Organization | Date | Title | Keywords |
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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 ChinaHuman 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 RocksThe 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 |