. Rather than the result of a sudden shift…
Challenges of China’s Rise to Become a Global Innovation Leader in the 21st Century
A brief look at the parallels, precedence, and paradoxes Between 2012 and 2018, a few colleagues and I studied next-generation innovation ecosystems globally. We observed a number of patterns and…
The Roles of Tianxia and Westphalian Sovereignty in Understanding Relations Between China and Xinjiang
The “Xinjiang question” poses one of the most controversial issues for China scholars today. A significant portion of the region’s Turkic Uyghur Muslim population claims that Xinjiang possesses a distinct…
Deja Vu: China’s Relations with the West
The early 1980s saw the first glimpses of China's domestic reforms and interactions with people and economies outside China. This loosening was dangerous territory for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP),…
Doing Business in Shanghai: An Interview with William D. Frazier
William D. Frazier’s company, Shanghai-America Direct Import & Export, is based in Shanghai (xmftrade.com). He is the author of Black American Entrepreneur in China: Connecting Industry and Cultural Differences, and…
Editor’s Note
China Currents has always been dedicated to peeling back the layers of complexity in the quest to understand contemporary China, and this issue is, in my humble opinion, a shining…
Is the World Ready for China Risen?
Every year since the death of Mao, it has become increasingly clear that China is on the rise and likely – though never certain – to emerge as a superpower.…
China’s Nina Andreeva Moment
On March 13, 1988, at the height of Gorbachev’s glasnost’ policy, an elderly teacher from Leningrad named Nina Andreeva published a letter in a conservative (i.e. anti-perestroika) Russian newspaper, defending…
Security and Economic Challenges for Taiwan in Cross-Strait Relations
The security and economic landscape in the Indo-Pacific is increasingly difficult to navigate. While trade agreements such as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, the successor to the…