It appears that former Washington governor Gary Locke will be the new US ambassador to China. This makes so much more sense than Jon Huntsman. See also Thomas Barnett on 10 reasons the US is eager to demonize China.
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This is quite interesting, questioning the argument that factionalism among Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution reflected different class or ideological backgrounds: The work teams that were sent into Beijing's.
JW Mason makes the point that rising Chinese wages are bad for Western capital heavily invested in China. I would extend this a bit by noting that the heavy Western.
My latest at WPR discusses the potential and the pitfalls of a grand Asian anti-China entente: Moreover, the United States may find its position as the cartilage of a Japan-India-U.S. relationship uncomfortable. Both India and Japan have intrinsic, direct disputes with China, while U.S. concerns...
My latest column at WPR involves Wikileaks and North Korea: Of course, the collapse of North Korea would require intense negotiations between all of the major regional actors, including Japan,.
As has been noted in several places, this is one hell of an interesting cable. The upshot is that South Korean officials seem to believe that North Korea will collapse.
This is mildly alarming: North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire on Tuesday after dozens of shells fired from the North struck a South Korean island near the countries’ disputed maritime border, South Korean military officials said. Two South Korean soldiers were killed, 15 were...
At WPR, I bloviate on theoretical and empirical issues regarding China's fractured foreign policy: What does China want? Unfortunately, this is a terrible way to approach the problem. China is.
In light of growing disquiet about Chinese intentions and capabilities in the Pacific among US security types, it's worth taking note of this fairly alarmist Russian analysis: This brings [Aleksandr] Khramchikhin back.
I don't care for this Chinese tendency to change leadership every few years. Makes it so hard to get a good, personality-driven hate on; just when you can finally remember who Hu Jintao is, they bring in some new guy. And all of these guys...
The only modification that I'd make to this argument is that the responsibility does not wholly lie with Mao Zedong. The Great Leap Forward had the early support of a.
I wonder what Yasheng Huang would think of this argument... During its decades of rapid growth, China thrived by allowing once-suppressed private entrepreneurs to prosper, often at the expense of.