China is further fortifying its border with North Korea, new reports show, amid continued tensions on the peninsula and concerns over potential US military action against Pyongyang.
Sun Zhengcai rose from farming studies in Hertfordshire to Communist party elite. Many fear his downfall signals turbulent times in Beijing.
Evans Revere is the Senior Director with the Albright Stonebridge Group and a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center for East Asia Policy Studies. Revere previously served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. He won numerous awards as a U.S. diplomat and helped lead the State Department’s response to the tsunami disaster in Indonesia in 2004. He is fluent in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Despite widespread international condemnation of North Korea’s recent intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test, strategic distrust and misperceptions continue to impede deeper cooperation between the United States and China on the nuclear issue. In this podcast, Paul Haenle sat down with Evans Revere, Senior Director at Albright Stonebridge Group and former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, to discuss the recent North Korean ICBM test and how the United States and China can respond to enhance regional security.
When Zuao Ru Lin, a Beijing entrepreneur, first heard about business opportunities in eastern Iran, he was skeptical. But then he bought a map and began to envision the region without any borders, as one enormous market.
To better understand the Ministry of Public Security’s publicly-available information on Foreign NGOs’ representative offices and temporary activities, The China NGO Project has created a series of data visualizations that allow readers to explore the data in different formats and across different dimensions.
According to the Guangzhou government website, Guangzhou’s Coordinating Small Group for Foreign NGO Management Work held a training class on July 11 and 12. Participants included representatives from all of the government entities represented in the group (which were not explicitly listed in the article) as well as local public security bureau leadership.
Lyle Goldstein, an associate professor and strategic researcher at the U.S. Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute, is an expert on Chinese and Russian security strategies. He is also an insightful commentator on what is going on behind the scenes with North Korea. Soon after the North Korean test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on July 4, Kaiser and Jeremy sat down with him in New York City to discuss what strategic options remain for China and other players in the region.
There has been no shortage of headlines proclaiming China’s growing clout in a “new world order” in recent months. This speculation resurfaced after the July G-20 summit, at which the United States reconfirmed its withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, and the May 2017 summit of the Belt and Road, China’s $1 trillion global plan for infrastructure projects and trade deals connecting Africa, Asia and Europe. This project aims to span 68 countries, linking China’s people and markets to regions far beyond its borders.
