RAND provides a comparative assessment between the progress China and India are likely to make by 2025 in the domains of demography, macroeconomics, science and technology, and defense spending and procurement.

Scott A. Snyder and See-won Byun review the recent history of China-Korea relations.

This annual report to Congress by the Ofice of the Secretary of Defense on China's military power was released in September 2011.

Joshua Kurlantzick explores Deng Xiaoping's legacy in his review of Ezra Vogel's Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China and Henry Kissinger's On China.

Jerome A. Cohen and Yu Han discuss the recent release of the draft comprehensive revision of China's Criminal Procedure Law (CPL).

CFR scholars provide policy options for preventing a major crisis in the territories immediately adjacent to China: North Korea, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Central Asia.

Is China poised to take over from the United States as the world's leading economy?

Sure, China's economic growth has been unprecedented, even miraculous. But the country is unlikely to keep up its breakneck pace.

Scott Snyder reviews Getting the Triangle Straight: Managing China-Japan-U.S. Relations, edited by Gerald Curtis, Ryosei Kokubun, and Wang Jisi.

Andrew S. Erickson and Gabe Collins suggest the oft-cited threats to America's preeminence—issues from pension costs, to healthcare dilemmas, to military expenditures—may also hinder China's ability to avoid an “S-shaped growth slowdown.”

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. allays concerns about China's growing power and argues that  competition will improve America's standing rather than diminish it, in this opinion piece for the New York Times.

The Chinese government released this white paper on September 6, 2011. It discusses China's development policies, security, and foreign policy.

Evan A. Feigenbaum argues that China's capital-intensive, export-oriented approach is delivering diminishing returns and threatens to become a major political vulnerability for the Chinese government.

Joshua Kurlantzick states, “China, other Asian nations, and the United States remain unprepared for Myanmar to spark a refugee crisis, a large-scale conflict along its borders — or even a nuclear breakout.”

Yanzhong Huang discusses the impact of chronic, noncommunicable disease on development in the BRICS nations.

Jerome A. Cohen and Mizuki Koshimoto ask, "Has Japan found the best way for ordinary citizens to take part in criminal cases?"

As Vice President Joseph Biden begins a visit to China, analysts say both the United States and China will have to restructure their economies to lessen global imbalances and strengthen recovery.

Nicholas Consonery, Evan A. Feigenbaum, Damien Ma, Michael Meidan, and Henry Hoyle argue that China's capital-intensive, export-oriented growth model is delivering diminishing returns and threatens to become a major political vulnerability for the government, and China's leaders must overcome political restraints to implement a comprehensive and ambitious rebalancing agenda.

CFR's Director of Studies James Lindsay and Director of the International Institutions and CFR.org Editor Robert McMahon preview major world events in the week ahead.

In this week's podcast: Iowa Republicans cast their ballots in the Ames Straw poll; Vice President Joe Biden visits Asia; The trial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak resumes in Cairo; Germany marks the 50th anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall.

Elizabeth Economy argues that China's energy challenges show no signs of abating while Chinese leaders are working feverishly, if imperfectly, to meet them.