(This article first appeared in Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF), a joint project of the International Relations Center (IRC, www.irc-online.org) and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS, www.ips-dc.org), December 21,, 2006; reprinted with permission from FPIF) The peaceful rise of…
My purpose in these short comments is to lay out one useful idea for China’s relations with each of these three big neighbors. What follows is not intended as a survey of contemporary Sino-Russian, Sino-Japanese, or Sino-Indian relations, but one…
Legislators from both sides of the Taiwan Straits normally stay in the backdrop in the cross-Straits relations. However, interestingly, in the past several months, two legislature-related events marked important turning points in the relations between Taiwan and China: Taiwan’s December…
The relations between China and Southeast Asia have experienced a great leap forward since the 1990s. Bilateral and multilateral level political and cultural exchanges have become more common, and trade volumes have increased steadily. A number of factors have contributed…
China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in December, 2001. This event—the culmination of years of difficult negotiations and compromise—was historic. China’s membership meant the largest economy outside of the international trading system was brought into a regularized process of…
One of the great challenges facing China in its drive for sustained economic growth is the question of how to integrate the assets and employees of state-owned enterprises into a liberalizing economy. The measures contained within the “Temporary Provisions on…
Less than a month after retiring, former Georgia Tech environmental scientist C.S. Kiang was named dean of the newly established College of Environmental Sciences at Peking University, one of China's most prestigious schools. He is the first foreign dean. Kiang…
On 15 July 2002 the U.S.-China Security Review Commission submitted to the U.S. Congress its first Report under legislation of October 2000. The commission was made up of twelve "commissioners," three each appointed by Senate minority leader Tom Dashle, Senate…