Organization Date Title Keywords
Congressional Research Service 11.16.09 The Rise of China’s Auto Industry and Its Impact on the U.S. Motor Vehicle Industry
Rachel Tang
The automobile industry, a key sector in China’s industrialization and modernization efforts, has been developing rapidly since the 1990s. In recent years, China has become the world’s fastest growing automotive producer. Annual vehicle output has... 		Trade, Automobiles, Foreign Direct Investment
International Crisis Group 11.2.09 Shades of Red: China’s Debate Over North Korea
North Korea has created a number of foreign policy dilemmas for China. The latest round of provocations makes Beijing’s balancing act between supporting a traditional ally and responding to its dangerous brinkmanship more difficult, especially when... 		China-North Korea Relations, Foreign Policy, Foreign Relations, North Korea
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 11.1.09 Macroeconomic Implications for Hong Kong SAR of Accommodative U.S. Monetary Policy
Papa N'Diaye
This paper discusses the potential macroeconomic implications for Hong Kong SAR of accommodative monetary policy in the United States. It shows, through model simulations, that a resumption of the credit channel in Hong Kong SAR has the potential to... 		Inflation, Monetary Policy
Human Rights Watch 11.1.09 “An Alleyway in Hell”: China’s Abusive “Black Jails’
Since 2003, large numbers of Chinese citizens have been held incommunicado for days or months in secret, unlawful detention facilities. These "black jails" are housed in state-owned hostels, hotels, nursing homes, and psychiatric hospitals, among other... 		Human Rights, Petitioners
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 11.1.09 Governance and Fund Management in the Chinese Pension System
Gregoro Impavido, Yu-Wei Hu, and Xiaohong Li
The Chinese pension system is highly fragmented and decentralized, with governance standards, pension fund management practices, their regulation and supervision varying considerably both across the funded components of the Chinese pension system and... 		Governance, Pensions
Asia Society 11.1.09 A Roadmap for U.S.-China Collaboration on Carbon Capture and Sequestration
The United States and China are the world's largest greenhouse gas emitters. Collaboration between the two nations, therefore, offers the greatest opportunity for achieving meaningful reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions. The time is ripe for... 		Carbon, U.S.-China Relations, Environmental Regulation
Natural Resources Defense Council 10.1.09 Identifying Near-Term Opportunities for Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) in China
Jingjing Qian, George Peridas, Jason Chen, and Yueming Qiu
To avoid the worst consequences of global warming, the world must limit average temperature increases by significantly reducing carbon emissions by 2050. Achieving the urgently needed emission reductions will require efforts beyond first-resort measures... 		Environment, Pollution
Human Rights Watch 10.1.09 “We Are Afraid to Even Look for Them”: Enforced Disappearances in the Wake of Xinjiang’s Protests
In the aftermath of the July 2009 protests in Xinjiang province, which according to the Chinese government killed at least 197 people, Chinese security forces detained hundreds of people on suspicion of participating in the unrest. Dozens of these... 		Detention, Protests, Xinjiang
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 09.1.09 What’s the Damage? Medium-term Output Dynamics After Banking Crises
Abdul Abiad, Ravi Balakrishnan, Petya Koeva Brooks, Daniel Leigh, and Irina Tytell
This paper investigates the medium-term behavior of output following banking crises, and its association with pre- and post-crisis conditions and policies. The authors find that output tends to be depressed substantially following banking crises, with no... 		Economic Policy, Output Growth
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 09.1.09 What Drives China's Interbank Market?
Nathan Porter and TengTeng Xu
Interest rates in China comprise a mix of both market determined interest rates (interbank rates and bond yields), and regulated interest rates (lending and deposit rates), reflecting China's gradual process of interest rate liberalization. We argue,... 		Banking, Economic Reform, Interest Rates