The Opening Stage of China

By Robert A. Scalapino on November 26, 2011

At the outset of the 1960s, the newly installed Kennedy administration attempted an opening to Beijing. In early 1961, with Secretary of State Dean Rusk in command, an offer was made to exchange journalists, as I had proposed. I had talked with Rusk in the course of drafting my report [the Conlon Report] and had sent him a personal copy upon its completion. Beijing responded by asserting that the Taiwan issue had to be “settled” first, thereby postponing any forward movement.

Occupy Sinica

By Jeremy Goldkorn & Michael Anti on November 25, 2011

Earlier this week, The New York Times published an editorial by prominent Chinese academic Yan Xuetong claiming that China would defeat the United States on the grounds of moral superiority.

Is Soft Power Always This Damn Boring?

By Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn & more on November 18, 2011

In some ways, the latest deluge of rhetoric from the Party feels timeless. Ever since Mao’s famous speech in Yan’an on literature and art in 1942, the CCP has made clear that culture ought to serve politics. But there’s also something new about the renewed focus on culture, whether in the resurgent confidence in the Party’s top ranks that digital media can be sculpted, or in the amazing willingness of the top-level elite to pour billions into expanding China’s global media presence.

Telecoms and the Huawei Conundrum

Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in the United States

By Claude Barfield on November 16, 2011

The Chinese company Huawei has emerged as the second-largest telecommunications equipment company in the world. It operates in 140 countries around the globe, providing equipment, software, and services to forty-five of the world’s fifty largest telecom operators. Despite its global success, Huawei has consistently been rebuffed in attempts to make large investments and land large contracts in the United States. U.S. government officials have intervened on a number of occasions to block potential acquisitions and equipment contracts involving Huawei, citing security concerns (though without specific details). The company has vigorously contested allegations that it has ties to the Chinese military or represents a security risk in the United States. This study traces Huawei’s corporate history, particularly its unsuccessful efforts to gain a foothold in the U.S. market. It analyzes both the economic and security challenges posed by future Chinese investment in sensitive sectors, such as information technology and the broader telecommunications supply chain. The study concludes with recommendations for action by the U.S. government, by the Chinese government, and by Huawei, to accommodate future Chinese investment and contracting in the U.S. telecommunications sector while preserving vital U.S. national security interests and priorities.

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China’s Rise Creates Clouds of U.S. Pollution

By Craig Simons on November 14, 2011

At more than 9,000 feet along the crest of Oregon’s Cascade mountain range, the top of this snow-covered peak normally enjoys some of America’s cleanest air. So when sensitive scientific instruments picked up ozone—the chief component of smog—at levels higher than downtown Los Angeles and well above health safety limits set by the Environmental Protection Agency in late April, scientists took note.

Taiwan and East Asian Regionalism

By Claude Barfield on November 10, 2011

With a population of only 23 million, Taiwan boasts a gross domestic product of $822 billion, which ranks 19th among the world’s economies. It is the fourth largest economy in Asia. Real GDP per capita increased by roughly 130 percent from 1995 when it was $15,704 to $35,604 in 2010. This makes Taiwan the 20th richest country on a per capita basis, ahead of Japan and the UK, and just behind Germany. The goal of this paper is to describe Taiwan’s place in the global economy and to analyze the impact on Taiwan’s economy of growing East Asian regional trade and investment initiatives such as the ASEAN Plus Three Agreement (APT) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP).

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The Real Deng

By Fang Lizhi on November 10, 2011

When a scientific experiment uncovers a new phenomenon, a scientist is pleased. When an experiment fails to reveal something that the scientist originally expected, that, too, counts as a result worth analyzing. A sense of the “nonappearance of the expected” was my first impression of Ezra Vogel’s Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China. The term “human rights” does not appear in its index, and it turns out that this omission was not an oversight of the indexer. Systematic nonconsideration of human rights is one of the book’s features.

My ‘Confession’

By Fang Lizhi on November 9, 2011

From reading Henry Kissinger’s new book On China,1 I have learned that Mr. Kissinger met with Deng Xiaoping at least eleven times—more than with any other Chinese leader—and that the topic of one of their chats was whether Fang Lizhi would confess and repent.

Making It Big in China

By Jonathan Mirsky on November 9, 2011

Jianying Zha describes China as “way too big a cow for anyone to tackle in full.” Therefore, Ms. Zha says, she omits “the rural life, the small-town stories, the migrants working in huge manufacturing plants…continued poverty in parts of interior rural China, surging labor unrest in coastal factories, the injustice of the legal system, rampant corruption among local officials, ethnic tension, and environmental destruction….” These urgent matters, requiring sustained attention, include most of China’s problems and people.

My First Return Trip to China

By Wei Peh T’i on November 5, 2011

Thomas Wolfe's admonition that “you can't go home again” notwithstanding, I returned to the land of my birth after an absence of 33 years. I was born in Nanjing and spent a good part of my childhood in Chongqing. In November 1937, Japanese forces were approaching Nanjing; the government decided to move to Sichuan, taking with it all the institutions of higher learning. My father was Dean of the College of Science (with chemical and electrical engineering departments which were useful to the national war efforts) at the University of Nanking.