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Is China Ripe for a Revolution? - Stephen Platt, New York Times

ONE HUNDRED years ago, on Feb. 12, 1912, the 6-year-old child emperor of the Qing Dynasty abdicated, ending more than 2,000 years of imperial rule in China. But this watershed mome...

The Great Call of China - Paul Wells, Maclean's

TV reporters travelling with Stephen Harper to China this week are desperate for some colour to go with all the talk of pipelines. The Prime Minister’s Ofﬁce, more adept at ser...

Who Is China's Xi Jinping? - Mike Green, Shadow Government

Next week Xi Jinping, China's Vice President and the heir-apparent to President Hu Jintao, will make his much anticipated debut in Washington. The playbook for Xi's visit will be t...

Harper's Brisk Business in China - Edmonton Journal

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's quick trip to China draws top marks for timing and substance....

China's Global Soft Power Push - Frank Ching, Yale Global

China is spending billions to extend its reach to all corners of the world, primarily through the state-controlled Xinhua news agency - and its CNC World television news network ...

A Familiar Cold War in the Middle East - Patrick Seale, Gulf News

With their vetoes, Russia and China are saying they too have interests in the Middle East, which they are bent on protecting....

China's Angry Bulls - Zhang Lijia, The Diplomat

As China's rural and migrant workers become more educated and well-travelled they are growing increasingly aware of their rights. And increasingly willing to stand up for them....

We're All State Capitalists Now - Niall Ferguson, Foreign Policy

The debate about whether America or China will ultimately triumph is a red herring that distracts us from the real contest of our time....

Energy Binds China and Canada - Wenran Jiang, Financial Post

All eyes are on Prime Minister Harper’s second visit to Beijing, where his repeated emphasis on diversification to the China market got a major boost with the signing of nine eco...

Defense Cuts Sap Obama's Asia Pivot - Michael Auslin, Wall Street Journal

Singapore - The release of the Pentagon budget late last month made clear just how the U.S. military will reach President Obama's goal of becoming "leaner." The Army will shrink 1...

Overstating China's Village Protests - David Pilling, Financial Times

Elections in Wukan are like buses. Nothing, then three come along at once. Last week, the rebellious fishing village in Guangdong province, southern China, voted in a party-lik...

India Bulks Up Military With China in Mind - Nirmala George, AP

In recent weeks, India has decided to buy 126 fighter jets from France, taken delivery of a nuclear-powered submarine from Russia and prepared for its first aircraft carrier ...

Beijing Finds Vulnerable Ally in Berlin - Jian Junbo, Asia Times

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to China highlights a significant warming of relations as the countries find common ground on issues ranging from the eurozone crisis to Lib...

China's Long Game in Afghanistan - Nick Bryant, The Interpreter

With the headlines out of Afghanistan dominated by America's revised exit strategy, it has been easy to miss the news of China's enhanced engagement, both commercially and diplomat...

Exposing Mao's Stockholm Syndrome - Frank Ching, China Post

More than 45 years ago, Chairman Mao Zedong launched the tumultuous Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which led to the destruction of millions of Chinese lives. It was a trage...

A Post-American World? Not Quite - Victor Davis Hanson, National Review

As far as the 21st century goes, compared to the alternatives, it is more likely that we are in a pre-American than a post-American age....

Europe's Carbon Trade War - Wall Street Journal

Beijing tells Brussels what it can do with its airline emissions tax....

China's Achilles' Heel: Natural Resources - Minxin Pei, The Diplomat

With little in the way of force projection, China's dependence on natural resources in unstable parts of the world could undercut its economic ambitions. There are limits to free...

How We Learned Not to Fear China's Bomb - Dan Gardner, Ottawa Citizen

Of course Maoist China is not theocratic Iran. This history does not conclusively prove that Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons would not end in tragedy. But it is a warning. ...

China's Tangled Web in Year of Dragon - Lianchao Han, RealClearWorld

This week marks the final day the celebration of the Chinese New Year, the Year of the Dragon, a lunar calendar event that occurs once every 12 years. Dragon years have deep psych...

The China, Russia Factor in the U.S.-Iran Standoff - CSIS

US competition with Iran has become the equivalent of a game of three-dimensional chess, but a game where each side can modify at least some of the rules with each move. It is also...

The West's First War With China - Tonio Andrade, The Diplomat

This month marks the 350th anniversary of the West’s first war with China. In February 1662, Generalissimo Zheng Chenggong swept the Dutch off of Taiwan, bringing the island und...

Should China Become Interventionist? - Iain Mills, World Politics Review

China's long-standing policy of non-interference in the sovereign affairs of other nations is a cornerstone of its Peaceful Rise foreign policy doctrine. But as recent events have ...

A New UN, But for Good Guys - Jonah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times

A permanent global clubhouse for democracies based on shared principles would make it easier to aid growing movements....

Libya Success Makes Syria Harder - Joshua Foust, The Atlantic

The intervention in Libya -- often touted by advocates as a sterling example of how to intervene responsibly in a civil conflict to prevent atrocity -- has largely fallen off the...

'Quiet Diplomacy' Doesn't Work With China - J. Michael Cole, Ottawa Cit'zn

Unfortunately for Harper and Baird, the silent, behind-the-scenes approach doesn't seem to be bearing fruit. While an increasing number of countries - all seeking to improve trad...

Can't Live With China ... - National Post

In the long run, engaging with a cruel regime may be the only way to stand up against it....

China Needs to Change Mideast Foreign Policy - James Dorsey, Bloomberg

The decision to veto a condemnation of the Syrian regime at the United Nations Security Council is just the latest signal that illustrates the need for a fundamental change in Chin...

Coming Soon: Deflation and Depreciation in China - Gordon Chang, Forbes

On Friday, an economist with the State Council’s Development Research Center issued a warning that consumer prices could fall in the second half of this year. &l...

Can Canadian Brand Cope With Asia? - Khanh Vu Duc, Asia Sentinel

The South China Sea—or rather the Asian continent as a whole—is a giant-size chess board. All the pieces are set and in play. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harpe...

Russia and China Must Not Shield Syria - Jerusalem Post

A UN veto says it all - Russia and China must not shield Assad any longer....

Harper's China Trip About More Than Giant Pandas - Toronto Star

Still, opening Canadian doors to yet another Chinese import, however cuddly, isn’t the driver for Harper’s second trade trip. Breaking open China’s fast-growing...

Sino-Russian Syria Veto a Realpolitik Win for West - Jon Kay, Nat'l Post

The Western powers enjoy the moral advantage of having campaigned publicly for a UN Security Council resolution that, in theory, would have encouraged a peaceful outcome in Syria...

Aussies Now a Key Player in U.S. Defense - Matthew Fisher, Calgary Herald

Australia is walking a slippery diplomatic slope because its booming resource-based economy depends heavily on exports to China....

Tell China to Stop Slave Labor - David Matas, Winnipeg Free Press

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, on his trade mission to China next week, should ask China to stop exporting the products of slave labour to Canada and to shut down its ex...

Why Does China Want South China Sea? Oil - Will Rogers, The Diplomat

Beijing seems to be doubling down in the South China Sea. Why? In large part it’s to secure access to potential deep sea hydrocarbons like oil and natural gas – many describe ...

Sudan Tests China's Foreign Policy - Daniel Large, World Politics Review

In December, with a dispute over oil-transit fees between Sudan and South Sudan exacerbating already tense post-independence relations, the world looked to China to save the day. B...

Canada's Long Game on China - Joseph Caron & Wenran Jiang, National Post

As Prime Minister Harper heads for China in a few days, Canadians, by and large, have a general understanding of what he will be seeking from the Chinese: a commitment to sustain t...

Expect China to Shape Next Bretton Woods Pact - Philip Coggan, Bloomberg

It seems unlikely that the next 10 years will see a yuan standard replacing a dollar standard. But might the present crisis conditions lead to some other sort of change? Might coun...

China Gets a Taste of Post-Dalai Lama Era - Martina & Rhoads, Reuters

The aging spiritual leader's presence and message of non-violence have kept a damper on unrest but, once he dies, things could worsen rapidly....

Australia Must Beef Up Northern Naval Presence - Scott Barnes, SMH

With the economic rise of Asia comes military advancement, meaning that neighbouring countries to our north, which have never previously posed a serious threat to our national se...

Why China Isn't Freaking Out - Michael Mazza & Daniel Vajdic, The Diplomat

There are good reasons why the rhetoric from Moscow is harsher than Beijing's. For a start, China knows lashing out at the U.S. is counterproductive....

Trials of China: A Reluctant Superpower - David Pilling, Financial Times

In 1793 the Emperor Qianlong airily dismissed the emissary of King George III on the grounds that China was the self-sufficient centre of the world and had no conceivable need of i...

China's Soft-Power Offensive on Taiwan - Yuriko Koike, Project Syndicate

TOKYO – China’s behavior during the recent presidential election in Taiwan demonstrates that its leaders have learned some lessons, if only the hard way. They have learned ...

Is Burma Turning on China? - John Lee, The National Interest

Last October, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a speech to the New York Economic Club. She spoke on the need for the United States to improve its statecraft by using econom...

What's China Doing Underground? - Hui Zhang, Power & Policy

China’s underground Great Wall is converting its land-based ballistic missiles into “tunnel-launched ballistic missiles” (I prefer the new acronym “TLBM”). Thus, Chin...

Canada's Conservatives Change Tune on China - John Ivison, National Post

The Prime Minister travels to Beijing early next week, where he will be received much more warmly than in the days when the Conservatives were the party of principled opposition to...

Europe Teams With China in Space Race - Christian Schwagerl, Der Spiegel

Europe's space industry, cash-strapped as a result of the debt crisis, wants to step up cooperation with China, which has an ambitious program and is building a moon-landing vehicl...

Mitt Romney's China Policy - Carnegie Endowment for Int'l Peace

China's impact on the U.S. economy and its rising global power gives China a significant role in the Republican primaries. Mitt Romney, the embattled frontrunner for the nomination...

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