Viewpoint
09.24.17
China, Global Peacemaker?
In May, Chinese President Xi Jinping gave opening remarks to a two-day international forum designed to demystify and attract support for...
Media
09.18.17
Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century
The following is an edited transcript of a live event hosted at Asia Society in New York on September 7, 2017, and named for a new book by Richard McGregor, the former Beijing Bureau Chief of the Financial Times, “ChinaFile Presents...
China in the World Podcast
03.26.17
Trump’s First Test in Asia
from Carnegie ChinaWhile President Trump appoints new officials to his administration and reviews policy frameworks, Asia-Pacific leaders are moving ahead. Since taking office, Trump has grappled with consequential developments in the region,...
China in the World Podcast
11.16.16
Electing Donald Trump: The View from China
from Carnegie ChinaDonald Trump’s election in the 2016 U.S. presidential race ushers in a period of considerable uncertainty in regard to the future of U.S. policies in the Asia-Pacific and vis-à-vis its relationship with China. In this podcast,...
Viewpoint
11.09.16
Donald Trump’s Peace Through Strength Vision for the Asia-Pacific
from Foreign PolicyIn 2011, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced with great fanfare in Foreign Policy that the United States...
China in the World Podcast
07.19.16
Interpreting the South China Sea Tribunal Ruling
from Carnegie ChinaInternational responses to the tribunal’s ruling in the South China Sea have raised questions about the stability of the Asia-Pacific region and what roles the United States and China have in it. In this podcast, Paul Haenle and...
Viewpoint
07.07.16
The South China Sea Needs ASEAN More Than Ever
A ruling from The Hague next week on maritime disputes in the South China Sea is likely to...
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...
China to Boost Textile Industry in Xinjiang
China's cabinet issued a guideline on Thursday to bolster the textile and garment industry in the western Xinjiang region in the hope of increasing local employment and exports.
China’s Assertive Behavior
China Leadership Monitor
The authors of this essay examine Chinese assertiveness concerning U.S. political and military behavior along China’s maritime periphery. This topic inevitably also concerns Chinese behavior toward Japan, South Korea, and some ASEAN nations,...
Managing Instability on China’s Periphery
Council on Foreign Relations
China’s growing global engagement and presence has increased the number of conceivable places and issues over which it could find itself at odds with the United States, but potential developments in the territories immediately adjacent to China...
Asian Alliances in the 21st Century
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Asia will become the epicenter of geopolitical activity in the 21st century and the budding U.S.-China security rivalry, conditioned by deep economic interdependence, will shape the region’s future. Perhaps the greatest benefactor of American...
The China-Taiwan Military Balance
Cato Institute
China’s economy is four times the size of Taiwan’s and apparently growing at a faster rate; that economic disparity between China and Taiwan could eventually lead to a military disparity as well. Nonetheless, even an informal U.S. security...
Is Chinese Military Modernization a Threat to the United States?
Cato Institute
Both the Pentagon and a congressionally mandated commission recently issued studies on the Chinese military that overstated the threat to the United States posed by that force. In contrast, this paper attempts to place the modernizing Chinese...