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China is becoming an increasingly significant economic partner for Latin America. But its rise is part of a broader, long-term shift towards a world in which emerging markets have greater economic weight.
To set China on a path to sustainable development, its leaders will have to overcome vested interests in order to reform the country's fiscal system and tight controls over land and labor.
The causes of China’s unbalanced growth are often misunderstood in the West. As national and global conditions change, however, the policies that served China well in the past may need to be reconsidered.
Mitt Romney's tough talk on China conceals some assumptions that, if translated into policy, could set the two great powers on a collision course.
By 2030, China has the potential to be a modern, harmonious, and creative high-income society. But achieving this objective will not be easy.
If Beijing wants to deal with the issues that have spawned rising social unrest, it needs to reshape China’s economic institutions and control over basic resources in ways that moderate, rather than exacerbate, disparities.
Rising income, not the one-child policy, has driven down China's fertility rate. The policy has outgrown its limited purpose and should be ended to reverse lingering gender imbalances.
As Xi Jinping, China’s designated next leader, visits the United States, he faces protests over unfair competition and currency manipulation. More worrying than a trade war, however, is the potential for increased tension over technology transfers between China and the United States.
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping's upcoming visit to the United States will be an opportunity to represent America’s issues frankly and privately. However, it is important to leave partisan politics out of the visit.
China’s impact on the U.S. economy and its rising global power gives China a significant role in the Republican primaries for the 2012 U.S. presidential elections.