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Arms Sales and the Future of U.S.-Taiwan-China Relations
November 24, 2008 05:01 PM
The outgoing Bush Administration made an 11th hour decision to notify the U.S. Congress on October 3—a day before Congress went into recess ahead of the groundbreaking November presidential election in the United States—that a raft of arms and weapons systems, which have been effectively frozen since December 2007, will be released for Taiwan. The passage of the arms package provided a temporary reprieve for Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou, whose approval rating since assuming office in May has...
Transformations in China’s Soft Power toward ASEAN
November 24, 2008
Among U.S.-led like-minded alliances, a nascent China policy position has been formulated based on the idea of “international socialization” [1]. The idea is to enmesh states in a compound network structured by international...
PLAs Mechanization and Informationization Come of Age: Sharpening and Vanguard-2008
November 24, 2008
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is developing a force that resembles the efforts of the Soviet Army in East Germany in 1986, which was creating an Operational ‘Shock Division’ of three regiments with each regiment containing...
Beijing's Stimulus Plan: Preemptive Crisis Management
November 24, 2008
China’s $586 billion (4 trillion yuan) stimulus package, which was announced before last weekend’s G20 Summit in Washington, has been hailed as indicative of Beijing’s commitment to stave off further bleeding from the global...
China's Strategic Engagement with Latin America
November 24, 2008
Ten days before Chinese President Hu Jintao left Beijing to attend the G20 Summit hosted by President George W. Bush in Washington on November 15 (China Brief, November 7), Zhongnanhai released its first policy white paper on...
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Beijing's Stimulus Plan: Preemptive Crisis Management
November 24, 2008 04:57 PM
China’s $586 billion (4 trillion yuan) stimulus package, which was announced before last weekend’s G20 Summit in Washington, has been hailed as indicative of Beijing’s commitment to stave off further bleeding from the global recession. World Bank Vice-President Justin Lin noted that the resuscitation effort would not only “make major contributions to China’s economic growth … but also become a catalyst for the export industries of other countries and help the world shake off recession earlier” (...
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China's Strategic Engagement with Latin America
November 24, 2008 04:46 PM
Ten days before Chinese President Hu Jintao left Beijing to attend the G20 Summit hosted by President George W. Bush in Washington on November 15 (China Brief, November 7), Zhongnanhai released its first policy white paper on Latin America and the Caribbean. The release of the white paper, preceding President Hu's third trip to Latin America, has been heralded in the Chinese state media as marking a "new chapter" in Sino-Latin American and Caribbean relations (People's Daily Online, No...
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