U.S.-China Relations

By Carla A. Hills, Dennis C. Blair, Frank Sampson Jannuzi on April 1, 2007

The Council on Foreign Relations established an Independent Task Force to take stock of the changes under way in China today and to evaluate what these changes mean for China and for the US-China relationship. Based on its careful assessment of the developments in the country and China’s likely future trajectory, the Task Force recommends that the United States pursue a strategy focused on the integration of China into the global community and finds that such an approach will best encourage China to act in a way consistent with US interests and international norms. The Task Force concludes with a series of recommendations aimed to reinforce recent efforts to deepen US-China cooperation. The overall message is that while the United States should not turn a blind eye to the economic, political, and security challenges posed by China’s rise and should be clear that any aggressive behavior on China’s part would be met with strong opposition, US strategy toward China must focus on creating and taking advantage of opportunities to build on common interests in the region and as regards a number of global concerns.

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He Jianan
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Politics
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International Relations
U.S.-China Relations
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Council on Foreign Relations

Will India Be a Better Strategic Partner Than China?

Gauging U.S.-Indian Strategic Cooperation

By Dan Blumenthal on March 1, 2007

The Joint Declaration signed on July 18, 2005, by President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been heralded in some quarters as the equivalent of President Richard Nixon’s opening to China. The opening to China under President Nixon and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger provides some illumination on the current attempts to negotiate a “strategic partnership” with India. In both cases, expectations ran high as to what the two countries might accomplish in a new partnership. Both “openings” also were informed by an underlying strategic logic. America must enlist allies to secure its interests and sustain the U.S.-led world order that has been the basis of global economic development and relative peace for over sixty years. And in both cases, American strategists believe that the ultimate solution lies in the eventual democratization of the regions and countries that pose overriding threats. India may prove a partner in confronting both of these challenges.

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India
Strategic Partnership
U.S.-China Relations
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American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

Internal Migrants: Discrimination and Abuse

on March 1, 2007

Numbering just two million in the 1980s China's internal migrants are now part of the largest peacetime migration in history, with some experts estimating their numbers to swell to 300 million by 2015. While they have served as laborers fueling China's economic take-off, the majority of internal migrants never gain permanent residency in urban areas. Tens of millions of migrants are denied rights to adequate health care and housing, and are excluded from the wide array of state benefits available to permanent urban residents. Internal migrants' insecure legal status, social isolation, sense of cultural inferiority and relative lack of knowledge of their rights leaves them particularly vulnerable, enabling employers to deny their rights with impunity. Amnesty International calls on the Chinese government to take immediate effective action to eliminate all forms of discrimination against internal migrants which are prohibited under international law.

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Discrimination
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Migration
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Amnesty International