1. Is Shadow Banking China’s Subprime Mortgages?

    China’s banking system is reaching high highs, but has the potential to see very low lows. On a high note, [...]

  2. China’s Leaders Abroad; What the First Visits Tell Us

    The new Chinese leadership took office in early March. In the two months since, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Vice President [...]

  3. No Strings Attached? Evaluating China’s Trade Relations Abroad

    “The champion of the developing world” has become a common reference to describe China over the last decade. China is [...]

  4. Australia’s China Challenge

    In 2009, the Rudd government in Australia issued the first White Paper on Defense for almost a decade. The line [...]

  5. Solving the Northeast Asia Security Dilemma

    Northeast Asia is one of the most complex, fragile regions in the global security landscape. The regional security dilemma is [...]

  6. A Global Economic Order with Chinese Characteristics

    Although much of the current attention on China has focused on domestic and regional issues, recent days have offered a [...]

  7. China’s Economy: Stuck in Second Place?

    Every week, The Diplomat’s editorial team scours the web to find the best material on all things China. From Beijing’s relations [...]

  8. The Thinking Behind Beijing’s Israeli-Palestinian Peace Plan

    Xi Jinping's sudden announcement that China has a peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seemed to come out of left [...]

  9. China Taking Action Against North Korea?

    Over the last several weeks, various pundits and scholars — including The Diplomat's own contributors — have considered China's complex [...]

  10. China: Middle East Peace Broker?

    On Sunday Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will fly into China for a two-day state visit at the invitation of Xi Jinping, [...]