![](/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/region-china-asia-pacific.jpg)
Latest Articles about China
![](/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Violent_unrest_in_the_town_of_Lukqun__in_China_s_western_Xinjiang_region_late_June__Source_Guardian_.jpg)
China Claims Uyghur Militants Trained in Syria
The Chinese government has claimed since 2012 that Uyghur militants from Xinjiang are fighting with the rebels in Syria against the government of Bashar al-Assad (Global Times [Beijing], October 29, 2012). On July 1, China said that a Uyghur militant who studied in Istanbul and... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Kashagan_field_-_EDM_July_9__2013.jpg)
China Enters Kashagan Oil Project, Will Boost Kazakhstan-China Pipeline Capacity
On July 2, Kazakhstan’s government announced that it has decided to sell an 8.4-percent stake in Kashagan, the supergiant oilfield development project, to China’s National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). The CNPC has prevailed against India’s Videsh, external operations branch of Indian state-controlled Oil & Natural Gas... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/NTGPR_01.jpg)
Beijing’s Aggressive New Foreign Policy and Implications for the South China Sea
The Xi Jinping leadership is embarking on an ambitious and all-rounded diplomacy that official Chinese commentators have called large-scale or high-powered diplomacy (dawaijiao). Its essence, according to the Xinhua News Agency, is “taking relations with big powers as crucial; giving priority to [China’s] neighbors; treating... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/BRP_Sierra_Madre_on_Second_Thomas_Shoal__Philippine_Ship__01.jpg)
Second Thomas Shoal Likely the Next Flashpoint in the South China Sea
Second Thomas Shoal, a low tide coral reef located 105 nautical miles from the Philippines’ Palawan Island, is likely to become the next flashpoint in the South China Sea. The shoal—which is 15 kilometers long and five kilometers wide and is known as Ayungin in... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Chinese_Ships_Exercising_in_South_China_Sea_in_early_June__2__01.jpg)
The South China Sea Dispute (Part 2): Friction to Remain the Status Quo
China’s policy toward the South China Sea dispute remains fundamentally unchanged under the leadership of President Xi Jinping. Over the past six months, Beijing has tried to reassure neighboring countries of China’s peaceful rise, but also its determination to uphold its territorial and jurisdictional claims... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Emomalii_Rahmon_and_Xi_Jinping__Beijing__May_20_-_EDM_June_7__2013.jpg)
China as Tajikistan’s ‘Lender of Last Resort’
On May 19–20, the President of Tajikistan Emomalii Rahmon paid a state visit to China where he had talks with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, and with several heads of Chinese state corporations. Rahmon’s official visit resulted in several multi-million-dollar investment projects in the infrastructure,... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Wang_Yi_and_Indonesian_FM.jpg)
The South China Sea Dispute (Part One): Negative Trends Continue in 2013
From January through May, the South China Sea dispute continued to trend in a negative direction. Consistent with the pattern of developments over the past several years, the dispute continued to be characterized by an action-reaction dynamic in which attempts by one of the claimants—most... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Hongqi-9.jpg)
Missile Defense with Chinese Characteristics
On January 27, 2013, China conducted its second mid-course missile defense interceptor test, leading to considerable speculation among Chinese and Western analysts about Beijing’s motives and intentions as well as its plans for further development of mid-course intercept technology and possible deployment of its own... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/PAP_in_Xinjiang.jpg)
Xinjiang’s April 23 Clash the Worst in Province since July 2009
On April 24, reports emerged from Xinjiang that 21 people had been killed in what was reported as a “terrorist clash” in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture (Xinhua, April 24). The incident came as U.S. Ambassador to Beijing Gary Locke was undertaking the first visit to... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Xi_Jinping.jpg)
China’s Reform Summed Up: Politics, No; Economics, Yes (Sort of…)
A near-schizophrenic bifurcation has informed Chinese-style reform as implemented by the six-month old administration of General Secretary Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang. On the one hand, the preserving stability (weiwen) apparatus has pulled out all the stops to shackle dissidents and stymie other “destabilizing... MORE