"Our newspaper is dying, while the murderer cries 'I want more blood!'" read the stark, brief email message from a staff member of the popular Guangzhou newspaper Southern Metropolitan Daily. "The dawn seems so far away that we doubt it will ever come." The message... MORE

No military action for the Taiwan Strait--not even psychological warfare oriented missile drills such as those undertaken in late 1995 and early 1996 -- is being planned by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) for the coming year or so. And this will be true whether... MORE

Rather like George Bush and his division of the world into "Us and Them," China has stopped trying to persuade the people of Hong Kong to abandon their hopes for democracy and has warned them of realities as they are seen from Beijing. These realities... MORE

China is ever so in fashion these days. Indeed, a recent issue of Foreign Affairs ran two articles under the rubric “China Takes Off.” And though none of the authors suggested that China would be the world’s next superpower, the feeling remains that the majority... MORE

Recent revelations in the Abdul Qadeer Khan affair indicate that, with Chinese complicity, Pakistan developed a nuclear proliferation chain involving North Korea, Iran, Libya and nuclear suppliers in Europe and Malaysia. With Pakistan now the hub of international terrorism as well as nuclear proliferation, the... MORE

The two rounds of six-party talks in Beijing on the Korean nuclear standoff have demonstrated China's unusual support for a multilateral solution to the conflict. This is symbolic of the country's new diplomacy under Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabo. As is typical, Beijing is seeking... MORE

Last October, when China issued an unprecedented white paper on relations with the European Union (EU), it painted a rosy picture of economic exchanges, predicting that the EU would outstrip the United States and Japan and become China’s largest trading and investment partner. Not so... MORE

While President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have yet to make their mark in political reform, the Fourth Generation leaders, particularly Hu, have excelled in consolidating their power base in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and government hierarchies. It is true that, with respect... MORE

The avian or "bird" flu has already spread across at least ten countries in Asia and caused almost two dozen deaths in Thailand and Vietnam. In China, the flu epidemic has spread to more than half of all provinces and territories, while Hong Kong has... MORE

The past twelve months having been a banner year for Chinese foreign policy, senior cadres, including President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, have been busy laying the foundations of a diplomacy that is balanced yet pro-active. And the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Leading Group... MORE