China and East Asia

November 2008
Perspective: A New Strategy on Myanmar
by MORTON ABRAMOWITZ and JONATHAN KOLIEB
International indignation and efforts to isolate the brutal junta have not helped the very people whom outsiders want to aid—Myanmar's long-suffering citizens.

September 2008
Forced Harmony: China’s Olympic Rollercoaster
by Dali L. Yang
"The Chinese leadership is caught between the demands of populism and internationalism. Again and again, in order to win international approval, the government has had to buck public sentiments that the party propaganda machine itself has helped to foster."

September 2008
Japan’s New Politics: Quiet Before the Storm?
by Steven Vogel
"Koizumi convinced Japanese voters that he could do more to change Japanese politics than the opposition; his successors will be hard-pressed to repeat that feat."

September 2008
South Korea’s Not-So-Sharp Right Turn
by David C. Kang
"The scope of Lee's foreign policy, and the type of change he achieves, will depend as much on the factors constraining him as on his own ideas about how best to govern."

September 2008
Beyond Demonization: A New Strategy for Human Rights in North Korea
by Katharine H. S. Moon
"Persistently engaging and formally recognizing North Korea are the measures that hold most promise on many contentious issues, including human rights."

September 2008
Does China Face a “Lost Decade?”
by Richard Katz
"When smart policy makers make big miscalculations over a considerable period of time, some fundamental political imperative is usually distracting them from economic rationality."

September 2008
Taiwan’s Liberation of China
by Randall Schriver and Mark Stokes
"There is reason for guarded optimism that—as long as Taiwan's process of democratic consolidation continues—the island will continue to exert influence

September 2008
Beijing Eyes a Bear Market
by Lyric Hughes Hale
Has China now reached a critical developmental limit, and is this being played out in its no-longer buoyant stock markets?"

September 2008
The Party-State Studies Abroad
by David Shambaugh
"The CCP has been willing to search for useful ideas abroad, with a view to selectively borrowing, adapting, and grafting them to indigenous Chinese institutions and practices."

September 2008
China’s Next Revolution
by Elizabeth Economy
Only environmental changes of a magnitude equal to Deng Xiaoping's sweeping economic reforms can rescue the People's Republic from disaster

September 2008
Books Review: The Making of Modern East Asia
by William Anthony Hay
Books on China and East Asia

September 2008
Month In Review
by Editors
Month in review April-July 2008

September 2008
Map Of Asia
by Editors
Map of Asia

May 2008
America's Place in the Asian Century
by Kishore Mahbubani
"The moment has come for fresh US policy on East Asia. This should be priority number one or the next president.

November 2007
China Needs Help with Climate Change
by Kelly Sims Gallagher
"As a developing country, China still lacks many of the institutions, policies, and enforcement mechanisms that are needed to foster technology transfer and environmental protection."

October 2007
Russia and China: The Ambivalent Embrace
by Andrew Kuchins
"Despite deep-seated wariness toward China on the part of the Russian leadership and people, ties with Beijing have significantly advanced under the leadership of both Yeltsin and Putin."

September 2007
The Future of China’s Party-State
by Bruce J. Dickson, Bruce Gilley, Merle Goldman and Dali L. Yang
Does the Chinese Communist Party derive enough legitimacy from economic growth? Can a party-state survive by co-opting some potential challengers while repressing others? So far, the CCP has answered these questions in the affirmative. Yet the debate goes on. This year, as the party's Seventeenth Congress prepares to unveil a new Politburo (same as the old Politburo?), we asked four scholars to offer their latest thinking on the subject.

September 2007
China’s Conflicted Olympic Moment
by Allen Carlson
"Beijing has worked meticulously to foster the image of China as a responsible power. . . . At the same time, opposition to us hegemony is one of the pillars of Chinese nationalism."

September 2007
Why Memory Lingers in East Asia
by Bruce Cumings
"There has been no closure to either the Korean-Japanese or the Korean war from the North Korean standpoint; neither has come to an appropriate resolution."

September 2007
North Korea Takes on the World
by Charles K. Armstrong
"The road ahead for Korean denuclearization and the normalization of us-North Korean relations promises to be bumpy and unpredictable."