China’s Zika Fumigation Rules Raise Worries for U.S. Exporters
on August 25, 2016
Companies worry that requirement to fumigate all containers could result in costs, delays.
Could China Now Defeat the United States in a Battle Over the South China Sea or Taiwan?
A ChinaFile Conversation
on August 25, 2016
Chinese Communist Party Secretary Xi Jinping kicked off the latest round of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) reforms at a September 3, 2015 military parade. The reforms could result in a leaner, more combat-effective PLA. This could create new operational challenges for the U.S. military in the Western Pacific, limiting U.S. ability to intervene in a crisis related to the self-governing island of Taiwan or elsewhere in the region.
Joel Wuthnow
on August 24, 2016
Joel Wuthnow is a Research Fellow in the Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs at National Defense University. He was previously a China analyst at CNA and a postdoctoral fellow in the China and the World Program at Princeton University. He received an A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, an M.Phil. in Modern Chinese Studies from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.
Phillip C. Saunders
on August 24, 2016
Phillip C. Saunders is Director of the Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs and a Distinguished Research Fellow at National Defense University’s Institute for National Strategic Studies. He previously worked at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he was Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program from 1999 to 2003, and served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force from 1989 to 1994. Saunders attended Harvard College and received his M.P.A. and Ph.D. in International Relations from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.
Dennis J. Blasko
on August 24, 2016
Dennis J. Blasko is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army. He was an army attaché in Beijing and in Hong Kong from 1992 to 1996. Blasko is the author of The Chinese Army Today: Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century, second edition (Routledge 2012).
Jean-Pierre Cabestan
on August 24, 2016
Jean-Pierre Cabestan is Professor and Head of the Department of Government and International Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is also Director General of the European Union Academic Programme in Hong Kong as well as an associate researcher at the Asia Centre, Paris and at the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China in Hong Kong. Before August 2007, he was a Senior Researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique). From 1998 to 2003, he was Director of the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (Centre d'études français sur la Chine contemporaine, CEFC) in Hong Kong and Chief Editor of the English and French editions of China Perspectives. From 1994 to 1998, he was Director of the Taipei Office of the CEFC. In 1990-1991, he was a lecturer at the Politics Department of the School of Oriental and African Studies.
Cabestan’s recent English-language publications include China and the Global Financial Crisis: A Comparison with Europe (coedited with Jean-François Di Meglio and Xavier Richet, Routledge 2012), Secessionism and Separatism in Europe and Asia: To Have a State of One’s Own (co-edited with Aleksandar Pavkovic, Routledge 2013), and Political Changes in Taiwan Under Ma Ying-jeou: Partisan Conflict, Policy Choices, External Constraints and Security Challenges (co-edited with Jacques deLisle, Routledge 2014). He has also published numerous articles and contributions in English on China’s political system and reform, Chinese law, the relations across the Taiwan Strait, and Taiwanese politics. He received his Ph.D. from the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Is Huawei Doing Enough to Train Local Staff in Africa?
A China in Africa Podcast
on August 23, 2016
The Chinese telecom giant Huawei recently launched a massive publicity campaign to raise awareness in Africa about what it is doing to train local employees. The company has opened at least five training centers in different countries across the continent and claims that it annually provides skills training to 12,000 Africans.
What’s Next for Uber and Didi in China?
on August 22, 2016
New regulations and a blockbuster merger between the industry’s largest players are reshaping the business landscape for China’s car-hailing app companies.
And the landscape is widening as car-hailing companies, including Didi Chuxing Technology Co., which merged in August with Uber Technologies Inc.’s China unit, explore financial services such as vehicle leasing and auto insurance. Future growth areas may include car dealerships.
Benjamin Tsui
on August 21, 2016
Benjamin Tsui is a second-year M.A. student in International Economics and China Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He is also an intern at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center.