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Bruce Gilley

Capsule Review
May/June
2009
Political Change in China: Comparisons With Taiwan
<p>Andrew J. Nathan</p>

The contributors to this conference volume ask not whether China will democratize but how: by following the path of peaceful transition exemplified by Taiwan or in a way that involves more turbulence?
Capsule Review
Sep/Oct
2006
Asia's Giants: Comparing China and India
Lucian W. Pye
Response
Jan/Feb
2006
One Country, Two Prisms
Robert Lawrence Kuhn and Bruce Gilley
Review Essay
Sep/Oct
2005
In China's Own Eyes
Bruce Gilley

The Man Who Changed China, a state-sanctioned portrait of Jiang Zemin, reflects the image that China's new leaders want their people to see: pragmatic, moderate, and above politics. The vision, however, does not often match reality.
Capsule Review
Jan/Feb
2003
China's New Rulers: The Secret Files
Lucian W. Pye
Review Essay
Jan/Feb
1999
Eye of the Tiger: What Jiang Zemin Tells Us About China
Seth Faison

Bruce Gilley's Tiger on the Brink offers some good insights into Jiang Zemin but leaves too many questions unanswered to present a full portrait of China's president.
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In the Magazine

November/December 2009, 6, 88
Essay
The Dollar and the Deficits
C. Fred Bergsten

The global economic crisis has revealed the folly of large U.S. budget and trade deficits, as well as of the strong dollar that makes them possible. If it is serious about recovery, the United States must balance the budget, stimulate private saving, and embrace a declining dollar.
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