Lights, Camera, Pending IPOs for Filmmakers

on February 4, 2013

The cameras could be rolling soon for long-anticipated stock listings by the nation’s largest movie producer and foreign flick importer China Film Group, as well as a smaller but ambitious rival, Shanghai Film Group.

The state-owned companies’ names were added January 11 to a list of IPO applicants queuing for mandatory reviews by the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC). Each has asked CSRC for permission to trade A shares on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Defining the Chinese Dream

on February 4, 2013

A new phase of Sino-American relations is poised to begin now that Xi Jinping has been confirmed as China’s next leader and Barack Obama re-elected U.S. president.

In both countries, the debate about foreign policy options has been robust, particularly about the bilateral relationship. This is the time to reflect on the past and look ahead to the future.

Is Xi Jinping a Reformer? Wrong Question.

By Yiyi Lu on February 3, 2013

Better questions are needed in order to produce more useful analyses and forecasts of China’s political development. Such analyses should start by recognizing two facts: First, the new leadership’s various initiatives and pronouncements after taking office indicate that it fully accepts the need for change. Second to quote the American political scientist Samuel Huntington, the leadership is clearly aiming at “some change but not total change, gradual change but not convulsive change.” In short, the leadership wants controlled reform, not revolution or regime change.

Politics
Xi Jinping, Political Reform, Leadership Transition

China’s String of Fake Pearls (Blog)

By Daniel W. Drezner on February 3, 2013

For the past few years, a low level theme that occasionally pops into my news feed is the idea of greater Sino-Pakistani cooperation.  Now this has a certain amount of realpolitik sense to it.  The United States and Pakistan are not exactly on the best of terms, China is a rising power, they share a comon interest in containing India, yadda, yadda yadda.

Business, Military, Politics
Pakistan, Trade, India, Border Conflict

Rally Cry for the U.S. to Catch Up to the Chinese in Africa

A China in Africa Podcast

By Eric Olander & Cobus van Staden on February 3, 2013

In this episode of the China in Africa Podcast, hosts Eric Olander and Cobus van Staden focus on Delaware Senator Chris Coons' warning that unless the United States places a greater emphasis on Africa, it will be too late to catch up to the Chinese. The senator added that time is running out both for the U.S. government and for American businesses to get engaged in Africa, given the rapid expansion of Chinese investment across the continent. "China, which has made dramatic inroads across the continent in recent years, may undermine or even counter value-driven U.S.