The Asia and the Pacific region continues to be the global growth leader even as it faces significant development challenges and downside risks.
As Taiwan peacefully manages its differences with mainland China, it seeks dignity within the international system and believes it can play a positive role supporting its close unofficial relationship with the United States.
China’s leadership is saying all the right things, but the political and economic challenges they face to achieve meaningful reforms remain daunting.
China watchers are looking at the new generation of leaders to assess their policy leanings and appetite for political and economic reform.
China’s 12th National People’s Congress has concluded and Xi Jinping assumed the presidency of a country that is at a domestic crossroads and is simultaneously a rising international power.
Current tension in Japan-China relations has implications beyond short-term concerns about an accidental clash at sea or a drop in bilateral trade.
Richard Nixon’s 1972 decision to normalize relations with the Peoples’ Republic of China changed the global political balance in deep and lasting ways. While today’s U.S.-China relationship—a direct result of that groundbreaking trip—is in a place few could have imagined in 1972, it faces many difficult challenges in the coming years.
The Cyprus banking crisis is an exaggerated version of the problems that persist throughout peripheral Europe.
Western powers can encourage China to become a responsible stakeholder by reassuring Beijing that its concerns will be heard and its interests can be served through compromise.
Despite the raging criticism of the "Anglo-Saxon" financial model during the financial crisis, the funding of risk-taking entrepreneurs is crucial for wealth creation.