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Snapshot,
May 10, 2012
As popular discontent and citizen activism have spread online in recent years, they have also broadened in scope to include demands not only for political reforms, but also for official accountability on environmental crises, rampant corruption, tainted consumer products, theft of community land, dangerous workplaces, and increasing social and economic equalities.
Snapshot,
April 25, 2012
In the last few decades, China has become the world's top producer of rare earths, a group of elements key to manufacturing high-tech products. Now Beijing has started to institute price controls and export quotas to drive up prices, but that plan will likely backfire.
Snapshot,
April 18, 2012
The scandal surrounding the downfall of Chongqing party boss Bo Xilai has revealed the problems with President Hu Jintao's unrelenting emphasis on harmony among the country's top leaders. Unless things change soon China's legendary economic growth could grind to a halt.
Snapshot,
March 22, 2012
With little fanfare, Beijing has recently taken an unusually moderate approach in the seas surrounding its territory. With the friendlier policy, the country hopes to restore its tarnished image in East Asia and reduce the temptation for Washington to take a more active role there.
Snapshot,
March 14, 2012
Since the scandal four years ago over melamine-laced powdered milk that sickened thousands of children, China's food record hasn't improved. Companies have been caught making ham laced with pesticides, counterfeit alcoholic drinks, fake baby formula, adulterated pickled vegetables, and carcinogenic chili sauce. And Beijing's responses are having little impact.
Snapshot,
March 7, 2012
In recent years, Beijing had plans to balance equality with rapid economic growth. But rigid government controls over land and labor have instead exacerbated divides, and in turn, social tensions. Now a new set of leaders taking power this year will have to fight the party system. The problem is that they could lose, and set the Middle Kingdom on a path to another decade of unequal growth.
Comment,
Mar/Apr
2012
Chinese cyberattacks are stealing priceless intellectual property and crucial military secrets from companies and governments around the globe. Negotiations with Beijing are unlikely to help, since China has little interest in cracking down on hacking. So Washington must focus on defenses, not diplomacy.
Essay,
Mar/Apr
2012
Significant groups in both China and the United States claim that a contest for supremacy between the two countries is inevitable and perhaps already under way. They are wrong. Beijing and Washington may not, in the end, be able to transcend the forces pushing them toward conflict. But they owe it to themselves, and the world, to try.
Snapshot,
February 15, 2012
Before Xi's visit to the United States, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister, Cui Tiankai, bemoaned the two countries' “trust deficit” and suggested that they give full attention to fixing it. He's right about the problem, but in any relationship, trust is only built over time. It requires clarity of intention, predictability of action, and a willingness to give before taking. And all that is sorely lacking between Washington and China.
Snapshot,
February 14, 2012
The future Chinese President's feel-good trip to Iowa will underscore for viewers in the United States and China that, because of its depth and history, the two countries’ bond is valuable. Moreover, it will put a personable face on a leadership that, under Hu, has often appeared bureaucratic and removed.
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