A Flash Point in China-Africa Relations Re-Opens in Zambia

A China in Africa Podcast

By Eric Olander, Cobus van Staden & more on May 13, 2015

When critics of the Chinese in Africa make their case, the Collum coal mine in Zambia is invariably on their list of grievances. The controversial mine has been the site of violent labor disputes that have severely injured, even killed, both Zambians and Chinese. After a three-year closure, the mine re-opened in April amid concerns the labor and environmental violations that prompted its closing in 2012 remain un-resolved.

Searching for Identity in China’s Outer Lands

By Q. Sakamaki & Dave Gershgorn on May 12, 2015

“ ‘China’s Outer Lands’ is about people instinctively looking for their own identity, between conformity or originality or autonomy or dependence,” Mr. Sakamaki said. “It’s natural, it’s happening in not only China, it’s everywhere.”

Economy, Environment, History, Religion, Rural Life, Urban Life
Xinjiang, Yunnan, Liaoning, Photography, Ethnic Minorities, Uighur

Federation of American Scientists

on May 12, 2015

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The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) provides science-based analysis of and solutions to protect against catastrophic threats to national and international security. Specifically, FAS works to reduce the spread and number of nuclear weapons, prevent nuclear and radiological terrorism, promote high standards for nuclear energy’s safety and security, illuminate government secrecy practices, as well as prevent the use of biological and chemical weapons.

Share and Be Nice

By Orville Schell on May 12, 2015

Having followed the progress of the People’s Republic of China for more than half a century, it is disquieting to now find the atmosphere between Americans and Chinese so stubbornly cool. Indeed, in certain key ways there was a greater sense of optimism and trust aloft in the land during the years following President Nixon and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger’s path-breaking trip to visit Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai in 1972 than now. And the two countries were then just emerging from a long interregnum of outright hostility.

Zhu Feng

on May 12, 2015

Zhu Feng is Executive Director of the China Center for Collaborative Studies of the South China Sea and a Professor of International Relations at Nanjing University. He was formerly Deputy President of the Institute of Strategic & International Studies and a Professor in the School of International Studies at Peking University. Zhu started his current position in August 2014. He specializes in East Asian regional security, power relations and maritime security in the Asia-Pacific, and North Korea’s nuclear proliferation issue. His forthcoming book is America, China, and the Struggle for World Order: Ideas, Traditions, Historical Legacies, and Global Visions (co-edited with G. John Ikenbery and Wang Jisi, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

We Need to Stay Coolheaded

By Zhu Feng on May 12, 2015

In recent years, a noticeable change has occurred in China-U.S. relations. The “problem areas” where the two countries tend to clash are increasing in both number and scope, and there has been a greater degree of hostility in judgments about the other side’s strategic intent.

The Urgency of Continuing with Reform

By Hu Shuli

on May 12, 2015

Concern about the middle-income trap has grabbed public attention again. The minister of finance, Lou Jiwei, recently said at Tsinghua University that China had a “50-50 chance” of sliding into it in the next five to 10 years. However, many inaccurate versions of his speech are circulating on the Internet, causing widespread concern, and it is important to have a complete and accurate understanding of his views.