Home › Books & Reviews › Capsule Reviews › Asia-Pacific Report 1989. Focus: China In The Reform Era

Asia-Pacific Report 1989. Focus: China In The Reform Era

Edited by Charles E. Morrison and Robert F. Dernberger
Reviewed by By Donald S. Zagoria
Fall 1989
Print Email
Login or Register to leave a comment.

Sign-up for free weekly updates from ForeignAffairs.com.
Edited by Charles E. Morrison and Robert F. Dernberger
East-West Center
1989
125 pp.
$15.00

This is the third in the East-West Center's valuable overview of major political and economic issues in the Asia-Pacific region. The report begins with an incisive discussion by Charles Morrison of the trends toward political liberalization in the region and the improving prospects for maintaining peace. Morrison also has an excellent chapter on the main trends in the regional economy. There is a separate section of eight chapters on China's economic and political reform, all contributed by prominent specialists but written before the recent upheaval in China.

Related

Snapshot, September 28, 2010
China's Innovation Wall
Adam Segal

In a bid to end its dependence on foreign intellectual property and become a global power in science and technology, China is attempting to foster indigenous innovation. Are the U.S. government and business community right to be worried about threats to free trade and intellectual property rights?

Read
Essay, Sep/Oct 2002
China's Governance Crisis
Minxin Pei

Predicting the outcome of China's upcoming leadership succession has become a popular parlor game in certain Washington circles. But a focus on power plays in Beijing misses the real story: China is facing a hidden crisis of governance. Whoever they are, the new leaders will have to deal with a failing state, an ailing party apparatus, and rising social tensions if they wish to sustain China's economic growth.

Read
Essay, Sep/Oct 2005
China's Global Hunt for Energy
David Zweig and Bi Jianhai

Chinese foreign policy is now driven by China's unprecendented need for resources. In exchange for access to oil and other raw materials to fuel its booming economy, Beijing has boosted its bilateral relations with resource-rich states, sometimes striking deals with rogue governments or treading on U.S. turf. Beijing's hunger may worry some in Washington, but it also creates new grounds for cooperation.

Read