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Rising domestic concerns in China over the increasing pressure of public opinion, the succession of the country’s leadership, and fundamental economic imbalances may have a growing effect on Beijing’s foreign policy.
The Obama administration will use an upcoming series of high-level diplomatic meetings to try to redirect relations with China in a more positive direction and move beyond recent tensions in the bilateral relationship.
China's economic investment in Afghanistan provides an opportunity for Afghan development that could help stabilize the country—an outcome that would benefit not only Afghanistan and China, but also the United States.
The Obama administration’s strategy for dealing with China reflects the complex dynamics of economic cooperation and geopolitical competition that underlie Washington’s ties with Beijing.
China’s current economic policies, which borrow from future household income to stimulate present growth, follow the development model that gave Japan extraordinary short term growth but led ultimately to a period of significant economic decline.
Local governments and state-owned enterprises have created China’s current housing bubble, but average Chinese taxpayers will bear the burden of the pending housing market collapse.
The Obama administrations sustained diplomatic outreach to Asia helps counter China’s increasing influence in the region at a time of economic weakness for the United States while keeping it engaged with Beijing.
Rising coastal production costs and declining transport costs are reshaping China's economic landscape in ways that may resolve the controversial role that Beijing is accused of playing in shaping global trade imbalances.
The only way to sustainably increase Chinese domestic consumption is to bolster the share of national income belonging to households by transitioning away from the Asian development model that led to Japan’s economic decline.
China’s most effective response to Secretary Clinton’s unexpected declaration in Hanoi regarding the South China Sea disputes would be calm diplomacy rather than outrage.