China
September 2001
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September Article Abstracts
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Title: Cracks in the Wall: China's Eroding Coercive State
Author: Murray Scot Tanner
China's coercive system still shows a capacity to suppress individuals deemed threatening to the state. Beneath the surface, this system is facing unprecedented challenges to central control, effectiveness, and discipline, all of which could produce a growing crisis of governability for Beijing.
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Title: China as Number One
Author: Soong-Bum Ahn
The inferred assumption in most American scenarios is one in which a dominant China is a threat to its neighbors and the United States. Yet what if China acts as a benevolent hegemon, or at least a benign one?
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Title: The United States and China: Rhetoric and Reality
Author: David Bachman
The rhetoric of the Bush administration can be seen as part of the "positioning" process as one party replaces the other in the presidency, working hard to show it is breaking with the past before it moves in the direction of the prior administration. But such a sanguine conclusion appears premature.
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Title: Human Rights and the Lessons of History
Author: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
When attempting to bring pressure on Beijing, the United States should stop using vague universal standards or comparisons with the contemporary United States. Washington's criticisms of the Chinese Communist Party should instead build on Beijing's own claims about history and politics.
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Title: China's Media: Between Politics and the Market
Author: Judy Polumbaum
Were it not for the shifting sands into which the bold and the hapless alike sometimes fall, the persistence of official rhetoric portraying media as the standard-bearer of correct guidance and orientation would seem laughable. At the least it is irreversibly anachronistic.
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Title: Tibet: Myths and Realities
Author: Barry Sautman
As the myths surrounding the Tibetan cause are challenged by scholars, migr‚ leaders may reconsider their claim that an independent Tibet is inevitable. And China's leaders may confront the self-delusion that because the Tibet question will end with the Dalai Lama, a compromise settlement is unnecessary.
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Title: Hong Kong: Still "One Country, Two Systems"?
Author: Craig N. Canning
After four years of Hong Kong self-rule, the overriding question remains whether the "one country, two systems" experiment is working. So far the answer is yes-with some qualification.
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Title: Reforming China's Financial Markets
Author: Stephen Thomas and Ji Chen
China has begun another major stage of its market reforms in its financial system. These reforms will continue to move China gradually but inevitably toward modern financial institutions that will provide an additional stimulus to China's overall economic development.
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Title: Book Review
Author: David M. Edelstein
On China
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Title: Four Months in Review
An international chronology of events in April, May, June, and July, country by country, day by day.
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Title: A map of China.
A map of China.
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