China: A tough new Asia policy?
Hong Kong’s Cheng Ming magazine noted the appearance of a lengthy Dec 10, 2010 article on the on-line version of Qui Shi, an influential Chinese Communist Party monthly, the subject of which was only...
View ArticleChina’s Red revival
Over the past eighteen months, a degree of political ferment has been discernible in the ideological straight-jacket that regulates present day China. While the more extreme views – widely criticized...
View ArticleBucking Beijing: An Alternative U.S. China Policy
In contrast to its Cold War strategy of containment, Washington’s current approach to China is not the product of a deliberate planning process. It is nowhere codified in official documents. Indeed, it...
View ArticleCourts With Chinese Characteristics
Just 40 years ago, as my family and I were completing a very pleasant and productive academic year in Japan, we had our first opportunity to visit China. We had been waiting to do so for more than a...
View ArticleWhat China learned from Russia
Now that the 18th Party Congress has come to a close and China’s new leaders have taken up their posts it’s time see whether or not they have the political capital and aptitude to implement the...
View ArticleEconomic reforms with Chinese characteristics
The third plenary session of the Chinese Party Congress (CPC) Central Committee has historically been a platform for economic reform. Former Paramount Leader of China, Deng Xiaoping, instituted...
View Article19th Congress is CCP dominance on display
This is the first in a three-part series. You can read the second part here, and the third part here. Few political events this year have garnered the global press coverage or the electric...
View ArticleIndia-China: Diverging tech trajectories
India’s startups have started to hit the financial markets – in dazzling lights. After Zomato’s successful listing, Policy Bazaar and PayTM India have lined up billion-dollar Initial Public Offerings...
View ArticleA weaker, more belligerent China?
All doesn’t seem to be well with the mandate of heaven. China’s economy seems to be facing several issues with trouble in the key real estate, banking and technology industries. This could explain...
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