Improvement of China-Japan Security Relations Depends on Their Interaction

Zhang Tuoshan revisits the Diaoyu Island confrontation, illustrating the situations that could have escalated conflict between China and Japan. Two years after the zenith of tension, the APEC conference in Beijing presents an opportunity for bilateral relations to move forward if a common understanding of history and sovereignty is reached.



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China’s next GDP goal: trash the target

China’s days of picking a number for GDP growth and moulding the economy to fit are probably over. At the same time, its planners still seem wedded to symbolic statistical goals. Targeting a range for national output, rather than any single figure, would be an elegant way to square the […]



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The Doomed Dragon: Is China’s Economy Headed for a Crash Landing?

“Eye-popping.” That’s how David Dollar of the Brookings Institution described a recent Conference Board report predicting the Chinese economy would grow at only 3.9 percent between 2020 and 2025. Also stunning is the forecast of former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. Summers and co-author Lant Pritchett, both at Harvard, coincidentally believe […]



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The New Silk Road: China’s Marshall Plan?

In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled plans for two massive trade and infrastructure networks connecting East Asia with Europe: the New Silk Road (also known as the Silk Road Economic Belt) and the Maritime Silk Road. A little over a year later, these initiatives are rapidly becoming reality as […]



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Governing the Country in Accordance with Law, Fairness and Justice

The recently concluded CPC plenum will prove to be of far-reaching strategic significance for building a socialist political civilization, developing democratic politics with Chinese characteristics, and realizing the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, writes Yu Keping.



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What to Expect from President Obama’s Forthcoming Visit to China

During the upcoming APEC Summit in Beijing, President Xi Jinping and President Obama will touch upon a wide range of issues, global and bilateral. Here, Wu Jianmin lays out suggestions for what the two Presidents should cover.



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Taiwan, China and the TPP

The web of overlapping free trade agreements in the Asian Pacific have largely excluded Taiwan, and the U.S.-backed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) may be an option for inclusion. Taiwan’s unique position as an independent, export economy while still reliant on Mainland China, could actually be mutually beneficial for the region.



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