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In a Chinese healthcare system where the incomes of hospitals and doctors are often dependent on pharmaceutical sales, the access and affordability of medicine is problematic. Reform is needed, but the nature of that reform is intensely debated.
The United States is witnessing, at least temporarily, the collapse of effective liquidity for the complex financial instruments that have long been used to conduct transactions. But the real crisis is a Keynesian downward spiral, whereby declining consumption and declining investment reinforce each other.
Expectations are running high for major changes in the next U.S. administration's foreign policy, but how much change is likely, and will it be enough to close the gap between America and the world? Top experts from the Carnegie Endowment and elsewhere discussed this question during a two-day conference in Brussels.
Panel discussion on the expectations of China and India of the next U.S. president, and the rising importance of those expectations.
China’s space program represents a major investment aimed at allowing Beijing to expand its growing national power into space. How well Washington responds will determine both its future capacity to dominate the high ground as well as a variety of terrestrial outcomes.
In the first presidential debate, the candidates discussed the way forward on numerous foreign policy challenges, but they left out the one country who must be engaged to solve many of these issues – China.
Although much of the world is relying on an American economic recovery to fend off a global recession, China has proven that it can support its own growth.
2007 witnessed a "notable setback for global freedom." Some of this is the fault of the Bush administration, whose policies have given democratization a bad name. At the same time, new democracies have not figured out how to secure their new political systems beyond their first elections. Some democratization advocates wonder whether democracy has reached its global limits.
The next U.S. administration should commit greater leadership time to developing a more considered and engaged Asian policy that begins with a call for a new multilateral organization in East Asia.
The rise of China as a major economic, cultural, and military force in has fundamentally altered the balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region. Doug Paal from the Carnegie Endowment, and Geoffry Barret from the European Commission, discussed how the U.S. and the EU should respond to this new dynamic.
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