US, China in race for tech supremacy
In the race for computing superiority, the United States is in locked battle with China, says Dan Lyons in The Daily Beast. The Chinese are giving this contest everything they have, Lyons says, to the...
View ArticleCommunist regime will ultimately fail
“Not long ago,” says Gordon G. Chang in Foreign Policy, “everything was going well for the mandarins in Beijing. Now, nothing is. So, yes, my prediction was wrong. Instead of 2011, the mighty Communist...
View ArticleChina’s system best suited for space
Writing the obituary on U.S.-manned space travel, Jeffery Kluger, in Time, says a fluctuating democracy can’t fund large-scale space exploration, unlike China, with its one party system, which is...
View ArticleTo boycott, or not to boycott?
Would buyers be willing to go on a strike against Apple to get it to require its suppliers to give workers a safe place to work and other reasonable working conditions? That’s the question posed by...
View ArticleWorry about failure, not success of giant
The conventional wisdom on China, like the thinking on the old Soviet Union, is wrong, says Minxin Pei in Foreign Policy. Most people are preoccupied about what they see as China’s inevitable rise. Pei...
View ArticleNuclear issues remain unresolved
In Foreign Policy, Jeffrey Lewis addresses relations between China and the United States, calling nuclear weapons “the fifty-megaton elephant in the room.” China and the United States are not helping...
View ArticleChina’s currency policy benefits U.S.
We shouldn’t worry about Chinese currency policy, says Matthew Yglesias in Slate. To keep its goods under-priced relative to American-made goods, China must buy U.S. government bonds, which puts it at...
View ArticleChina is key to unified Korea
If America could assuage “China’s concerns about a reunified Korea” by pledging never to station U.S. “troops on what is now North Korean soil,” Beijing might be convinced “to cut North Korea loose,”...
View ArticleChina must play by rules of capitalism
“By buying companies, exploiting natural resources, building infrastructure and giving loans all over the world, China is pursuing a soft but unstoppable form of economic domination,” say Heriberto...
View ArticleChina’s stinginess backfires
A history of conflict with the Philippines could explain Beijing’s initial pledge of $100,000 in disaster relief for typhoon victims, says Bruce Einhorn in Bloomberg Businessweek. But the offer...
View ArticleEvidence shows China’s hacking
In indicting five Chinese military officers for hacking into American computer networks, the Obama administation has provided irrefutable evidence that China has been stealing government and business...
View ArticleChina must atone for its past
China has transformed itself into a global superpower, but until its leaders “offer a public accounting or expression of regret” for killing hundreds of unarmed protestors in Tiananmen Square 25 years...
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By agreeing to new reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the U.S. and China have elevated the importance of international climate cooperation and demonstrated a willingness to make economic...
View ArticleChina fuels panic in its stock markets
China’s efforts to prevent stock market crashes backfired, because the circuit breakers it implemented to halt trading if shares plummeted spooked investors who scrambled to dump shares before trading...
View ArticleChina won’t have U.S. to kick around
President-elect Donald Trump’s phone call to Taiwan’s president was a brilliant, calculated move to show Beijing that its leaders are “dealing with a different kind of president — an outsider who will...
View ArticleTrump’s dangerous approach abroad
Philip Gordon, a former State Department official, argues in the June issue of Foreign Affairs that President Trump’s “erratic style and confrontational policies” as applied to U.S. foreign policy,...
View ArticleLong story short
We weigh in on USDA’s new rules on chicken exports to and imports from China, Mariano Rivera, and 49 cent stamps. Chicken a la where? Only a global economy could have resulted in the Rube...
View ArticleSit and talk to save the world
It’s time the United States begin a real conversation with Russia and China in regard to saving the world. I suspect we shouldn’t invite other interested parties to our talks as, surely, the talks...
View ArticleOvertures to Cuba make much sense
A few decades ago, my husband and I visited Canada and were intrigued to find items for sale that were made in China. At the time, the big scare word was “communist;” no product made in any of those...
View ArticleTPP offers worldwide economic expansion
Now that Congress has the text for the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and more Asian countries are likely to join, the United States should encourage China to become a member. President...
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