Commentary
The USA is here to stay
- Tue, 11/22/2011 - 11:00
China's extraordinary economic growth in recent decades has led to considerable speculation about whether its rise will continue to be peaceful and the impact it will have on the existing world order.
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How China Can Defeat America
- Mon, 11/21/2011 - 11:00
WITH China’s growing influence over the global economy, and its increasing ability to project military power, competition between the United States and China is inevitable. Leaders of both countries assert optimistically that the competition can be managed without clashes that threaten the global order.
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Asia finds voice in test of wills with China
- Mon, 11/21/2011 - 11:00
It was a test of wills. The government in Beijing wanted to discourage the leaders of 17 other countries from discussing a sensitive matter of Chinese territorial claims at their meeting at the weekend.
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It is freedom that scares China, not US troops
- Fri, 11/18/2011 - 11:00
WHAT really worries the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party, is that the shared US-Australian values outlined in your editorial ("Obama's successful visit had wise words on China", 18/11) are the antithesis of those of the corrupt regime that rules China.
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China Might Have Over-Reached Itself
- Tue, 11/15/2011 - 11:00
There are times when seemingly unrelated anecdotes are more revealing than reams of data. This just might be one of those times, when it comes to U.S. relations with China, China's economic future, and the geopolitics of Chinese economic expansion.
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Analysis: Chinese financial help could carry risk for Europe
- Mon, 11/14/2011 - 11:00
As a cash-strapped Europe scrambles to woo China's support for a financial rescue package, human rights groups and dissidents are warning that in taking such help, the West will sacrifice some leverage over China.
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DEBATE PREP: What if China Changes?
- Thu, 11/10/2011 - 11:00
The political debate over China seems familiar because they've been on the political table for years. Is China taking American jobs? How cooperative is the People's Republic of China (PRC) on issues like nuclear programs in North Korea and Iran?
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In China, putting a price on democracy
- Wed, 11/09/2011 - 11:00
CHINESE AUTHORITIES must have thought they had cornered the dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who is renowned for his avant-garde productions and for his willingness to speak up for human rights.
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Bollywood, India's Brahmastra
- Mon, 11/07/2011 - 11:00
If two countries that are part of a global supply chain like Dell's are unlikely to go to battle,as Tom Friedman, or some other wise man once said, what about countries that are part of Bollywood's supply chain? Teeth-grinding and sabre-rattling notwithstanding, would they step back from a big fight?
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There's a mountain still to be climbed
- Mon, 11/07/2011 - 11:00
In 1975 the first five students sent by the People's Republic of China started their studies at the Australian National University in Canberra, closely watched by the Chinese embassy to see they didn't pick up any incorrect thoughts.
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