Minxin Pei thinks that China's transition from communism to democracy is stalled. Pei, a
senior associate and the director of the China Program at the Carnegie Endowment for …

Akey factor influencing America's China policy and dividing American opinions is the
evolution of the Chinese political system. Critics of the Clinton administration's China policy …

China had three revolutions in the twentieth century. The first was the 1911 collapse of the
Qing dynasty, and with it, the country's traditional system of governance. After a protracted …

by Yasheng Huang ccording to Henry Kissinger, when Mao Tse-tung was once asked about
his place in history, he lightly replied that he had only changed a few places around Beijing …

The tianxia trope has been advanced as an organizing principle for post-Cold War
international relations encompassing the rise of the People's Republic of China. The tianxia …

China is finding it ever more difficult to straddle the divide between its anachronistic political
system and its booming market economy. A reconsideration of the country's political future …

B y now, Chinese President Xi Jinping's ambition to remake the world is undeniable. He
wants to dissolve Washington's network of alliances and purge what he dismisses as" …

mortal. Xi is now 70 years old, and it is impossible to predict whether his reign will extend for
another five years or 15. But it will end. The United States needs a strategy that is capable of …

Over the past decade, China's leaders have pursued rapid economic reform while stifling
political change. The result today is a rigid state that is unable to cope with an increasingly …

The world is relearning a basic lesson about China: how it fits into international society
depends on its internal politics. The ease of relations with China from 1976 to 1989 reflected …