Research and analysis on China’s foreign policy and role in the world.

As urban populations surge worldwide, cities must work together with national governments to create environmentally and financially sustainable urban transport systems.

Development of the China-Myanmar gas pipeline holds significant implications for Myanmar’s reintegration into the international community and for China’s energy security.

Strange as it may seem, many years of miracle growth are always the “easy” part for a poor country. The tough part is usually the subsequent adjustment needed to accommodate the changes generated over the miracle years.

Washington and Beijing should take their bilateral cooperation on climate change to the next level by implementing projects to help cities reduce their carbon emissions.

Outward direct investment is a key component of China’s national strategy to support its rapid industrialization, bolster domestic industry, and deepen cooperation with other countries.

The transformation of power has led to a degree of impotence even among the institutions perceived as most powerful, including governments, corporations, and international organizations.

Snowden did not create the security-privacy dilemma, but he did illuminate a deeply rooted problem that Western leaders have long tried to obscure.

Chinese leaders are less concerned about growth moderating in the short term and are more focused on long-term reforms.

Infrastructure development along India’s borders with China and Pakistan can be cooperative, not competitive.

The United States and China need to define an affirmative economic agenda to strengthen their relationship and move their economies forward.

China’s entry into the negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership would further Beijing’s strategic interests, harmonize the TPP and RCEP deals, and safeguard Asia’s regional economic infrastructure.

ASEAN’s annual summit has grown from a regional gathering to talk shop into a forum for great power politics.

As sectarian strife embroils the Middle East in conflict and the United States gradually withdraws from the area, it is time for China to start pulling its weight on issues of regional stability.

The financial crisis is far from over.

War is unlikely between China and Japan, but ongoing crises are not. Bold diplomacy is needed.

Upcoming strategic talks offer an opportunity to cultivate personal ties and shape the future of U.S.-India relations.

It is high time for China, the EU, and the United States to promote deeper and broader economic integration without constructing trade subagreements.

Within the aid community, there are sharply divergent views on how political development assistance is and how political it should be.

China’s strategic turn to moving upmarket and pursuing sustainability has presented a significant challenge to Europe’s renewable energy market dominance.

Two difficult strategic challenges will test East Asia’s diplomats in coming years: first, the collision between economic integration and security fragmentation, and, second, the dominance of form over function in the institutions that could help to mitigate this debilitating dynamic.