Why China Can’t Get too Angry at Burma for Dropping Bombs
on March 17, 2015
Burma remains a large importer of Chinese weapons amd China needs the country's energy and raw materials.
China-Taiwan Relations: China's Bottom Line
on March 17, 2015
Tensions will rise again if the winner of Taiwan’s next presidential election fails to back the One China notion.
South Korea Tells China Not to Meddle in Decision Over Missile System
on March 17, 2015
The United States has made it increasingly clear that it wants South Korea to install a American missile defense system.
Defying U.S., European Allies Say They’ll Join China-Led Bank
on March 17, 2015
Germany, France and Italy have agreed to join a new China-led Asian investment bank.
The Education of Detained Chinese Feminist Li Tingting
An Excerpt from “China’s Millennials: The Want Generation”
on March 16, 2015
It is probably fair to say no woman has ever taken more flak for walking into a men’s room than Li Tingting. In the run-up to Women’s Day in 2012, the feminist college student was distressed by the one-to-one ratio of public restroom facilities for males and females. She believed that women’s longer wait times necessitated legislation to enforce giving women twice as many toilets. Determined to correct the oversight, she organized demonstrations for true “toilet parity.” The “Occupy Men’s Room” movement involved...
China Becomes World’s Third-Largest Arms Exporter
on March 16, 2015
With just 5% of total exports from 2010-2014, China’s share was far less than the U.S., at 31%, or Russia, at 27%.
Stiffer Bank-Technology Rules Loom in China
on March 16, 2015
Beijing presses for secure and controllable systems; suppliers fear intrusive measures.
Was News of Xu Caihou’s Death Buried?
on March 16, 2015
China’s Army in Show of Force Along Myanmar Border After Fatal Bombing
on March 16, 2015
Tensions rising between Asian neighbors after death of five people in Yunnan.
The China Boom
on March 16, 2015
Many thought China’s rise would fundamentally remake the global order. Yet, much like other developing nations, the Chinese state now finds itself entrenched in a status quo characterized by free trade and American domination. Through a cutting-edge historical, sociological, and political analysis, Ho-fung Hung exposes the competing interests and economic realities that temper the dream of Chinese supremacy—forces that are stymieing growth throughout the global South. Hung focuses on four common misconceptions about China’s boom: that China could undermine orthodoxy by offering an alternative model of growth; that China is radically altering power relations between the East and the West; that China is capable of diminishing the global power of the United States; and that the Chinese economy would restore the world’s wealth after the 2008 financial crisis. His work reveals how much China depends on the existing order and how the interests of the Chinese elites maintain these ties. Through its perpetuation of the dollar standard and its addiction to U.S. Treasury bonds, China remains bound to the terms of its own prosperity, and its economic practices of exploiting debt bubbles are destined to fail. Dispelling many of the world’s fantasies and fears, Hung warns of a post-miracle China that will grow increasingly assertive in attitude while remaining constrained in capability. —Columbia University Press
Book Review:
Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs (January/February 2016)
Salvatore Babones, Asian Review of Books (January 26, 2016)
Publishers Weekly (November 1, 2015)
