A New Book Praises China’s Governance Model, But Overlooks Its Politics

A Review of Daniel A. Bell’s “The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy”

By Thomas Kellogg on September 21, 2015

On August 12, China once again met with man-made tragedy. Massive explosions at a chemical storage warehouse in Tianjin took the lives of 173 people and injured nearly 700, some of them seriously. The owner of the warehouse that blew up, Rui Hai International Logistics, immediately came under intense scrutiny: how could the company allow such a thing to happen?

New Chinese Book Says the U.S.-China ‘Feast on Power’ is Winding Down

By Yanmei Xie on September 21, 2015

At a time of heightened tensions between the U.S. and China, it comes as little surprise that a new and important book on the bilateral relations, published by a think tank affiliated with the Chinese Foreign Ministry, should have the foreboding title The Twilight of a Feast on Power: The U.S. “Rebalancing to the Asia-Pacific” and China’s Countermeasures. Although the book, published in July, largely tracks a familiar narrative of the irreversible decline of the U.S.