Thomas Carothers compares the situation in Burma to other transitions away from authoritarian rule, highlighting major challenges but also reasons for hope.
Vikram Nehru analyzes Southeast Asia’s tumultuous year ahead as it faces economic uncertainty, tension in Malaysia, Thailand, and the South China Sea, and positive developments in Myanmar.
Douglas Paal argues that U.S. negotiators will need a firm hand to resist provocation from North Korea and bring its new leaders to the negotiating table, enabling the denuclearization process to continue.
Tempting as it may be, monetary easing would reverse China's fragile gains in rebalancing its economy toward a consumption oriented growth model, Michael Pettis argues.
President Ma faces a full agenda as he prepares to launch his second four-year term on May 20, with high costs of housing and education, stagnant incomes, and changing lifestyles threatening Taiwan's economic growth, writes Douglas Paal.
China and the world's largest carbon emitters--not U.N. summits--will determine the nature of the climate challenge in the years ahead, argues Kevin Tu and David Livingston.
A gradual democratic transition in China would promote a more peaceful Chinese national security policy by enabling greater checks and balances, stronger civil society, and improved civil-military relations, according to Minxin Pei.
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From 2006 to 2009, the China Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace conducted a series of debates on the most critical—and controversial—issues involving China’s economic, political-social, and military evolution and their policy implications. The main purpose of the debates is to provide fresh thinking based on systematic, well informed deliberation of the main issues.
• Debate 1: The Sustainability of the Chinese Communist Party
• Debate 2: China's Economy
• Debate 3: China's Military Modernization
• Debate 4: Human Rights in China
• Debate 5: China's Role in Asia
• Debate 6: China's Trade Policy
• Debate 7: China as a Responsible Stakeholder
• Debate 8: U.S. Policy Toward Taiwan, Time for Change?
• Debate 9: Does China's Financial Sector Jeopardize Economic Growth?
Mitt Romney's tough talk on China conceals some assumptions that, if translated into policy, could set the two great powers on a collision course.
No country generates as many different economic forecasts and interpretations than China. Some analysts claim that China is an unstoppable economic power, while others warn that China’s economic growth is unstable, unbalanced, and unsustainable.
This Chinese-language monthly offers objective and original policy analysis on China for American and Chinese researchers and policymakers.
This quarterly online publication, launched by the Carnegie Endowment and partner Robert Keatley, features articles on political, economic, and social issues relating to Hong Kong.
No one is fully knowledgeable about the state of the Syrian economy, how exactly it has been affected by the events taking place in the country, or how to interpret the choice economic indicators issued by Syrian officials.
The U.S. pivot to the Asia-Pacific has created both tension and opportunity in its relations with China.
The best hope for reconciliation and democracy promotion in the Arab world comes from a focus on economic reform and other concrete issues.
The Islamists’ defeat in Algeria’s recent parliamentary elections is a product of the pragmatism of the ruling Algerian elite and shows that the regime is sensitive to society’s demands. The results are likely an exception to the trend of rising Islamist influence in the Arab world.
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