05.02.17
German Political Foundations May Be Able to Register as NGOs in China
According to German media reports, China’s Ministry of Public Security has determined that five of Germany’s political foundations—Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Hanns Seidel Foundation, and Rosa...
Books
04.25.17
China’s Hegemony
Many have viewed the tribute system as China’s tool for projecting its power and influence in East Asia, treating other actors as passive recipients of Chinese domination. China's Hegemony sheds new light on this system and shows that the international order of Asia’s past was not as Sinocentric as conventional wisdom suggests. Instead, throughout the early modern period, Chinese hegemony was accepted, defied, and challenged by its East Asian neighbors at different times, depending on these leaders’ strategies for legitimacy among their populations.
China Law Translate (Chinese)
A website that houses the original Chinese text of laws and regulations and crowd-sources unofficial English translations.
The China Africa Project
04.14.17
China Conducts Foreign Policy in Africa without Judgment
In this edition of the China in Africa podcast, we pull the focus back to look at China’s rapidly evolving foreign policy agenda in this new era of Western populism led by Donald Trump in the United States.
François...
Foreign NGO Management Law Legal Services Lawyers’ Group (境外NGO管理法法律服务律师团)
Contact information (in Chinese) for the Foreign NGO Management Law Legal Services Lawyers’ Group, which provides legal consultation and proxy services to foreign NGOs and individuals.
ChinaSource
A resource and support organization for and about the Christian community in China that offers consulting services related to the Foreign NGO Law.
The FNGO Registration Support Program
Contact information for the Foreign NGO Registration Support Program, run by the the Center for Charity Law under the Beijing Normal University China Philanthropy Research Institute (CPRI).
Anthony Spires’ Blog
A blog run by Anthony Spires, Ph.D., that includes the results of survey work done by foreign NGOs in China. Spires is Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a research fellow with the School of...
China Law Translate
A website that houses the original Chinese text of laws and regulations and crowd-sources unofficial English translations.
Council on Foundations
A detailed outline of the laws and regulations pertaining to social organizations in China, produced by a non-profit leadership association of grantmaking foundations and corporations.
NGOs in China blog
A blog about developments in the nongovernmental, non-profit, and charitable sector in China. Run by Shawn Shieh, Ph.D., Deputy Director of the China Labor Bulletin, founder and former Director of English-language operations for China Development...
International Center for Not-for-Profit Law
A comprehensive discussion of the Foreign NGO Law, including related laws and international comparisons, maintained by a U.S.-based non-profit that monitors global legal developments affecting civil society, philanthropy, and public participation...
China Development Brief
A website that provides news and translations related to non-profit work in China, including the Foreign NGO Law.
The China Africa Project
12.25.16
China’s Risky Power Play in the Arab World
International Relations Professor Zaynab El Bernoussi from Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, joins Eric and Cobus this week to discuss her recent column on China’s growing influence in the Middle East and North Africa....
Conversation
09.01.16
What Can We Expect from China at the G20?
On September 4-5, heads of the world’s major economies will meet in the southeastern city of Hangzhou for the G20 summit. The meeting represents “the most significant gathering of world leaders in China’s history,” according to The New York Times...
China in the World Podcast
05.31.16
View from Moscow: China’s Westward March
from Carnegie ChinaChina and Russia are solidifying their bilateral relationship as the former looks westward and the latter turns to its east borders. In this podcast with Paul Haenle, Dmitri Trenin discusses the conditions that are leading to stronger China-...
Conversation
05.05.16
How Should Global Stakeholders Respond to China’s New NGO Management Law?
A new law gives broad powers to China’s police in regulating and surveilling the activities of foreign NGOs in China. The law would require foreign groups including foundations, charities, advocacy organizations, and academic exchange programs to...
China Signals no South China Sea Backdown as Foreign Minister Goes to U.S.
Beijing has rattled nerves with construction and reclamation activities on the islands it occupies.
Xi Jinping on the Global Stage
Council on Foreign Relations
Xi Jinping is the most powerful Chinese leader since Deng Xiaoping, and with his sweeping actions and ambitious directives he has fundamentally altered the process by which China’s domestic and foreign policy is formulated and implemented. Xi’s...
Viewpoint
01.08.16
The Storm Beneath the Calm: China’s Regional Relations in 2016
On the surface, 2015 came to a close in a moment of relative tranquility after a turbulent year for China’s neighborhood. But the calm is misleading: the optics of regional diplomacy have become increasingly detached from the...
Leaders of Taiwan and China Hold Historic Meeting
It was a brief encounter—an hour of discussions followed by a low-key dinner—but one of great historical resonance.
The World — Including China — Is Unprepared for the Rise of China
For the first time in centuries, China affects the global economy as much as it is affected by the global economy
Features
09.14.15
Sino-Russian Trade After a Year of Sanctions
from Carnegie Moscow CenterAfter a year of intense flirtation, the Sino-Russian relationship is beginning to look like a one-sided love affair. Indeed, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to China last week—his first since the United States and...
The China Africa Project
08.04.15
U.S. Not Concerned About Chinese Competition in Africa ... But It Probably Should Be
The difference between U.S. and Chinese foreign policies in Africa was on stark display in July when president Barack Obama made his landmark visits to Kenya and Ethiopia. The president brought along with him a vast agenda that transcended trade...
Two Way Street
08.01.15
China’s Foreign Policy Isn’t Transparent? You’ve Got to Be Kidding
from Two Way StreetIn her recent article, “What China’s Lack of Transparency Means for U.S. Policy,” U.S.-China relations expert Susan Shirk caused a stir when she argued that China’s “lack of transparency” around public policy making, defense, national security,...
The NYRB China Archive
06.25.15
A Partnership with China to Avoid World War
from New York Review of BooksInternational cooperation is in decline both in the political and financial spheres. The U.N. has failed to address any of the major conflicts since the end of the cold war; the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference left a...
Environment
05.19.15
Dredging For Disaster
from Foreign PolicyTensions are rising in the South China Sea. On May 16, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Beijing for talks which...
Media
05.11.15
Interactive Map: Follow the Roads, Railways, and Pipelines on China’s New Silk Road
Foreign Policy has put together an interactive guide tracking Beijing’s victories and obstacles along the new Silk Road. The list of participating countries is still not finalized, but with China forking out billions in trade deals and...
Sinica Podcast
05.04.15
The Furor and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
from Sinica PodcastA total of 57 countries have now joined the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, China’s newly-launched competitor to the Asian Development Bank (AIIB) that has sparked a flurry of objections from the United States, even culminating in a failed...
Features
04.28.15
Where Do We Draw the Line on Balancing China?
from Foreign PolicyIs it time for the United States to get serious about balancing China? According to Robert Blackwill and Ashley Tellis, the answer is an emphatic yes. In a new Council on Foreign Relations report, they...
U.S.-China 21: The Future of U.S.-China Relations Under Xi Jinping
Harvard University
We are, therefore, seeing the emergence of an asymmetric world in which the fulcrums of economic and military power are no longer co-located, but, in fact, are beginning to diverge significantly. Political power, through the agency of foreign...
Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China
Council on Foreign Relations
China represents and will remain the most significant competitor to the United States for decades to come. As such, the need for a more coherent U.S. response to increasing Chinese power is long overdue. Because the American effort to “integrate...
Navigating Choppy Waters
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
China faces increasing economic headwinds that call into question not only its near-term growth outlook but the longer-term sustainability of its economic success. At a time of leadership transition in Beijing, global markets and policymakers...