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May 15, 2008
| Author: | Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations |
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Testimony
See more in United States, China, Congress
May 15, 2008
| Authors: | Jerome A. Cohen, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Asia Studies Eva Pils |
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Article
Far Eastern Economic Review
Jerome A. Cohen and Eva Pils use the case of Hu Jia, 34—a Chinese commentator and activist convicted of undermining the State’s power—to highlight the serious flaws of the Chinese legal system.
See more in China, Democracy and Human Rights
May 12, 2008
Podcast
Republican Mitt Romney says Olympic sponsors are very concerned about their brand images and are hoping China will take some action to reassure the world.
See more in China
May 7, 2008
Mitt Romney interviewed by Jayshree Bajoria, Staff Writer
Interview
Mitt Romney, president and CEO of the organizing committee for the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002, says China should take “symbolic action” to let the world know it is willing to listen to their concerns about its human rights record.
See more in China, Democracy and Human Rights, Human Rights, Society and Culture
May 5, 2008
| Author: | Kishore Mahbubani |
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Must Read
Kishore Mahbubani, dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, writes in an essay that the Chinese view on the protests over Tibet and the Olympic torch is different from that of western leaders. The reality is that virtually all of the Chinese believe that the Western protests have had little to do with human rights, Tibet or Darfur. "Instead, the Chinese think, the West's real motivation is to deny China the triumph it deserves for its enormous successes."
See more in China, Sovereignty
April 25, 2008
Podcast
A preview of world events in the coming week from CFR.org and The Economist.
See more in China, Economics, Climate Change
April 23, 2008
| Speakers: | Eberhard Sandschneider, Otto Wolff Director of the Research Institute, German Council on Foreign Relations Harry Harding, University Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University Thomas Gomart, Director, Russia/Newly Independent States Center, French Institute of International Relations Angela E. Stent, Professor and Director, Center For Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies, Georgetown University |
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Transcript
See more in China, Russian Fed.
April 23, 2008
| Author: | Jayshree Bajoria, Staff Writer |
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Backgrounder
Nationalism in China, surging amid protests over Beijing's rule in Tibet, increasingly fills the role Maoism played before China embraced capitalism.
See more in China, Nationalism
April 23, 2008
Edward Friedman, Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
Edward Friedman, an expert on Chinese nationalism, says China’s ethnic Han majority views minorities like Tibetans and Uighurs as "people who should be incorporated into the larger Chinese state."
See more in China, Taiwan, East Asia, Minorities, Diversity and Foreign Policy, Nationalism
April 16, 2008
| Author: | Jayshree Bajoria, Staff Writer |
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Backgrounder
China has a range of options for its citizens to access justice, but experts say none of them are particularly effective.
See more in China, Nation Building
Stephen Flynn’s new book argues that building national resiliency at home is as important as combating terrorism abroad.
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Responsibility to Protect (5/15): Stewart Patrick urges the U.S., Britain, and France to submit a U.N. resolution insisting on immediate humanitarian access in Burma, in the Baltimore Sun.
Global Health (5/14): Michael Gerson urges the Senate to reauthorize PEPFAR, in the Washington Post.
Iraq War (5/13): Max Boot analyzes the habit of U.S. generals passing the buck when it comes to the failures in Iraq, in the Washington Post.
Burma (5/13): Ivo Daalder and Paul Stares argue that the United Nations must invoke its “responsibility to protect” clause and intervene in Burma, in the Boston Globe.
Mideast (5/13): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. to focus its efforts on restoring Israeli-Syrian negotiations, in Newsweek.
U.S. Presidential Election (5/9): Michael Gerson looks at the sticking points of the “Obama narrative,” in the Washington Post.
Iraq (5/8): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. and Iraqi governments not to exclude Muqtada al-Sadr from the political process, in The National.
Climate change poses threats to national security in a number of ways. In this report, sponsored by the Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Joshua W. Busby offers specific recommendations for confronting this important issue, including a list of "no-regrets" policies.
This report, by International Affairs Fellow Michelle D. Gavin and sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, surveys the current situation in Zimbabwe and proposes steps that can increase the likelihood that regime change, when it comes, will bring constructive reform instead of conflict and state collapse.
Complete list of Council Special Reports.
In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
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