China, What's Next?

China has made dramatic economic progress during the last five years, weathering the global financial crisis and becoming the world’s largest exporter and second largest economy, surpassing Japan.

Competing visions and expectations complicate China-US ties. They need to try and walk in each other’s shoes, argues Shen Dingli.

Double-digit growth can’t hide the fact that China’s state-controlled economy is leaving the vast majority of citizens behind.

China is backing away from last year’s assertive posture. Whatever the reason, the US shouldn’t expect a transformation in ties.

Hu Jintao has been keen to emphasize ‘fairness’ in China. But has the message reached the ears of many of the country’s officials?

A new Cold War between the US and China isn’t inevitable. But better inter-military communication will be needed to stop one, says Michael Swaine.

Some China watchers look to Bismarck as a comparison for China. It’s a less reassuring analogy than they think.

China’s ties with other major powers took a sharp turn for the worse in 2010. Its leaders need to change mindset, says Minxin Pei.

Those that believe the status quo with Taiwan can go on indefinitely are being far too complacent, argues Daniel Lynch.

There's more to democracy than a choice between the 'Beijing Consensus' and the West. China should look at Indonesia.

China's excessive territorial claims in the South China Sea are pushing Vietnam toward the United States.

The rise of China in Africa is arguably the most important development for the continent since the end of the Cold War, and the related dynamics have helped reinvent Africa as a priority investment destination.

China’s leadership sends contradictory signals about the prospects for political reform.

In the coming decades, China will face serious challenges to its energy security unless sustained economic development can be achieved.

Complacent industrialized democracies must face up to the challenge China poses to global norms, argues Edward Friedman.

Friends of the Burmese junta are few, but chief among them is China.

Over the next decade, China’s monolithic, top-down education system must change because of increasing social and economic pressure for reform.

While China’s economy continues to storm ahead, events in 2010 proved that in other areas, the system remains very repressive.

China's goals in Central Asia appear largely economic, devoted to securing the region’s vast oil and natural gas wealth to fuel its booming economy.

Beijing has a long-standing enmity with Hanoi and has never boasted a great friendship with Bangkok.

The key to China's relationship with India is actually India's relationship with the United States, argues Madhav Nalapat.

It's time for China to stop enabling North Korea's bad behaviour. It's current approach threatens regional stability.

The relationship between Beijing and Moscow is perhaps the best its ever been. That said, this situation is due less to common values and shared interests than to the fact that their security concerns are currently directed elsewhere.

The environmental limits on China’s current road of economic growth will become increasingly apparent over the next five years, prompting policymakers to either change direction or brace for a nasty collision.