Volume 14 Issue 5

Articles from Volume 14 Issue 5

The Humbling of the NDRC: China’s National Development and Reform Commission Searches for a New Role Amid Restructuring

03.06.2014 Peter Martin

It’s been a tough year for the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). The Chinese government’s central economic planning ministry dominated economic policy-making in the...

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Symbolism over Substance: Sochi Showcases China-Russia Pragmatic Partnership

03.06.2014 Richard Weitz

President Xi Jinping’s February 6–8 trip to the 22nd Winter Olympics in Sochi again shows how China uses symbolism to promote its pragmatic partnership with...

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Terrorist Attack in Kunming Reveals Complex Relationship with International Jihad

03.06.2014 Jacob Zenn

On March 1, at least six men and two women equipped with daggers stormed a train station in Kunming, the capital of China’s southwestern Yunnan...

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National Security Trumps Reform at the NPC

03.06.2014

Domestic and international security concerns have dominated the on-going session of China’s legislature, the National People’s Congress. This is despite high expectations that Premier Li Keqiang will...

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With Allies Like These, Who Needs Rivals?: China Maintains Studied Ambiguity on Ukraine as Russia Claims ‘Concordance of Views’

03.06.2014 David Cohen

In a statement that has been widely interpreted as signifying Chinese support for the Russian position on the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, the Russian Foreign...

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India Unsettled by Proposed China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Through Kashmir

03.06.2014 John C. K. Daly

On February 26, Pakistani officials announced a step forward in China’s plans to construct a transportation corridor through Kashmir to the Pakistani port of Gwadar....

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