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The 'China Honeymoon' is Over
For Europe, the "China honeymoon" is over. As the 10th European Union-China summit meeting convenes in Beijing this week, and after 15 years of rapidly and dramatically developing ties, there are...
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China’s Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation
Event Information April 15, 20082:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDTSaul/Zilkha RoomThe Brookings Institution1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20036 Register for the EventOn April 15, the Brookings...
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China's Competing Nationalisms
Which of the competing Chinese nationalisms will show up at the Olympics in August? An aggrieved, defensive nationalism, or a confident and proud nationalism? Chinese society embodies both types,...
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Soft Power in East Asia
Event Information June 17, 200812:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDTThe Root RoomCarnegie Endowment for International Peace1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NWWashington, DC On June 17, the Center for Northeast Asian...
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China’s New Foray into Latin America
History might mark the November 15 meeting of Group of 20 nations in Washington as formal anointment of China as a major world economic power. On the heel of the historic meeting, Chinese President Hu...
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China and the U.S.: A Marriage of Convenience
Jan. 1 marked the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the People's Republic of China and the United States. While President Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong opened the...
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Asia Still Likes America
As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tours East Asia this week, her first official trip as secretary of state, she may find something surprising: respect for the United States remains strong. Unlike...
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Early Prospects of the Obama Administration’s Strategic Agenda with China
The Obama administration has the good fortune to inherit a generally sound Sino-American relationship—and it has moved quickly to reach out to Beijing and push the relationship forward. Presidents...
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China and Russia: When Giants Meet
Chinese President Hu Jintao’s official visit to Russia heralds the significant strides the neighboring giants have made in bilateral relations since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Yet my...
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China on the Road to Prosperity
Sixty years ago Mao Zedong stood before a sea of people atop Tiananmen Gate proclaiming, in his high-pitched Hunan dialect, the founding of the People's Republic of China and that the "Chinese people...
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Is China Ready To Be A Global Power?
Taoguang yanghui, yousuo zuowei: "Bide time, conceal capabilities, but do some things." Is Deng Xiaoping's axiom still appropriate to be one of the overarching strategic principles guiding China's...
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The China Awaiting President Obama
As President Obama prepares for his first personal and presidential visit to the People’s Republic of China, expectations are high concerning the U.S.-China relationship.What kind of China will...
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The Year China Showed its Claws
In recent months Beijing has been cracking down at home and lashing out abroad. China watchers are perplexed about the origins and implications of the new assertiveness. Many believe a threshold has...
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China Flexes Its Soft Power
China’s new public diplomacy is ramping up to complement its traditional diplomacy. Chinese leaders are traversing the globe and receiving foreign leaders at home, but less noticed has been the blitz...
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Stabilizing Unstable U.S.-China Relations? Prospects for the Hu Jintao Visit
What a difference a year makes. In November 2009 President Obama paid a state visit to China, which will be reciprocated on January 19, 2011 with a visit to the White House by Hu Jintao—China’s...
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Of U.S.-China Summits, Past and Present
One way to judge the prospects of President Hu Jintao’s state visit to the United States this week is to place it in the context of previous China-U.S. summit meetings.The first might be termed “world...
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U.S.-Chinese Relations Take a New Direction?
The world is safer this week than last week. The Sino-American summit between presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao succeeded in stabilizing the world’s most important relationship. After more than a...
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Coping with a Conflicted China
INTRODUCTION2009 and 2010 will be remembered as the years in which China became difficult for the world to deal with, as Beijing exhibited increasingly tough and truculent behavior toward many of its...
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China's Communist Party at 90
Nationwide ceremonies and a deluge of media coverage have been mobilized by China’s ruling Communist Party to mark its 90th anniversary today. But all the hoopla cannot conceal the party’s insecure...
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Ten Questions for Xi Jinping, China’s Heir Presumptive
The visit by China’s vice president, Xi Jinping, to Washington this coming week offers a unique opportunity to take the measure of the man who will lead China for the next decade.While Xi has traveled...
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