The U.S., China, and the ‘Thucydides Trap’
In his book “Destined for War: Can American and China Escape the Thucydides’s...
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LatestMinitrue: Tight Control on Xi’s “Loose Clothing” Slip at G20
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
China Offers Drought Relief Downstream
As Southeast Asian countries continue to face a severe drought amid an extreme El Niño event,...
China’s Global Ambitions, Loans and Strings Attached
At The New York Times, Clifford Krauss and Keith Bradsher look at how China’s global...
Japan and the U.S. Stay Out of AIIB; Taiwan Wants In
March 31st marked the deadline to become a founding member of the soon-to-be-established Asian...
Xi Jinping Outlines More Assertive Foreign Policy Goals
On Saturday, November 29, President Xi Jinping followed up on China’s hosting of the APEC...
Will China’s Rise Lead to War?
As the country’s new official map indicates, China’s assertion over its maritime...
Legal Pot Doesn’t Mean US Will Lose Ground to China
After popular votes late last year, Washington and Colorado are now the first two U.S. states to...
Global Times Poll Shows China’s Limited Soft Power
The AFP reports on the “China’s Global Image and International Influence in...
China’s National Rejuvenation Now 65.3% Complete
Following an update to China’s unofficial rejuvenation index, Josh Chin examines the formula...
State Media Highlights China’s Naval Prowess
A little more than a year after China’s first aircraft carrier joined the PLA’s naval...
Al Jazeera: China Rising
Al Jazeera has produced a four-part series looking at various aspects of China’s rise. Three of four episodes have been broadcast; the fourth will be shown later this month. From their introduction: In just 30 years, China...
Will the Chinese Be Supreme?
For the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson reviews three recent books, Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China’s Economic Dominance, by Arvind Subramanian; The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy, by Edward N. Luttwak and...
What to Make of China’s Military Spending?
Much attention is given to the annual announcement of China’s defense budget, which last week’s budget report indicated would grow about 11% to about US$115 billion this year, and the RAND corporation’s Scott...
U.S.-China Tensions: What Must Kerry Do?
In the latest installment of China File’s Conversations series, Elizabeth Economy, Andrew J. Nathan and Orville Schell respond to Nina Hachigian’s recommendations to new U.S. secretary of state John Kerry. In a...
New Destroyer Signals Chinese Naval Shift
For The Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report, Gabe Collins and Andrew Erickson discuss the implications of the recent launch of China’s new destroyer, called the Type 052D Luyang III-class, which may signal a...
Impressions of America From the Streets of China
At The Washington Post, U.C. Berkeley’s Center for Digital TV and The World presents a series of interviews with passers-by on America, Sino-U.S. relations, and how China’s rise will affect them. “In my...
How China Saw the Olympic Opening Ceremony
Since the opening of the Beijing Olympics four years ago—a declaration of national arrival which awed some and terrified others—the question has lingered of how London would follow it. Comparisons were inevitable, and perhaps...
