| Organization | Date | Title | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhodium Group | 06.11.12 |
China Invests in Europe Thilo Hanemann and Daniel H. Rosen Europe is experiencing the start of a structural surge in outbound direct investment in advanced economies by Chinese firms. The take-off was only recent: annual inflows tripled from 2006 to 2009, and tripled again by 2011 to $10 billion (€7.4 billion)... |
European Union |
| Harvard University | 06.5.12 |
How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism But Silences Collective Expression Gary King, Jennifer Pan, Margaret Roberts Contrary to previous understandings, Chinese Internet posts with negative, even vitriolic, criticism of the state, its leaders, and its policies are not more likely to be censored than posts without this content. Instead, this study shows that the... |
Censorship, Internet, Social Media, Political Mobilization |
| American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | 06.4.12 |
Asia in the Balance Thomas G. Mahnken, Thomas Donnelly, Dan Blumenthal, Gary J. Schmitt, Michael Mazza, Andrew Shearer Since the end of World War II, the United States has developed a characteristic approach to protecting its interests in Asia. In peace and in war, the U.S. position in Asia has rested on a set of alliances, ground and air forces deployed on allied and U.... |
U.S.-China Relations, Security |
| Nesta | 06.1.12 |
Crossing the River by Feeling for Stones: A New Approach to Exporting Creative Content to China? Hasan Bakhshi and Philippe Schneider We have all heard the statistics. About how China is forecast to overtake the U.S. to be the largest economy in the world by 2027. How China already has 277 million mobile web users, of which 45 percent use their handsets to access music and 21 per cent... |
British-Chinese Relations, United Kingdom, International Trade, Consumerism |
| Amnesty International | 05.23.12 | Amnesty Internation Annual Report—China Amnesty International surveys the landscape of human rights in China during 2011 and finds that China’s economic strength during the global financial crisis increased the country’s leverage in the domain of global human rights—mostly for the worse.... | Human Rights, Dissidents and Activists, Religion, Protests |
| Congressional Research Service | 05.10.12 |
Understanding China’s Political System Susan V. Lawrence, Michael F. Martin China’s Communist Party dominates state and society in China, is committed to maintaining a permanent monopoly on power, and is intolerant of those who question its right to rule. Nonetheless, analysts consider China’s political system to be neither... |
Political System, Chinese Communist Party, Governance, Government |
| World Bank | 05.3.12 |
Sustainable Low Carbon City Development in China Axel Baeumler, Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, and Shomik Mehndiratta By embarking on a low-carbon growth path, China’s cities can help reach the country’s targets for reducing the energy and carbon intensity of its economy, and become more livable, efficient, competitive, and ultimately sustainable. Cities contribute an... |
Carbon, Environmental Regulation, Greenhouse Gases, Urban Issues |
| International Monetary Fund (IMF) | 05.1.12 |
China’s Impact on World Commodity Markets Shaun K. Roache Shocks to aggregate activity in China have a significant and persistent short-run impact on the price of oil and some base metals. In contrast, shocks to apparent commodity-specific consumption (in part reflecting inventory demand) have no effect on... |
Business, Supply and Demand |
| International Monetary Fund (IMF) | 05.1.12 |
RMB Internationalization: Onshore/Offshore Links Samar Maziad, Joong Shik Kang Among emerging market currencies, the RMB holds the most potential to become widely used internationally, due to China‘s large economic size, diversified trade structure and network, macroeconomic stability, and high growth rates - both current and... |
Renminbi, Exchange Rates, Renminbi Internationalization |
| China Leadership Monitor | 04.30.12 |
China’s Assertive Behavior Michael D. Swaine This essay focuses in particular on the military’s role in leadership decision-making and lower-level implementation with regard to political-military crises with foreign powers. This is a difficult topic to tackle: very little detailed, reliable... |
Military Policy, People’s Liberation Army |