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Google or China: Who Has More to Lose?
The decision by Google to pull out of China is a sign that all is not well for the Chinese Communist Party. It shows the leadership is both very confident and very insecure.How else to explain its...
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Stabilizing South Asia
Ambassador Shivshankar Menon’s piece on India’s Pakistan dilemma (“Hostile Relations,” Fall 2009) explains the obstacles Pakistan poses to India’s ascent. He describes India’s ability to “solve” the...
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Google Stands Up
Google’s decision to stop censoring searches on its China-based servers, rerouting search requests instead to its uncensored Hong Kong facilities, is historic. Google has shown itself unwilling simply...
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The Global Economy’s Second Day of Reckoning
On the second anniversary of the Lehman crisis, the world economy finds itself yet again at a very troubling juncture. The US economy now shows every signs of heading for a double dip recession and...
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China Bashers Pass Buck on Why United States Is Ailing
China bashing is all the rage in Washington, as politicians of both parties blame the world’s fastest-growing major economy for high jobless rates in the U.S.Such a popular target is China that the...
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Contra Kissinger
“The United States in the 20th century is an example of a state achieving eminence without conflict with the then-dominant countries.”What United States is Henry Kissinger talking about? His...
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What Does the Unrest in the Middle East Tell Us about China?
Isn’t this the era of the “Rise of the Rest,” isn’t the unipolar moment over yet again? Isn’t China already a global leader, pushing for what it wants internationally? Alas, despite all the predictions...
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China Is No Egypt
While it may be comforting to read in Hosni Mubarak’s resignation the universal forces of people power and democratization, pundits who are beginning to contemplate breathlessly whether Egypt’s...
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Ai Weiwei, Bob Dylan, and Dignity
The detention of famed Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has garnered widespread condemnation in the West. That he is a patriot, and a well known one at that–he helped design Beijing’s ‘bird’s nest’ stadium,...
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China’s stock market is about to tank — again
When the U.S. Federal Reserve recently decided not to raise interest rates, a major factor it cited was the “heightened uncertainties abroad.” They obviously meant China, where equity markets have...
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China’s new securities superstar, Fang Xinghai, is no hero
The public’s confidence in China’s stock market is at an all-time low. Firms and individuals were fined two billion yuan last month for “manipulating the market,” the president of a state-owned...
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