Organization Date Title Keywords
Council on Foreign Relations 06.1.13 Defending an Open, Global, Secure, and Resilient Internet
John D. Negroponte, Samuel J. Palmisano, Adam Segal
The Task Force recognizes that there are both considerable opportunities and perilous challenges in cyberspace. This report identifies guiding principles and makes policy recommendations to mobilize a coalition of old friends and rising cyber powers,...
Internet, Cybersecurity, Intellectual Property
World Bank 06.1.13 Inequality in China
John Knight
This paper provides an overview of research on income inequality in China over the period of economic reform. It presents the results of two main sources of evidence on income inequality and, assisted by various decompositions, explains the reasons...
Income Disparity, Economic Development, Economy
Human Rights Watch 05.14.13 “Swept Away”: Abuses Against Sex Workers in China
Human Rights Watch believes the Chinese government should take immediate steps to protect the human rights of all people who engage in sex work. It should repeal the host of laws and regulations that are repressive and misused by the police, and end the...
Prostitution, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, HIV/AIDS, Sexual Assault
United States of America Department of Defense 05.6.13 Annual Report to Congress: Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2013
Office of the Secretary of Defense
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) continues to pursue a long-term, comprehensive military modernization program designed to improve the capacity of its armed forces to fight and win short-duration, high-intensity regional military conflict. Preparing...
Security, U.S.-China Relations, International Relations
PEN International 05.3.13 The PEN Report: Creativity and Constraint in Today’s China
Sarah Hoffman and Larry Siems
The report which follows measures the conditions for freedom of expression through literature, linguistic rights, Internet freedom and legal obligations. This is an approach anchored both in the breadth of history and in today’s realities, one that...
Internet Censorship, Freedom of Expression
World Bank 05.1.13 A Changing China: Implications for Developing Countries
Philip Schellekens
Three decades of rapid growth and structural change have transformed China into an upper-middle-income country and global economic powerhouse. China's transformations over this period wielded increasing influence over the development path of other...
Economic Development, Economic Growth
Asia Society 04.9.13 Toward a New Phase of U.S.-China Museum Collaborations
Melissa Chiu and Orville Schell
The 2012 U.S.-China Museum Directors Forum, organized by Asia Society and the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, brought together 17 Chinese and 15 American museum leaders for a two-day dialogue to assess common needs and...
Museums, U.S.-China Relations
International Crisis Group 04.8.13 Dangerous Waters: China-Japan Relations on the Rocks
The world’s second and third largest economies are engaged in a standoff over the sovereignty of five islets and three rocks in the East China Sea, known as the Diaoyu in Chinese and the Senkaku in Japanese. Tensions erupted in September 2012 when Japan...
China-Japan Relations, Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands
Council on Foreign Relations 04.1.13 Enter the Dragon and the Elephant
Yanzhong Huang
Among the emerging powers, China and India have long been critical to successfully addressing global health problems. Historically, infectious diseases that originated in either country have altered epidemiological patterns worldwide. The first known...
Health, Foreign Aid, Public Health
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 03.29.13 China’s Path to Consumer-Based Growth
Il Houng Lee, Murtaza Syed, Liu Xueyan
This paper proposes a possible framework for identifying excessive investment. Based on this method, it finds evidence that some types of investment are becoming excessive in China, particularly in inland provinces. In these regions, private consumption...
Investment, Consumption, Economic Growth