Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
U.S.-China energy security and climate cooperation should be defined by setting challenging goals, agreeing on enforceable measures, and cooperating on technology deployment policies and long-term research and development.
Last week, the six-party negotiations (which include the United States, China, Russia, Japan, North Korea and South Korea) agreed on a second phase of a plan to denuclearize North Korea that has under discussion since 2005. This plan goes further than the agreed framework by requiring "disablement" of North Korean plutonium production facilities, but is troublingly silent on a few things.
The China Program of Carnegie Endowment hosted a seminar on latest democratic development in Hong Kong, featuring guest speaker Alan Leong, member of Hong Kong's Legislative Council.
Japan experts discuss the political consequences of Prime Minister Abe’s resignation, and the implication it has on Japanese foreign policy regarding U.S, China, and rest of the Pacific Rim.
It is not China's military that threatens America right now; the U.S. military remains vastly technologically superior to the People's Liberation Army. Rather, it is China's growing long-term defense relationships with other nations that should worry Washington.
China's recent antisatellite test was not a protest against U.S. space policy, but rather, was part of a loftier strategy to combat U.S. military superiority and one that China will not trade away in any arms-control regime.
Despite becoming more transparent in recent years, Beijing's first instinct, when presented with crises, is to slam the door. And as long as it does so, it will never truly enjoy the world's confidence.
On Jan. 11, 2007, a Chinese medium-range ballistic missile slammed into an aging weather satellite in space. The resulting collision not only marked Beijing's first successful anti-satellite (ASAT) test but, in the eyes of many, also a head-on collision with the Bush administration's space policies.
A launch for the new book Assessing the Threat: The Chinese Military and Taiwan’s Security edited by Michael D. Swaine, Andrew N. D. Yang, and Evan S. Medeiros with Oriana Skylar Mastro, was held.
Bringing together experts from the U.S. and Taiwan, Assessing the Threat provides a comprehensive look at the dangers of military escalation in the Taiwan Strait, the latest advances in capabilities of the People’s Liberation Army, and China’s security relationship with the United States and the Asia-Pacific.