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Human rights violations continue in China
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China´s communist government continues its shameful crackdown on human rights in 2012:The Chinese government recently sentenced three prominent activists to lengthy prison sentences, confirming that human rights standards in the count...
Future of Taiwan-China and Taiwan-U.S. relations after Ma’s reelection
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Read what experts say. Nathan K. H. Liu, Associate Professor, Ming Chuan University Ma’s China policy will continue and the exchange process across the Strait will speed up given the mutual trust across the Taiwan Strait over the past four years. I...
Where next? China’s internal internet debate
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What type of superpower China will evolve into is hotly debated. Will it become a new world empire like the US, able to police its interests across the globe? Or will it become a purelyRead more…...
Is China already rebalancing?
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There is plenty of disappointment floating around concerning the big Chinese finance policy meeting which ended on Saturday. The general criticism is the lack of a signal of any...
EU/China Year of Intercultural Dialogue - Launch Conference
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Philippe Kern will be a key-note speaker at the launch conference of the EU/China Year of Intercultural Dialogue taking place in Brussels on 2 February 2012 at Bozar Programme...
Why Russia Matters to China
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By David Cohen As the regime of Vladimir Putin faces the most serious challenge of its 12 years in power, Chinese l...
As Chinese apartments go, so goes China
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It seems that investors in Chinese shares are not feeling too optimistic of late:Little sign of any of those risk-on blips on the newsflow from Europe or the US.Chinese home...
The United States and China: friends under compulsion
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video By Stanislovas Stasiulis The United States and China...
EU, Africa and China in the 2000s: Bilateral relations and trilateral failure
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By accident, I’ve come across a very fascinating academic journal article on EU-Africa relations and the role China played in this relationship in the first decade of the 21st century. “The European Union and China’s rise in Africa:...
China Favors EU Direct Investment
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China is more interested in investing directly in Europe than buying European Union debt with its colossal foreign currency reserves, a senior civil servant said Tuesday.
The markets distrust democracy. Just ask the masters of Beijing and Moscow | Jonathan Freedland
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Why is the democratic world faring so much worse in this crisis than its authoritarian rivals? It's the austerity, stupidHow will historians remember 2011, the year which, according to the satirists at the Onion, has already used up the next decade's...
The truth about China
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By Matthew (Workers Liberty website) A top Chinese government official has blamed Europe’s economic problems on welfare provision and labour laws. Jin Liqun, chair of China’s sovereign wealth fund (the body which manages the Chinese governme...
A jump of the Asian “tiger” to Eastern Europe
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By Česlovas Iškauskas For China is not enough to conquer all of the Far East and Asia’s neighbors. According to the Russian journal Vlast, China seeks to consolidate its influence in the countries which are considered by Mo...
Actually he said you All Suck
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Not just the EU: Using language recalling German tabloid depictions of "lazy Greeks", the chairman of China's sovereign wealth fund has said the EU as a whole suffers from "sloth" and "indolence."Ah! No! It’s that slow food sort of quality of life...
EU-China relations in times of crisis
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By Sebastian Bersick, Associate Professor of International Relations at Fudan University, Shanghai The European Union does not take its relations with Beijing seriously enough, as evidenced by the unilateral postponement of the 14t...
China is one of the three pillars of the global economy together with the USA and the EU
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This was a very prescient piece in the Guardian by Economics Editor Larry Elliott giving his take on the G20 summit, specifically in relation to China. China is fast becoming a major power in the world, even a super power, … Continue reading &#...
Will China Bail Out Europe?
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Not if this man has anything to say about it:"If you look at the troubles which happened in European countries, this is purely because of the accumulated troubles of the worn out welfare society. I think the labour laws are outdated. The labour laws...
Eurozone is looking for a rescue deal in China
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Is it a good idea? Questions: 1. We do not know much about the future deal (perhaps there will be no deal), but in general do you see any reasons why we should be worry about the increasing influence of China in Europe also in the context of the Euro...
Money And Power And Military Might
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video October 10, 2011: While some of China's neighbors (Vietnam, India and South Korea) are nervous about reforms in the Chinese Army, all the neighbors are alarmed at the increasing size and assertiveness of the Chinese Navy. W...
"When China Rules the World" - MCF Interview Martin Jacques
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26 September 2011 - BrusselsThe Madariaga-College of Europe Foundation sat down with Martin Jacques, author of "When China Rules the World: the Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World", for an exclusive interview on China's rise...
Smiley China
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I have spent the past two weeks travelling around China, including Shanghai and Chongqing, with my ECFR colleagues Mark Leonard and Alice Richard. In Chongqing we went out to eat the local hot pot;Read more…...
Winds Of Change Blowing From China, Where Else?
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China may not be where cutting edge research takes place or innovative technologies emerge, and Chinese manufacturers are not usually the first to develop and market new products. But once they identify a product as globally marketable, Chinese manuf...
Can the euro or Chinese renminbi ever rival the dollar?
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As the US economy declines, so too does the dominance of the dollar – will the euro of the Chinese renminbi fill the void as a new global reserve currency, asks Dean Carroll...
If WW III breaks out tomorrow/or what happens if China decides to get hold of Russian Siberia and Far East?
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By Vadim Volovoj, expert of the Centre for Geopolitical Studies china-army.jpg china-army.jpg Today military actions...
Darn Them Piggies! Pork Prices & the Inflation Outlook for China
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It was pretty clear to me on a recent visit that China has become one of the biggest global markets for Angry Birds. The game was everywhere and around 100 million Chinese downloads are expected this year. It made me wonder if this was somehow linked...
Help from China
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The Chinese haven't said no but remain cautious:China already has apparently poured tens of billions of dollars worth of foreign reserves into euro-denominated investments this year. But Chinese officials are still cautious about taking big risks wit...
New major American study: The US should not appease China by sacrificing Taiwan
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A new study sends a clear message to president Obama: The US should sell Taiwan the F-16 fighters it has requested:“However frightening or seductive China is, appeasing it by sacrificing Taiwan would not be good policy,” said Nancy Bernkopf...
The Scramble For Europe
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A recent paper by François Godement and Jona Parello-Plesner describes in rather startling terms how China is “buying” up Europe. According to the authors, the main components of this new wave of Chinese activity are: 1) China’s p...
New era for Sino-Russian ties
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China and Russia deepened their strategic relationship on Thursday by vowing to support each other on core security issues. READ MORE...
US - China talks: Who holds the chips?
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Top US and Chinese officials will be meeting for two days in Washington (9-10 May, see BBC News report).Among other issues, the WSJ reports that the U.S. will press China to hasten yuan's rise. The grip that China has on the US, eg via its holdings o...
China, Kazakhstan tightly connected by both friendship and strong strategic partnership - Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi
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The three-day state visit of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev to China at the invitation of Chinese President Hu Jintao completed. READ MORE...
Renewables and the Recession
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The growth of renewables slowed in the North and CO2 emissions dropped, but China (and the rest of Asia) managed to compensate for both. Read more over at Future Challenges.
South West MEP celebrates as Commission agrees Chinese sky lanterns are unsafe
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On the eve of the Chinese New Year, South West MEP Julie Girling has a reason to celebrate this week after the European Commission accepted the Chinese sky lanterns often used as part of the festivities pose a safety risk and suggested they could be...
China First Everywhere
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In 2009 China has thrown Germany from the pinnacle of the world’s biggest exporter of goods. That was an overdue record. Counting only German exports to non-EU countries, China had already been the no 1 exporting country for many years. Humanity mu...
Delinking geopolitics and economics: Korea's FTAs and China
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South Korea dominated the world news in the final weeks of 2010. As the dark columns of smoke rose to the sky over Yeonpyeong, they reminded the world of the adjourned peace on the peninsula, impeded by predictable erraticism of North Korea. These ne...
The Welfare Society Tibetan Chamber of Commerce
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At the invitation of Henri Malosse, President of the Employers Group, I spoke this morning to a visiting delegation from the Welfare Society Tibetan Chamber of Commerce (www.tibetancc.org). In characteristically humble manner, the Chairman of the Ch...
Of state visits and public diplomacy…
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Is soft power enhanced by state visits in this day and age, or are these official events a liability for more significant forms of influence in this day and age? One can wonder indeed about this, asRead more…...
"China’s War on Inequality" by Fan Gang
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A major new target in the “Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development” that China just unveiled is to boost the growth rate for household (disposable) income so that it equals the growth rate of the country’s GDP. The reason is simple:...
China’s Peaceful Rise?
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WASHINGTON — What ever happened to China’s “peaceful rise”? It is certainly true that the emergence of other great powers in history was not peaceful. But China promised to be different. According to its leaders and many foreign exp...
The Nobel Peace Prize
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The following interview with the Global Times took place on 15 0ctober, bit was not published: 1. Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo this year. What’s your comment on the decision of Nobel committee? Can the award be inter...
China As A Superpower
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Given its rapid and successful development, there can be no doubt that the People’s Republic of China will become one of the dominant global powers of the twenty-first century. Indeed, despite the massive problems that the country is confrontin...
This Nobel prize was bold and right – but hits China's most sensitive nerve | Timothy Garton Ash
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We can honour Liu and the great achievements of the Chinese state. Let real dialogue about universal values continueNorway's Nobel peace prize committee has done the right thing in awarding this year's prize to Liu Xiaobo. The furious reaction o...
China’s Peaceful Rise?
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WASHINGTON — What ever happened to China’s “peaceful rise”? It is certainly true that the emergence of other great powers in history was not peaceful. But China promised to be different. According to its leaders and many foreign exp...
China’s Peaceful Rise?
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WASHINGTON — What ever happened to China’s “peaceful rise”? It is certainly true that the emergence of other great powers in history was not peaceful. But China promised to be different. According to its leaders and many foreign exp...
If China is acting in its own interests, why is it helping out Greece?
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Trichet, makes the rather obvious point that China is acting in its own interests. He didn't think they would act out of charity did he?But that leaves open the question, flagged up here and mentioned very briefly in one of the Sunday papers that Chi...
EU and USA must wake up to the competition from Chinese solar and wind industries
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Within just five years China has established itself as the dominant world manufacturer of solar panels and wind turbines. In 2010, it looks poised to account for about half of global production for what are the key market segments of renewable energi...
Morning Brief (3-9)
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Ashton meets Chinese Premier and Foreign Minister on her China trip. AFP reports: EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton urged China Thursday to create a better investment environment for European businesses and maintain a joint stand on the Irania...
Democracy in China
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Academic papers and books on democracy continue to proliferate. Mainstream western opinion supports views such as: • Rapid economic development quickens democratisation. • The liberal democratic path is the only sustainable route to modernity...
China South Sea boiling up
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Problems relating to the South China Sea have been bubbling below the surface for a long time. However, the public entry of the United States into the arena has brought these problems to the surface. The South China Sea is now being spoken about in...
BLOG China South Sea boiling up
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Problems relating to the South China Sea have been bubbling below the surface for a long time. However, the public entry of the United States into the arena has brought these problems to the surface. The South China Sea is now being spoken about in...
Is the Europe-China love affair in trouble?
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Is the love affair between China and Europe in trouble? At the EU pavilion in Shanghai, the sun is shining on the alliance between the EU and the Middle Kingdom. The European Union shares a pavilion with Belgium at the 2010 World Expo. Under...
Recommendations to improve China-EU relations
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The Chinese Mission to the EU organized a workshop on China-EU relations on 17 June 2010. The following recommendations are supported by the Europeans present at the worshop, in the light of the discussions between them and representatives of...
In Shanghai, a changed world
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A tour around the World Expo shows features of a new reality Thirty years after the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese authorities promote the notion of ‘better city – better life” at the World Expo in Shanghai, and a fake ‘Expo passport’...
Is China being beastly to foreign investors?
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by Charles GrantWhen I visited China a year ago, I was struck by the strong feeling among many foreign firms there that the business environment was getting tougher. Western businessmen complained, in particular, about discrimination against foreigne...
On the web: China at home and abroad, Cameron’s foreign policy, and sustainable development…
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- Over at The Diplomat, Thomas Wright explores how China’s self-confidence in initial relations with the Obama administration may prove the “catalyst for a more competitive – and geopolitically savvy – US multilateralism.” Der Spieg...
On the web: the UK Strategic Defence and Security Review, Russia-China-US relations, and India’s international outlook…
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- Writing in The World Today, General Tim Cross and Brigadier Nigel Hall examine the prospects of the UK’s Strategic Defence and Security Review, suggesting that any reforms it ushers in “must give operational reality to the new concept of co...
China and USA must raise fossil energy prices to fight C02 emissions
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Without a radical change of energy policy by the two major emitter countries of green house gases Humanity will not succeed in reducing C02 emissions to the levels required to stabilise the global climate. Both countries squander energy in ways uni...
China presses ahead with Pakistan nuclear deal – and contemplates U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan
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In Beijing last week to catch up with Chinese security experts on Afghanistan and Pakistan, with two issues the main focus. Having talked on-and-off with people there about the Chashma-3 and 4 deal since it was first announced, this was the first oc...
You can’t expect much from a journalist at that level
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Alex Perry, an Africa correspondent Africa bureau chief for Time magazine, writes on China’s involvement in Africa. In the process, he describes the DRC as a “sucking vortex”, citing the corrupt rule of Mobutu Sese Seko. Julie Holla...
Chinese workers don’t need Milne’s “support”
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The Chinese working class, super-exploited by the standards we in the West are used to – are on the march. There have been militant strikes recently at the Sino-Japanese Honda Lock plant in Zhongshan, the Japanese-owned Brother Industries in Xi...
China: internal revaluation from below
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Geoff Dyer of the FT says that Chinese workers are demanding more money, and that’s nothing but a good thing - there’s even some demographics in there, if you like that sort of thing. Instead, the salary hikes in Guangdong this week symbo...
A worrying American view of China
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The German Marshall Fund of the US and The Centre Asie Ifri, held a joint seminar on 15 June on “Responding to China’s Rise: Balancing Hard and Soft Power”. The presentation by Gary Schmitt of the American Enterprise Institute was very di...
EU-China-Africa relations
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BICCS (Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies invited 30 participants from 15 European institutes to participate in an intensive workshop, on 17-19 May, about China’s response to security challenges in Africa. The aim of this meeting was...
China in check? The limits to Beijing’s assertiveness
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BEIJING – After a rough start to the year, last week’s U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue — the mammoth biannual consultation led by Secretaries Hillary Clinton and Timothy Geithner — capped off a three-month period t...
Testimony by H. Lee-Makiyama to the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the European Parliament
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Statement delivered by Hosuk Lee-Makiyama to the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the European Parliament on the June 2nd, 2010...
China-US Strategic & Economic Dialogue: rhetoric or action?
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The China-EU Strategic and Economic Dialogue (SED), held in Beijing on 24-25 May, brought a pack of high-ranking officials on both sides. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, accompanied by 16 cabinet secret...
Lone Swordsman, Lumbering Simian, Confident Manufacturer: In Talks, U.S. Meets Three Chinas
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BEIJING – The 798 Art District, a trendy artists’ neighborhood on Beijing’s outskirts, far removed from the resplendence of the Great Wall and Forbidden City, offers visitors some curious insights into contemporary China. In the...
China is fighting against Climate Change, but not enough
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Since the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference China is being widely seen as the spoiler of international efforts to cope with climate change. Indeed, in Copenhagen it has not been very helpful. It has snubbed the USA and the EU by its refusa...
