Foreign Policy
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Last Updated: July 7, 2016
Features
03.08.24
Xinjiang Authorities Are Retroactively Applying Laws to Prosecute Religious Leaders as Criminals
from Foreign Policy
Sholpan Amirkhan and her aunt gasped when the guards carried her brother-in-law Nurlan Pioner into the Jimunai County People’s Court, on the border with Kazakhstan in China’s western region of Xinjiang. He was gaunt, and a fetid smell followed him...
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12.15.23
Does America Have an End Game on China?
from Foreign Policy
This fall, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan noted that the Biden administration is “often asked about the end state of U.S. competition with China.” He argued that “we do not expect a transformative end state like the one that resulted...
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07.24.23
Xi Jinping’s Three Balancing Acts
from Foreign Policy
Xi Jinping has ruled China for over a decade, but the way he rules it is changing. Xi faces domestic and international environments that are markedly worse than when he took office in 2012. The economy is struggling, confidence is faltering, debt is...
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11.03.17
The Future of Particle Physics Will Live and Die in China
from Foreign Policy
“Don’t you dare kill my project.”My phone interview with a senior official at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) had started with bland, yet polite, responses. But it took a sharp turn toward audible agitation and hostility as I raised my final...
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07.13.17
The Chinese Think Liu Xiaobo Was Asking For It
from Foreign Policy
Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and Chinese dissident writer, is dying of liver cancer. He’s been in prison since 2009, his “crime” being the publication of a charter calling for political reform. But he’s not a hero to his countrymen. Most...
Media
04.12.17
Chinese Blame America for United Airlines
from Foreign Policy
The video of David Dao being dragged kicking and screaming off a United Airlines flight by Chicago police set the American Internet aflame Monday. That’s not a surprise: Whether you blame the greed of American airlines or late capitalism, the video...
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11.09.16
Donald Trump’s Peace Through Strength Vision for the Asia-Pacific
from Foreign Policy
In 2011, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced with great fanfare in Foreign Policy that the United States would begin a military “pivot” to the Asia-Pacific. This beating of the American chest was done against the backdrop of China’s...
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11.09.16
China Just Won The U.S. Election
from Foreign Policy
The election of Donald Trump will be a disaster for anyone who cares about human rights, U.S. global leadership, and media freedom. That means it’s a victory for Beijing, where, as I write, the Chinese leaders near me in the palatial complex of...
Environment
05.19.15
Dredging For Disaster
from Foreign Policy
Tensions are rising in the South China Sea. On May 16, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Beijing for talks which will likely focus on the territorial disputes. But China’s controversial effort to assert its sovereignty in the South China...
Features
04.28.15
Where Do We Draw the Line on Balancing China?
from Foreign Policy
Is it time for the United States to get serious about balancing China? According to Robert Blackwill and Ashley Tellis, the answer is an emphatic yes. In a new Council on Foreign Relations report, they portray China as steadily seeking to increase...
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07.11.18Crisis in U.S. Nuclear Talks With Pyongyang Not China’s Doing, Experts Say
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President Donald Trump has suggested that China might be to blame for an apparent crisis in nuclear talks between the United States and North Korea — arguing that Beijing could be undermining the agreement because of anger over the escalating trade...
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05.17.18China Has Decided Russia Is Too Risky an Investment
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On May 4, the planned investment by the Chinese company CEFC China Energy into Russian state oil giant Rosneft fell apart, eight months after it was first announced.
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05.09.18How China Managed to Play Censor at a Conference on U.S. Soil
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The Beijing-backed Confucius Institute offers much-needed money to American universities — but with strings attached.
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04.19.18The Chinese Communist Party Is Setting Up Cells at Universities Across America
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It’s a strategy to tighten ideological control. And it’s happening around the world.
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03.09.18Chinese Students in America Say ‘Not My President’
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The first posters appeared on a bulletin board at University of California, San Diego on March 1.
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03.01.18A Summer Vacation in China’s Muslim Gulag
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Since announcing a “people’s war on terror” in 2014, the Chinese Communist Party has created an unprecedented network of re-education camps in the autonomous Xinjiang region that are essentially ethnic gulags.
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05.03.17How Not to Lose Asia to China
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This week, the foreign ministers of the 10 countries that make up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are coming to Washington for an annual U.S.-ASEAN dialogue.
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04.12.17China Rejects North Korean Coal Shipments after Missile Test and U.S. Pressure
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China is turning back shipments of North Korean coal from its ports, a sign of Beijing’s growing concern over the nuclear weapons capability of its wayward neighbor.
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04.06.17Trump’s Team Has No Idea What It’s Doing On China
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Donald Trump is, by his own admission, not terribly analytical or deliberative.
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03.21.17China and America Need a One-Korea Policy
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The only way to stop North Korea is by guaranteeing the peninsula will eventually be united—and non-aligned.
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03.13.17Trump’s Top China Expert Isn’t a China Expert
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Peter Navarro doesn't speak Chinese, and has scant in-country experience. Should that matter?
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02.27.17How to Persuade China to Squeeze North Korea’s Lifeline
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Beijing is reluctant to give Pyongyang a real ultimatum—but the U.S. can bring it round
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02.08.17Surprise Findings: China’s Youth Are Getting Less Nationalistic, Not More
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Harvard and Peking University researchers just upended conventional wisdom.
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01.30.17China’s Happy to Sit Out the Nuclear Arms Race
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While Putin and Trump push for bigger arsenals, Beijing has all the nukes it'll ever need.
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01.09.17China’s New Silk Road Is Getting Muddy
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With the future of U.S.-China relations an open question for the incoming Donald Trump administration, many have focused on whether the president-elect’s promise to withdraw from negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will enhance...