U.S., China Least Concerned About Climate Change
on November 6, 2015
China and the United States are the world's biggest polluters, but their residents are among the least concerned about the harms of climate change.
The China-Russia-Mongolia Trilateral Gains Steam
on November 6, 2015
The Asian trilateral no one talks about is seeing some interesting new developments.
China's First Innovative Drug Approved NDA in the U.S.
on November 6, 2015
This is the first truly innovative drug manufactured in China that passes the audits of FDA and it is about to enter the NDA progress.
Deborah Bräutigam
on November 5, 2015
Deborah Bräutigam has been writing about the fact and fiction of China and Africa, state-building, governance, and foreign aid for more than 20 years. Her most recent book, Will Africa Feed China? (Oxford University Press, 2015), sheds light on the contrast between realities, and the conventional wisdom, on Chinese agricultural investment in Africa. She is also author of The Dragon’s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa (Oxford University Press, 2010). She blogs at China in Africa: The Real Story.
Bräutigam is currently Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy, Director of the International Development Program and founding director of the China Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. She has also held faculty appointments at American University, Columbia University, the University of Bergen, Norway, and has been a senior research fellow with the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, D.C. Bräutigam has twice won the Fulbright research award. She is also a recipient of fellowships from the Council on Foreign Relations and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Her research and work with CARI has been funded by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the U.K. Centre for Economic Policy and Research, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Economic and Social Research Council.
She has served as a consultant for Transparency International, the United Nations, the World Bank, DFID, GIZ, DANIDA, the African Development Bank, and USAID, and has provided commentary to the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, National Public Radio, Al-Jazeera, Voice of America, CCTV, and MSNBC. Her Ph.D. is from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
The China-Taiwan Summit
A ChinaFile Conversation
on November 5, 2015
This Saturday, for the first time since 1949, the leaders of China and Taiwan will meet face to face. Xi Jinping and Ma Ying-jeou will meet in Singapore, not as Presidents, but—to sidestep one of many lingering areas of conflict since the Chinese Civil War—as representatives of their respective political parties. They will address one another simply as “Mr. Ma” and “Mr. Xi.” Why is this meeting happening now? What are its effects likely to be in Taiwan and on the mainland? How is it likely to affect Taiwan’s upcoming elections? And how might it change the nature of cross-Strait relations?
All The Chairman’s Statues
on November 5, 2015
Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and the founding supremo of its People’s Republic, is not a man who has retreated from history quietly. During the last decade of his life, during the Cultural Revolution he unleashed in part to shore up his command, his presence was inescapable. His words, his actions, the objects he touched, and above all his image reached a peak of talismanic power. His face was everywhere and he loomed—literally—over town squares and public parks, in front of hospitals and above schoolyards, in concrete and stone reminders of who was boss.
With Historic Ma-Xi Summit, Chinese State Media Walks a Fine Line
on November 5, 2015
For the first time in 66 years, the president of mainland China and the president of self-governing Taiwan will meet face to face. On November 3, Zhang Zhijun, minister in charge of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, stated that China’s Xi Jinping would meet Taiwan’s Ma Ying-jeou in Singapore during Xi’s upcoming trip there.
Pierre Cardin Spring/Summer 2016 Fashion Show
on November 5, 2015
Models parade in creations from the Pierre Cardin Spring/Summer 2016 collection, beside a train bearing an image of Mao Zedong, during a fashion show at the China Railway Museum in Beijing last month.
The Problem With the China Model
on November 5, 2015
The ideological competition between democracy and authoritarianism was supposed to have died with the Cold War. But it has returned with a vengeance, powered above all by the rise of China. Now comes a book by a respected scholar that purports to explain the secrets of the China model, and to show why it works better than liberal democracy. The recently book The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy, by Daniel A.
Zhang Yimou: ‘Even Though Our Market Is Growing Fast, We’re Still Not Satisfied’
on November 4, 2015
Hollywood has Steven Spielberg and China has Zhang Yimou, the senior statesman of moviemaking in the People’s Republic. From Red Sorghum, his 1987 debut right out of the Beijing Film Academy, through Hero, which grossed more in America in 2002 than any film from China before or since ($54 million), Zhang has interpreted the dreams of his countrymen for the world. His latest film, Coming Home, currently in U.S.
