China and East Asia
September 2003
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September Article Abstracts
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Title: Changing Course on China
Author: Elizabeth Economy
“Relations between China and the United States are perhaps the best they have been since 1989. . . . What accounts for this seemingly dramatic transformation?”
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Title: China and the Politics of SARS
Author: Joseph Fewsmith
"By challenging the Chinese to consider not only the accountability of their government, but also issues of openness, trust, responsiveness, and the ‘right to know,' the sars crisis seems likely to provide a major impetus to new thinking about relations between society and state."
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Title: Hong Kong and the Limits of People Power
Author: Frank Ching
"Hong Kong has little choice but to try to make the one country, two systems formula work. The alternative is not independence but absorption into the mainland's political system."
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Title: "Houston, We Have a Problem": China and the Race to Space
Author: Joan Johnson-Freese
"If the United States continues to exploit the obvious military advantages of space and China feels compelled to respond, a space race seems inevitable. It is inevitable because both countries recognize that space can provide advantages, or at least avoid disadvantages, regarding the other. Space may inevitably make China the third man in the fourth battlefield."
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Title: China's Brave New World
Author: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
"China's leaders have shifted from relying on Orwellian strategies to policies that Huxley provides us with a better guide for understanding...[T]o see China today as a Big Brother state is to miss much that has been actually taking place in the People's Republic."
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Title: Feeding China: From Wanting to Wasting
Author: Vaclav Smil
"The food-related China fears of yesterday-the country's predicted inability to feed itself, thus putting an unbearable burden on global food supplies-have today been replaced by new worries, about pandemic possibilities."
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Title: China and North Korea: The Limits of Influence
Author: Andrew Scobell
"The Bush administration should recognize that on North Korea, only limited support will be forthcoming from Beijing. The best Washington can expect is a China actively pressing the United States and North Korea to talk and willing to host or participate in further meetings. But this presumes that both Pyongyang and Washington are ready to sit down in the first place."
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Title: America and South Korea: The Ambivalent Alliance?
Author: Victor D. Cha
"If South Korean resentment of America's military presence is less clear-cut than many would suggest, so, too, are the policy differences supposedly dividing American and South Korean leaders."
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Title: Democracy Endangered: Thailand's Thaksin Flirts with Dictatorship
Author: Joshua Kurlantzick
"Ultimately, if reformist elements . . . do not restrain [Prime Minister Thaksin], Thailand could develop into a larger version of Singapore: a state with a veneer of democratic politics covering a one-party system."
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Title: Book Reviews: On China: The New Chinese Empire-And What It Means for The United States
Author: Reviewer: Alan T. Sorenson
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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: Asia
A map of Asia.
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