Introduction Although he is presented as a maverick by the western media, the artist-activist Ai Weiwei is really just representative of the culminating frustrations of Chinese intellectuals concerning personal expression in China. Soon after the Chinese Communist Party rose to power in 1949, all artistic movements were subsumed by the soviet socialist style. By the [...]

China’s energy plans have always been a function of demand and technological innovation, which are both growing rapidly in the country. But the recent tragedy at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan has introduced a new variable into China’s energy-planning function: safety. This paper provides a survey of the safety standards of China’s current nuclear power plants and the viability of the various alternatives.

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.

In Social States, Alastair Iain Johnston sets out to investigate two related questions: 1) whether realpolitik state preferences and practices are a function of material conditions or realpolitik norms (198) and 2) why Chinese foreign policymakers, in a threateningly “unipolar” environment of [...]

Since the early 20th century American policy makers, engrossed by their preconceived notions of China and blinded by the powerful China Lobby, have failed to accurately assess developments in China [...]

As prominent political scientists often state, a country’s foreign policy is strongly linked to its domestic policy. Taking this simple idea, no other crisis in the history of the world complicates and yet reinforces it much like the current Taiwan Crisis [...]

A decades old question of democratization in China has been revived by its resurgence as a world power under the non-democratic leadership of the CCP [...]

The China International Famine Relief Commission (CIFRC) stands out in history as an institution that was decades ahead of its time [...]

Post-Mao China experienced unprecedented improvements in economic and social conditions: the standard of living drastically improved and the Chinese people now had open access to foreign markets [...]