Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Successful Post-Kyoto leadership on climate policy requires three elements: stronger goals, effective implementation, and the participation of the United States and China.
The resounding victory of Taiwan’s opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), in last Saturday’s presidential election has raised hopes for a new era of stability across the Taiwan Strait.
Ma Ying-jeou’s landslide victory in Taiwan’s 2008 presidential elections signal a shift in Taiwanese politics and an opportunity for better cross-strait relations. The United States must craft Taiwan policy to preserve peace and stability in the region.
Since its inception in Fall 2006, the series has addressed the most critical—and controversial—issues involving China's economic, socio-political, and military evolution and their policy implications for policy makers on Capitol Hill.
China can go for great stretches these days looking like the model of a postmodern, 21st-century power. But occasionally the mask slips, and the other side of China is revealed. The question for observers of Chinese foreign policy is whether the regime's behavior at home has any relevance to the way it conducts itself in the world.
One of the main issues facing the international community as it tries to create a post-2012 climate policy is how to engage developing economies like China and India. This is difficult because of the disparity between local and national governments in China when it comes to enforcing clean energy standards.
This year's International Conference on PLA Affairs, held in Taipei, Taiwan from November 29th to December 1st, focused on the theme of "The Chinese Navy: Expanding Capabilities, Evolving Roles?" An edited volume derived from the conference papers will be published in 2008.
People in Asia embraces democracy as a principal but have a very different understanding of what it looks like compared to citizens in the West.
For a rapidly growing economy like China's, with major income and consumption increases in all regions, inequality can serve to provide incentives for labor to move voluntarily to locations and occupations where it is more productive and hence better able to earn a higher standard of living.
Asia’s resurgence is revolutionary; Asia will contribute 43% of world GDP by 2020, is the second global hub of innovation, and has amassed a tremendous amount of military power. But the resurgence is also incomplete. Large swaths remain outside of Asia’s economic “miracle,” political systems remain at various stages of development, and Asian nations face many religious and ideological challenges.