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The Dangers of Investing in China

The economic environment has become much more difficult and will probably remain so for the foreseeable future. Even if China cleans up its corruption and governance issues, succeeding in this new Chinese reality may be more difficult for investors than ever before. Read more

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China's Next Challenge: The Depletion of Global Natural Resources

China is a significant contributor to the depletion of a number of the world’s most precious natural resources. It is, for example, an important — indeed perhaps the largest — source of overfishing and illegal fishing globally. Read more

How Scholars Can Help Solve the South China Sea Disputes

The future prospect of a peaceful South China Sea will be dependent on not only the “good behavior” of the political leaders, but also whether scholars could produce innovative ideas and concrete proposals for solutions. Read more

Interview: Kevin Rudd on China

Kevin Rudd is the inaugural president of the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI). A former prime minister and foreign minister of Australia, he began his career as a diplomat and is a lifelong China scholar and fluent Mandarin speaker. Read more

Singapore and the Asian Century

In the coming decades Singapore is poised to take full advantage of one of its other intangible assets: its diplomatic skills and capacities. With the rivalry between the U.S. and China on the rise, Singapore has the potential to work as a broker and cultural facilitator between the two superpowers, a sort of “Asian Switzerland”. Read more

This is Japan’s Best Strategy to Defeat China at Sea

Given Tokyo’s apparent relative decline in military strengths what is the Japan’s best strategy for confronting China in the years ahead? Read more

The Implications of China’s Growth Slowdown

The once extraordinary rate of Chinese economic growth is slowing. In 2014, China’s GDP grew at an official rate of 7.4 percent, slightly less than the stated goal of 7.5 percent. Although more recently monthly data have been more robust, the trend towards slowing growth seems inexorable. Read more

China pushes Xi Jinping's 'Four Comprehensives' slogans

Following in the footsteps of Mao Tse-tung Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory and the "Three Represents", China is promoting President Xi Jinping's "Four Comprehensives", calling for rule of law and enforcement of Communist Party discipline. Read more

Air Pollution Turned This Chinese City into a Ghost Town

The city of Handen in Hebei province is the birth place of Qin Shihuang, China's first emperor. That illustrious history isn't apparent today. Aging, coal-burning steel factories belch grime over the city of 1 million, one of China's 10 most polluted. Read more