Deprived of state support and squeezed between domestic and multinational giants, few Chinese private enterprises can compete internationally… While it is no match for China’s rate of growth at the macrolevel, India has managed to produce many more private enterprises that are competitive in the international market.

China has shown that it is willing to adapt its previous attitude towards nonintervention issues and use its diplomatic relations with problematic regimes to convince them to be more cooperative with the UN. Looking forward, we can expect China to continue to increase its presence in the Security Council and its role in the international community.

The decision to censor vague references in the Obama Inaugural address reveals the insecurities of the CCP leadership. At a time when America was at her weakest vis-à-vis China, when her democratic system seems too inefficient to deal with the enormity of the challenge, Chinese leaders did not find the courage to let the Chinese public decide the merit of Obama’s words. While Obama is calling for the people to choose hope over fear, the CCP fears its own people.

China’s recent naval military build-up has aroused much concern among certain groups of politicians and analysts, who see this build-up as a threat to the United States’ historic hegemonic position in Asia, with the Chinese Navy possibly trying to reduce the US Navy’s influence in Asian waters. How should the US government respond to this build-up?

Only by avoiding generalisations about ‘Africa’ and ‘China’ and conducting careful, critical, analytical and reflective micro-perspective field researches in each country, can we capture the history and intricate contemporary complexity dynamics of facts on the ground regarding how Chinese investments and Chinese migrants interact with and can coexist with Africans.

New York City is the skyline of my past, and Hong Kong is the skyline of the present. But I live in Shanghai, which is the skyline of the very near future. It’s tell-tale that the company I own is in Hong Kong, but I live and work in Shanghai. Shanghai is where the money is now, but for me Hong Kong has all the soul.

This survey was commissioned by the National Image and Public Diplomacy Research Team at the Arts and Humanities Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and carried out by the Center for Survey Research, Indiana University during June and July 2010. 810 valid responses were collected.

For the moment, the US remains the most powerful actor with the ability to shape the rules, norms, and institutions of the international system. Beijing will act as a responsible stakeholder only in an international system which it believes to be just and equitable. Thus, whether or not China will be a responsible stakeholder in the future depends largely on how the US chooses to define the system today.

The Chinese Communist Party’s clumsy handling of censorship and freedom of expression will negatively impact both its strategic relationships abroad and its ability to juggle domestic political issues.

For the generation of youths who grew up under the One-Child Policy, life harbors promise, and most hope that their futures will follow an upward trajectory. As the SACOM report analyzes, the younger workers are vulnerable to an identity crisis, in which they neither belong entirely in the city nor conceptualize themselves as part of the countryside.