China Policy Institute Blog
The Xi-Obama Summit: Much Ado About Very Little
June 10, 2013
Written by June Teufel Dreyer For a summit billed as informal—for any summit, for that matter—the Xi-Obama meeting generated an extraordinary amount of media attention. Speculation abounded over peripheral issues: why was the meeting being held in California rather than in the nation’s capital? Why did First Lady Michelle Obama not plan to attend, even …
The Obama-Xi Shirt-Sleeves Summit in Sunnyland: Seeking a “New Type Of Great Power Relationship”
June 9, 2013
Written by Don Keyser Presidents Obama and Xi Jinping met June 7-8 for about eight hours of free-ranging, “unscripted” discussions at the Sunnylands retreat in Rancho Mirage, California. Both sides played down expectations that the “shirt-sleeves summit” would yield significant policy “deliverables.” The sole announcement of a concrete outcome is on climate change: an agreement …
Watches and cuckoo clocks – the tick-tock of China-Europe relations
June 7, 2013
Written by Stephen L. Morgan. What is it about Europeans and Chinese? Or rather, what’s rattling each of their cages at present? Trade relations have been at the heart of some pretty heavy words and precipitate actions that do little for the mutual understanding or prosperity of either. Of Europe’s 31 global trade disputes that …
Enemy of the People―Visual Depictions of Chiang Kai-shek
June 4, 2013
Written by Jeremy E. Taylor. Academic interest in Chinese propaganda is nothing new. Propaganda posters, particularly those dating from the years of the Cultural Revolution, have inspired an entire field of academic enquiry over recent years, and a lucrative trade in visual art from the period continues to thrive both in China and through art …
June 4: Memories, Myths, and Memorials
June 3, 2013
Written by Jackie Sheehan. It was 24 years ago today that 130,000 troops from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) entered central Beijing to end the occupation of Tiananmen Square which had begun in mid-May. From late in the evening of June 3, to get to the remaining student and worker activists and sympathisers still in …
The Chen Shui-bian Drama Gets Weirder
Written by J Michael Cole. Taiwan’s Ministry of Justice confirmed on Monday that former president Chen Shui-bian, who is serving a 20-year jail sentence for corruption, attempted suicide by hanging on the evening of June 2, the latest in a long list of dramatic events involving the controversial former leader. According to reports, the 62-year-old, …
Democracy, Property Rights and China
June 2, 2013
Written by Niv Horesh. In the early 20th century, Max Weber’s influential theories led Western scholars of both leftist and conservative leanings to argue that the spread of capitalism and “bourgeois” democracy in the 17th century had been driven, in the face of nobility resistance, by the growth of autonomous professional elites in Western European …
Going global ain’t easy
May 28, 2013
Written by Stephen Morgan. Big Chinese companies face tough scrutiny when they go overseas. None in the past year has had it tougher than the telecom giants Huawei and ZTE Corp, ranked globally the second and fifth largest telecom equipment firms in the world. Huawei in particular has copped it badly. Politicians in Australia, Europe and the USA …
Why has FDI followed different paths in China and India?
May 23, 2013
Written by Karolina Wysoczanska. Over the last few decades, China and India have made substantial improvements in the structural transformation of their economies by allowing foreign firms to compete in markets from which they were previously barred. At the outset of reforms, the conditions of both economies were similar, and both were under the influence of …
What we can learn from the Russian internet… or why politicians use Twitter.
Written by Bettina Renz. State control over most of the national media in Russia has meant that Russian newspapers and TV today are a lot less interesting as a source of political research than they were in the 1990s. The situation regarding the internet is different. This is relatively free and online content in Russia …
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