China and East Asia
September 2005
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September Article Abstracts
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Title: America's Bismarckian Asia Policy
Author: Eric Heginbotham and Christopher P. Twomey
"US policy is not achieving the goals set out for it. It is ceding regional leadership while seeding regional rivalry. It is missing opportunities to help shape the development of a new security environment through regional institutions and instead acting to exacerbate the rise of nationalism. . . ."
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Title: Chinese Nationalism: Challenging the State?
Author: Peter Hays Gries
"It would be a mistake to attribute to the Communist Party complete control over Chinese nationalism today. With the emergence of the Internet, cell phones, and text messaging, popular nationalists in China are increasingly able to act independently of the state."
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Title: Corruption, Growth, and Reform: The Chinese Enigma
Author: Yan Sun
"The cumulative unfolding of corruption's many paradoxes in China has, above all, built up momentum and public support to improve state capacities, rather than further weaken them. Beijing does not suffer a legitimacy deficit despite corruption's staying power as a top public concern."
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Title: China's New Exchange Rate Regime
Author: Barry Eichengreen
"China's exchange rate system is a work in progress. Notwithstanding all the attention attracted by the dramatic decisions this July, that process has only started."
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Title: Repairing China's Social Safety Net
Author: Athar Hussain
"Recent years have seen a marked shift away from single-minded emphasis on economic growth toward the development of a 'harmonious society.' Progress in improving China's social security system probably will be much quicker over the next 20 years than in the previous 20, but reform will still be piecemeal."
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Title: Made in the P.R.C.: China's Consumer Revolution
Author: Amy Hanser
"Although the market and opportunities for consumption seem to offer a counterbalance to the government's authoritarian powers, many Chinese are ambivalent about the forces of Westernization and marketization and the rapidly growing gap between rich and poor."
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Title: China's Environmental Challenge
Author: Elizabeth Economy
"Environmental degradation and pollution constrain economic growth, contribute to large-scale migration, harm public health, and engender social unrest. Moreover, there is the potential . . . for the environment to serve as a locus for broader political discontent and further political reforms."
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Title: Viva Macao?
Author: Joshua Kurlantzick
"The influx of investment in gambling is powering Macao's growth, and Beijing thus far has tolerated the casino boom. In the longer term, however, China could enact policies that would stunt Macao's gambling industry and potentially burst the enclave's economic success."
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Title: The Fallout of a Nuclear North Korea
Author: Andrew Scobell and Michael R. Chambers
"The nuclearization of North Korea will have a profound impact on Northeast Asia. If Pyongyang opts for crash nuclearization through a weapon test, that could bring the countries of the region together in opposition. This reaction is far from assured, however . . . ."
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Title: Red Star over the Himalayas
Author: Chitra Tiwari
"Those who have watched the deteriorating political conditions in Nepal for several years are skeptical of the royal regime's capacity to bring the insurgency under control. . . . Nepal, they say, is now destined for a surge in violence and the 237-year-old Nepali monarchy appears doomed."
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Title: Four Months in Review
An international chronology, country by country, day by day, of events from April through July 2005.
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Title: Asia
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