China’s Dirty Clean-Up

By Sophia Woodman on May 11, 2000

Every year, millions of China’s poorest and most vulnerable people are arrested on the streets of the nation’s cities merely because the way they look or speak identifies them clearly as “outsiders,” not native to the city in question, or because they are mentally ill or homeless.

Sustainable Development and the Open-Door Policy in China

By James K. Galbraith and Jaiqing Lu on May 1, 2000

This paper argues that political discourse in China reflects the larger intellectual conflicts familiar in the West. Most decisions of policy are rooted in conditions and struggles inside China, and reflect both continuity and change in internal institutions of very long standing, rather than the importation of models from the outside.

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He Jianan
Topics: 
Politics
Organization: 
Council on Foreign Relations