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A Global Imperative
Report outlines a progressive approach to U.S.-China relations in the 21st century.Other East Asia Features
June 16, 2009
Statement by Professor Pan Jiahua
Pan Jiahua of the Research Centre for Sustainable Development at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences responds to statements by Sen. F. James. Sensenbrenner (R-WI).
June 16, 2009
Sensenbrenner Distorts Climate Facts
Chinese economist Pan Jiahua claims in an exclusive interview that the way Sensenbrenner abused his statements is unethical, write Andrew Light and Julian L. Wong.
June 4, 2009
Moving Forward Together on Climate Change
Climate Envoy Todd Stern discusses at a CAP event his upcoming trip to China, and why the United States and China must work together on global warming.
June 3, 2009
Cooperating with China in Latin America
The United States should find ways to turn China’s growing presence in Latin America and the Caribbean into an opportunity, writes Stephanie Miller.
June 3, 2009
Climate Progress in China
Julian Wong and Andrew Light detail China's recent investments in clean energy and efficiency.
June 3, 2009
What Does a Smaller World Mean for Human Rights?
Twenty years after Tiananmen Square, promoting individual freedom in China is still a challenge, write Nina Hachigian and Bill Schulz.
June 2, 2009
North Korea and the Chinese Giant
North Korea’s nuclear testing threatens regional stability, and the Chinese are furious. Now it’s up to the Obama administration to balance solutions with China, writes Winny Chen.
May 4, 2009
Ask the Expert: China, the United States, and the Economic Crisis
Winny Chen discusses China's response to the economic crisis and how it can benefit the United States.
April 23, 2009
The Other Big Stimulus
China is serious about spending its way through the global economic downturn, observes Winny Chen. This is good news for the global economy.
April 20, 2009
We Must Seize the Energy Opportunity or Slip Further Behind
Ben Furnas gives a primer on the United States' global competition in green technology investments.
April 8, 2009
Seeking Pathways for U.S.-China Cooperation on Energy and Climate Change
In a speech in China last week, John Podesta proposed seeking new pathways for collaboration between the United States and China to solve the twin challenges of energy security and climate change.
April 1, 2009
Should We Be Grateful to China for Buying U.S. Treasuries?
Scott Lilly discusses the U.S.-China trade imbalance, why China's investment strategies are unsustainable, and what we should expect in the future.
February 25, 2009
Why Hillary Clinton Got It Right on China
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's recent comments about human rights in China have dismayed many human rights activists. Might they be overreacting? "Successive [U.S.] administrations and Chinese governments have been poised back and forth on these issues, and we have to continue to press them. But our pressing on those issues can't interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis, and the security crisis" the secretary told reporters. On what grounds could a responsible observer -- even one devoted to human rights, like myself -- disagree with those observations?
February 19, 2009
Clinton must press China on rights
When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton touches down in Beijing this week she will face an authoritarian Chinese government wringing their hands over a remarkably brazen online petition for human rights and an end to autocratic rule that is circulating among its citizens.
February 10, 2009
A To-Do List for Clinton's China Trip
The secretary of State should push for Beijing's help on the economy, nuclear proliferation, climate change, and pandemic disease, writes Nina Hachigian.
January 30, 2009
Pushing for Improved Human Rights in China
Yesterday the Center for American Progress convened a panel to discuss a new report by William Schulz on how the United States can promote human rights in China.
January 29, 2009
Strategic Persistence
Report from William Schulz details how the United States can work to help improve human rights in China.
January 29, 2009
Ask the Expert: Working with China on Human Rights
William Schulz on his new report and how and why we should promote human rights in China.
January 28, 2009
The Importance of U.S.-China Relations
Amid a global economic downturn, the United States and China need to embrace common causes to speed sustainable international economic growth, write Winny Chen and Nina Hachigian.
January 13, 2009
WHO Can Stop an Epidemic
The WHO is an encouraging, and too rare, example of countries getting over their differences to solve a common problem. The WHO is underfunded and needs reform, but it stands between us and some lethal future pandemic, writes Nina Hachigian.
December 10, 2008
Maintaining a Dialogue in Tough Economic Times
Winny Chen takes a look at the Strategic Economic Dialogue between the United States and China and offers suggestions for the incoming administration.
November 12, 2008
China Steps Up Prior to Group of 20 Meeting
China enters this week’s G20 with cash in had and poised to become a strong player in global policymaking, write Nina Hachigian, Sabina Dewan, and Winny Chen.
September 30, 2008
China's Deadly Investments
Tomorrow, China assumes the Presidency of the U.N. Security Council, a position that it last held in July 2007 when it led the authorization of a U.N. peacekeeping force for Darfur. At that time, Beijing appeared to be responding to a global campaign by activists, in advance of the Olympics, to shame China into using its influence to address human rights crises in locales in which it has significant economic investments. But China's actions have belied its rhetoric, and it has continued to protect its favorite deadly dictators in places like Darfur, Burma, and Zimbabwe. A revised strategy must put greater focus on China's wallet.
September 12, 2008
Getting China Right
With the Olympics behind us, and the U.S. elections ahead, we are entering a potentially challenging time for U.S.-China relations. Given the numerous serious policy differences between the United States and China—on human rights, trade and currency, and Sudan, to name a few—getting China right from day one will be a key challenge for the next U.S. administration.
August 15, 2008
Establishing U.S.-China Relations
A new report puts energy and environment at the center of a new administration’s focus on the United States and China.
August 11, 2008
Blowback
China’s approach to doing business with despots is remarkably ad hoc, commodity-driven, and short-sighted.
August 8, 2008
Successful Bid, then Second Thoughts
"John, it was destiny." Those were the words spoken to me by a young staffer to the Beijing Olympic bid as we walked in Moscow's Gorky Park the day after the membership of the International Olympic Committee had voted to give the 2008 Summer Olympics to China. We had worked together as part of the public relations team supporting the bid. A recent college graduate, I had innocently remarked how surprised I was the bid had succeeded. My walking partner then instructed me in the power of Chinese nationalism and patience. It was part of the education in international politics and the Chinese worldview I received working for the Beijing bid.
August 7, 2008
Climate War Games
Tackling climate change will require the U.S. and China to move beyond their historic impasse on reducing emissions, explain Hachigian and Sussman.
August 4, 2008
Cleaning Up for the Olympics
Bob Sussman on the severity of China's pollution problem, what it's doing on pollution and global warming, and how the United States can help.
May 14, 2008
The Right Way to Pressure Beijing
Human rights groups are rightly outraged about China’s abysmal record. But it is foolhardy to treat a rising superpower like a tin-pot dictatorship.
May 2, 2008
Warming Ties
Robust U.S.-Sino cooperation must be an integral part of any successful energy and climate strategy in the 21st century, write Peter Ogden and Matt Rogier.
April 29, 2008
The Right Way to Pressure Beijing
When the U.S. Congress recently passed a resolution calling on Beijing to end its repression of dissent in Tibet and open a dialogue with the Dalai Lama, a Chinese spokesperson declared that the resolution had “seriously hurt the feelings of the Chinese people.” Nor was this the first time the Chinese had expressed emotional distress at some political gesture. Everyone from the Icelandic singer Björk, who shouted “Tibet! Tibet!” at the end of a concert in Shanghai, to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who met with the Dalai Lama in Ottawa, has been accused of hurting the feelings of the Chinese. Indeed, the Chinese might be the only people who regard the rantings of CNN’s Jack Cafferty, who referred to the Chinese government as “goons and thugs,” as worth taking seriously. Nerves this sensitive bespeak either a severe case of adolescent angst or a revealing insight into national character, or both. It is hard to imagine Vladimir Putin or Robert Mugabe, or George W. Bush for that matter, confessing to having hurt feelings about anything, much less the kind of symbolic ephemera that seem to regularly rile the Chinese.
April 28, 2008
Nationalism v. International Protest
Winny Chen on what we should expect when the Olympic torch arrives in China? And what China and the United States can do in the lead-up to the Olympics.
April 17, 2008
Resist the Attempt to Hold the Olympics Hostage
The first big domino fell last week in the grassroots movement in Europe and America calling for a boycott the Beijing Olympics over China's human-rights record. Britain's prime minister, Gordon Brown, has announced he would not attend the Opening Ceremonies. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton quickly issued a statement praising his decision and calling on President Bush to stay away, too. Meanwhile, the Olympic torch was in San Francisco, ducking into dark warehouses and fleeing down back alleys to evade protesters.
April 16, 2008
Olympian Rhetoric: Propaganda Traps China’s Leaders
Soaring promises to the Chinese people of global prestige from the Olympic games now has the nation’s authoritarian leadership caught in a web of its own making.
March 5, 2008
Bringing Everyone to the Table: Climate Change, Developing Countries and Global Trade
Developed and developing nations can create a global trading system that delivers prosperity and a cleaner planet, says Jake Caldwell.
December 22, 2007
Embrace China
A good relationship with a growing China is an opportunity America can't afford to pass up, writes Nina Hachigian.
December 14, 2007
US looks on as Malaysia wobbles
Improved relations with this key Muslim ally could be beneficial for the United States, writes Tony Wilson in the Asia Times.
July 12, 2007
China's Proliferation Policies and Practices: Testimony of Joseph Cirincione
Senior CAP Fellow Joseph Cirincione testifies on China's proliferation and the impact of trade policy on defense industries in the U.S. and China.
June 1, 2007
China's Energy Challenge
March 23, 2007
The Value of a Unified U.N. Security Council
Spencer Boyer explains the negotiations that led to important U.N. Security Council resolutions on the nuclear crises in North Korea and Iran.
March 20, 2007
We Got Tubed—Again
March 11, 2007
Is the North Korea Deal Worth Celebrating?
February 23, 2007
Pragmatism Trumps Ideology on North Korea
The deal cut with North Korea is only a first step toward a grander bargain that will require White House pragmatists to win out over the ideologues.
February 13, 2007
North Korean Pressure Points
Joe Cirincione details the six factors that led to a nuclear deal with North Korea--and that could ensure its implementation.
January 30, 2007
Cleaning up China: Opportunities Beckon for U.S. Businesses
Treasury Secretary Paulson goes before Congress to explain current Sino-U.S. economic relations. Someone should ask him about promoting green opportunities for U.S. companies.
January 18, 2007
Breakthrough in Sight: U.S. Talks with North Korea Get Serious
Reversing course, Bush administration tries direct negotiations with Pyongyang to curb North Korea's nuclear weapons program. It's about time.
December 19, 2006
Back Into the Black: Profiting on a Green China
Ogden and McDonough note that the U.S.-China economic dialogue would give the White House a chance to prove its commitment to clean energy.
November 20, 2006
The Ill-fated Vietnam Trade Bill
The United States must recommit to a process-oriented, positive, and progressive policy that promotes trade for the common good.
November 17, 2006