Foreign relations of the People's Republic of China Articles

An Asian Security Standoff

Alan Dupont | Apr 25, 2012
An intense security competition is under way in East Asia. Beijing and Washington must take care to ensure that this competition does not give way to entrenched bloody-mindedness or even outright violence.

Chinese Nationalism and Its Discontents

Robert S. Ross | Oct 25, 2011
China must choose between kowtowing to domestic nationalism and submitting to a peaceful rise. Lately, nationalist belligerence has ruled the day. Washington is overreacting, encircling China. A latent rivalry ratchets up to dangerous levels.

Dollars & Sense

Grover G. Norquist
Dov S. Zakheim
| Jul 02, 2008
Pundits across the political spectrum have been busy making pronouncements about the “real” financial and political costs of the war in Iraq. Most of them are just blowing smoke. In TNI’s Realist, Grover Norquist and Dov Zakheim separate fact from

Cell Phones in the Hindu Kush

Bruce Hoffman
Seth G. Jones
| Jun 24, 2008
Al-Qaeda’s resurgent and it’s putting itself back together on the Afghan-Pakistan border. How are U.S. efforts stacking up? A trip to the region.

All the World's A Stage: America's Image in the Muslim World

Andrew Kohut
Richard Wike
| May 06, 2008
"Simply put, America’s image in much of the Muslim world remains abysmal." With the deepening and unrelenting challenges we face in the Middle East, how much has America’s image in the Muslim world declined?

The Friend of My Enemy

Thomas E. Graham | Apr 25, 2008
The road to a solution for America’s Iran problem runs through Moscow. How to think about the costs—and benefits.

Our Imaginary Foe

Geoffrey Kemp | Apr 25, 2008
Finding monsters under the bed and bogeymen in the closet. Why exaggerating the Iranian threat is bad for U.S. foreign policy.

The Free Trade Debate

Gary Clyde Hufbauer
Joseph E. Stiglitz
| Apr 25, 2008
Joseph Stiglitz and Gary Hufbauer

The Fair Play Debate: Fair Trade

Joseph E. Stiglitz | Apr 25, 2008
The odds are against developing countries when it comes to trade. Social safeguards level the playing field.

The Fair Play Debate: Free Trade

Gary Clyde Hufbauer | Apr 25, 2008
Rhetoric aside, free trade can benefit everyone—if only countries were a little more open to the rules of the game.

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