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China will likely manage a soft landing in 2012. But economic imbalances in the Year of the Dragon will challenge the Chinese Communist Party.

Resource-rich Canada and resource-hungry China seem in some ways like natural partners. After a slow start, they just might be.

China may be loosening government restrictions on the property market too quickly. Structural issues remain.

Hu Jintao warned that China was in a cultural war with the West. But the real problems are at home.

Hu Jintao warned that China was in a cultural war with the West. But the real problems are at home.

The most important global trend is the emergence of a great people from millennia of despotic rule, says Gordon Chang. The Chinese people, in short, are the world’s unstoppable force.

The protest in Wukan reflects a general frustration among Chinese with their leaders. But will officials listen?

China’s soft power is widely talked about. But the country’s leaders will need to show flexibility to make it work.

Li Yuanchao has many of the right qualities to succeed Wen Jiabao. It’s a shame he probably won’t.

The response to Obama’s latest Asia trip has been mixed. Some Chinese commentators are missing the point.

With the Chinese government tightening credit, the massive leakage from the formal banking sector into the ‘shadow system’ ultimately risks sinking the country’s financial system.

China’s government has coined a new piece of political jargon: social management. But what does it mean?