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China on the March

Ashton B. Carter
William J. Perry
| Mar 01, 2007
Dos and Don’ts for U.S. strategic planners when it comes to dealing with China.

Paradigm Lost

David M. Lampton | Sep 01, 2005
We have long underestimated China's potential. But overestimating it will be just as bad for U.S. policy formulation.

China Studies in McCarthy's Shadow: A Personal Memoir

Richard L. Walker | Sep 01, 1998
Great differences among academics and personal antagonisms in their fields of specialization are common in the best of times.

Mao in History

Ross Terrill | Jun 01, 1998
During the first decades of Mao's China, a time of American self-confidence and strong sense of purpose spurred by the World War II victory, U.S. Sinology for the most part took on an "idealist" rather than a "realist" orientation: hopeful about s
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Commentary

Xi's Reforms Face Big Obstacles

Robert Keatley | May 02, 2013
The old ways are too entrenched for the new president to uproot.

Why Reform Eludes China

Jonathan Levine | Jan 17, 2013
Inertia has become the name of the game.

China's Laissez-Faire Authoritarians

Doug Bandow | Nov 30, 2012
The Chinese are becoming more opinionated. They may not want democracy, but they often want change.
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Blogs

China, Old and New

Doug Bandow | Apr 17, 2012
The old days of back-room machinations under Mao Zedong are gone for good.

Books & Reviews

Big Ideas, Big Problems

Stefan Halper | Mar 01, 2007
Policy decisions suffer when the rational center remains silent and catchphrases take over the debate.

Communist Crowd Control

George Walden | Jun 01, 2001
The secretly constructed record of the Communist Party decision to crack down on Tiananmen protesters rings true to an old China hand.

Seeing Red, Review of John E. Haynes' Red Scare or Red Menace? American Communism and Anticommunism in the Cold War Era

Joshua Muravchik | Sep 01, 1996
Seeing Red, Review of John E.

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