CHINA NEWS
China: difficult to govern
Yiyi Lu. China Real Time Report: The Wall St Journal. May 6, 2010 Yiyi Lu, an expert on Chinese civil society, discusses the continued rise of popular protests in China. Ms. Lu is a research fellow at the University of Nottingham’s China Policy Institute and an associate fellow at the U.K.-based Chatham House. She is [...]
China’s private party
Richard McGregor. THE SATURDAY ESSAY: The Wall St Journal. May 15, 2010 Richard McGregor is deputy news editor and former Beijing bureau chief for the Financial Times. This essay is adapted from: 'The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers' "The Communist Party has made strenuous efforts to keep signs of its enduring power [...]
Modern humanism in China
Didi Kirsten Tatlow. The New York Tines/Letter From China: May 13, 2010 In Search of a Modern Humanism in China BEIJING — When Han Han, China's 27-year-old superstar blogger, author and literary bad boy, who loves to drive racing cars and thumb his nose at the establishment, announced the title of his hotly anticipated new [...]
The West & China: over-ambition fails
John Lee: The Australian. March 26, 2010 In dealing with Beijing, over-ambition tends to backfire IN 1981, a business book appeared that proved to be a bestseller for the next two decades. Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury advocated non-adversarial negotiation. Key principles included "focusing on the problem rather than the person", [...]
Australia & China: interests and values
Alan Dupont. The Australian. April 12, 2010 Alan Dupont is the director of the Centre for International Security Studies at the University of Sydney. Many shared interests but few shared values with China THE once pervasive optimism among Western liberals that China's rise will be strategically benign and a boon to an ailing global economy [...]
China: mixing business and politics
Russell Leigh Moses. The Wall St Journal. March 23, 2010 Russell Leigh Moses is a Beijing-based analyst and professor who writes on Chinese politics. He is writing a book on the changing role of power in the Chinese political system. Mixing Business and Politics in China Something has happened to the happy road that foreign [...]
Australia: a good brand in China
Morris Kaplan: The Australian. January 16, 2010 Australia a good brand in China THE Australian Trade Commission's chief economist Tim Harcourt says it is "bamboo shoots" not green shoots that saved Australia from a hard landing after the global financial crisis. "And it's not just Woodside and BHP Billiton who are selling to the [...]
The USA: advice from grandma.
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN. Op-Ed columnist. The new York Times. Nov 22, 2009 . Advice From Grandma President Obama’s visit to China this week inevitably invites comparisons between the world’s two leading powers. You know what they say: Britain owned the 19th century, America owned the 20th century, and, it’s all but certain that China will [...]
Five things to learn from China.
Bill Powell. Time magazine. Nov. 12, 2009 . Five Things the U.S. Can Learn from China Be ambitious. Education matters. Look after the elderly. Save more. Look over the horizon. On the evening of Nov. 15, President Barack Obama, the youthful leader of one of the world's youngest countries, begins his first visit to China, [...]