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China’s Campaign for Diplomatic Influence Gains Clout

Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal’s Yaroslav Trofimov, Drew Hinshaw, and Kate O’Keeffe published an extensive piece about China’s long effort to gain control over key bodies at the United Nations. As the...

Streaks of Red

The Economist reports on China’s increasing economic influence throughout Europe, accompanied by a graph showing that popular opinion there is not falling for China’s soft power efforts: London’s black cabs are made...

The Reality of the ‘China Fantasy’

From Foreign Policy: Is the “China Fantasy” starting to get deflated by reality? Three years ago, Jim Mann’s provocative book of that title identified the “China Fantasy” as the dogmatic belief of...

Simon Tisdall: The Chinese Behemoth Awakes

From The Guardian: China’s forceful intervention in the Greek debt crisis this week has given harassed European leaders meeting at today’s EU summit a sharp reminder of the challenges posed by Beijing’s...

David Miliband: China Ready to Join US as World Power

From the Guardian: David Miliband today described China as the 21st century’s “indispensable power” with a decisive say on the future of the global economy, climate change and world trade. The foreign secretary...

China’s New Nationalism May Require Careful Negotiation

Simon Tisdall writes in the Guardian: In official-speak, it’s about “one world, one dream”. But as the waves of patriotic pride build, next month’s Beijing Olympics are beginning to look like a globally...

A miracle and a menace – Jonathan Watts

From the Guardian: Hu Jintao is visiting London as president of a China at its most powerful for 200 years. It now needs resources to keep its factories running, its people sated. Its leaders want the economy to more than triple by 2020. For some, it is the business opportunity of a lifetime, but for […]

China: middle kingdom, world centre – Martine Bulard

From Le Monde Diplomatique: China has announced that the yuan will no longer be pegged to the dollar; greater currency flexibility will permit Beijing to use monetary policy to control its economy. And the entry of its enormous labour force into the global economy will change the world balance of trade. China wants to bypass […]

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