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60th Anniversary Parade of the PRC - Some Afterthoughts

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China’s 60th Anniversary celebration a few weeks back was a monumental spectacle by any standard. Hundreds of thousands of troops, schoolchildren and civilians meticulously rehearsed months in advance. Jets, tanks and missile-toting trucks filed through in a show of military muscle, displaying China’s transformation from a war-battered regional player into [...]

Time For a New U.S.-China Relations Strategic Maxim?

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The George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations each produced Asia strategy reports outlining their visions and overall strategy for Asia, coalescing around a catch phrase that would guide U.S. policy. In 2005, former US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick announced his idea that China become a “responsible stakeholder”, calling for Beijing to [...]

In Defense of Obama

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President Obama’s recent trip to China was harshly criticized by the Western media as having been a “failure”. Among the criticisms: he was too deferential; he didn’t speak out enough on human rights; he failed to press Beijing firmly on revaluing its currency; he achieved no concrete results on Iran or North Korea….and the [...]

The Final Frontier? U.S.-China Space Race Heats Up

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China’s military has made dramatic progress in space over the past decade and the goals of its program remain unclear, a top US general said on Tuesday.
Citing Beijing’s advances in space, General Kevin Chilton, head of US Strategic Command, said it was crucial to cultivate US-China military relations to better understand China’s intentions.
“With regard [...]

China Cracks Down on Internet Images

It seems the Chinese authorities are ramping up their efforts to censor the Internet lately.  Last week the Ministry of Public Security posted a terse statement scolding 19 Internet companies, including Google and Baidu, for the “enormous number of vulgar, pornographic sites appearing on their sites”.  The goal, according the Ministry, is “to purify [...]

Parsing Hu Jintao’s 30th Anniversary Reform Speech

If you’re like me, you derive perverse satisfaction from reading long, cryptic speeches made by Chinese leaders at landmark events. Hu Jintao’s recent speech commemorating the 30th anniversary of the start of reform and opening in China is no exception. The event, staged with the usual fanfare and triumphalism we’ve come to expect [...]

Wen Jiabao’s Interview on CNN

I was recently turned on to a noteable event courtesy of James Fallows post a while back in which Premier Wen Jiabao agreed to an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria.  As his post points out, it is a rarity for Chinese upper echelon leaders to agree to interviews with the mainstream Western press - this [...]

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