What China Wants
As a connoisseur of fine diplomacy, Henry Kissinger finds a lot of it to admire in China. His new book, cast as a history of Chinese foreign policy, traces the twists and turns of Chinese strategy...
View ArticleCommunist Party of China: 90 is the new 60
China is like the proverbial Indian elephant as ‘seen’ by five blind men. What you don’t see is what you get. When you don’t acknowledge China’s stupendous achievements, what you find is a country that...
View ArticleThrough the Eyes of Tiger Cubs: Views of Asia’s Next Generation
An Excerpt from Through the Eyes of Tiger Cubs: Views of Asia’s Next Generation; By: Mark L. Clifford and Janet Pau. Excerpt from Part 1: Chapter 2, pp. 35-38: Introduction Deng Xiaoping famously...
View ArticleIndia in China’s New Asertiveness
The international community took note of China exercising veto over the UN Security Council resolution on Syria recently, which called on President Bashar Al-Assad to step down. The veto came in the...
View ArticlePower Shift in China – Part III
NEW HAVEN: The spectacular fall of one of China’s leading politicians, the Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai, reminds foreign policy watchers about the uncertainty that lurks behind the impressive...
View ArticleCourts With Chinese Characteristics
Just 40 years ago, as my family and I were completing a very pleasant and productive academic year in Japan, we had our first opportunity to visit China. We had been waiting to do so for more than a...
View ArticleBurying Mao
The founder of the People’s Republic of China, Mao Zedong, might never get a real burial. His body is likely to rest for quite some time to come in the Tienanmen Square mausoleum. But the 18th Congress...
View ArticleAnti-Japan propaganda has handcuffed Beijing
HONG KONG – The territorial dispute between China and Japan over a group of islands in the East China Sea continues to worsen, with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warning Beijing not to try to...
View Article‘Modi will be firm on Indian interests’
With 282 seats the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party has won a decisive mandate in the recent Lok Sabha elections. Now India and the world are waiting for Modi to outline his key economic and...
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