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Thursday, 19 September 2013

The Sources of the Sino-American Spiral

Posted on 02:51 by Unknown
By Jennifer Lind, Daryl Press

The paramount question looming over twenty-first century international politics is: will the United States and China get along?
Most national-security experts express guarded optimism. 
Although rising powers have historically clashed with their established rivals—adopting revisionist foreign policies to secure more influence, territory, or status—this time, people say, is different. 
China is a major stakeholder in the current economic order and has no reason to overthrow the very system that has allowed it to grow rich and powerful. 
The regional maritime disputes that do exist—over small uninhabitable islets—may arouse emotions but do not demonstrate a deep revisionist streak in Beijing. 
In short, a status quo Washington and a status quo Beijing need not clash.
But pondering the future of East Asia—and great power relations—in terms of whether China will adopt a “status-quo” or “revisionist” grand strategy obscures the real sources of Sino-American conflict. 
It ignores the range of options available to Beijing, and it pins the future on China’s strategic decisions alone.
In reality, the tenor of great-power relations in the coming decades will depend on the interaction of U.S. and Chinese foreign policies—which collide to a far greater degree than is frequently acknowledged. 
In fact, smooth relations between the United States and China will only be possible in the unlikely event that China adopts an extremely docile national-security strategy, or in the equally unlikely event that the United States cedes its dominant position in the Western Pacific.

CHINESE MENU
Beijing has a broader array of options than the categories “status quo” or “revisionist” imply. 
What is striking, however, is that all but one of its options put Beijing and Washington on a collision course.

At one extreme, China might continue its rise as an economic powerhouse without substantially enhancing its military might, and without seeking to alter the international order in East Asia or the world.
The logic of this “Rich Nation, Weak Army” strategy is straightforward: China has enjoyed spectacular economic success for four decades while pursuing Deng Xiaoping’s strategy of strategic restraint—so why rock the boat now? 
Foreign-policy restraint has allowed China to focus on its homeland security, prioritize butter over guns, and benefit from the fact that other countries—particularly the United States—have borne the costs of protecting the global order. 
Continuing this modest strategy would help reassure Beijing’s wary neighbors, minimize the odds of conflict with the United States, and allow Beijing to concentrate on China’s many domestic challenges (social, demographic, environmental, and institutional).
According to this grand strategy, Beijing would pursue its foreign policy goals through multilateral institutions and posture its military for modest and internationally sanctioned missions such as peacekeeping, disaster relief and antipiracy operations. 
Its national-security policy and military would be akin to that of Australia, Indonesia or the Philippines. Skeptics might note that this strategy entails, de facto, relying upon the United States to ensure global order and protect China’s interests. 
True; but modern China has never been able to defend its airspace or coastal waters from the major military powers, let alone project military power far from its shores. 
And yet it has prospered.

Alternatively, Beijing might choose a strategy that reflects its emergence as the major regional power in East Asia. 
An accommodating version of a regionally focused strategy would seek to establish China as a major East Asian military power—while not changing the region’s political and economic order. 
China would not become expansionist, overturn the existing liberal economic system, or try to expel the U.S. military from the region. 
Rather, the goals of this strategy are modest and the logic is straightforward: although the current liberal order is good for Beijing—and should continue—it is natural that a great power such as China be able to defend itself and its interests in its own backyard.
In a more assertive version of this regional strategy, China would seek to become not just a major regional power, but also the dominant one. 
This would not necessarily be accomplished through conquest or coercion; instead, Beijing would simply generate so much economic influence and military might that it would become obvious to the countries of East Asia that there is one natural leader of the region—and it is China. 
China growing military capabilities would convince other East Asian countries that the United States could no longer reliably protect them. 
The goal: to ensure that the countries of East Asia begin to look to Beijing—even with gritted teeth—much as the countries in Eastern Europe look to Moscow, and those in Latin America look to Washington.
In the long term, China would establish its own informal Monroe Doctrine: while of course other countries’ ships would be welcome to sail through regional sea lanes, foreign military bases operated by regional outsiders would be as unwelcome in East Asia as they are now in the Americas.
To implement either version of this regional strategy, China would build the air and naval forces to control the airspace and waters out to a few hundred miles from the Chinese coast, and to project military power throughout maritime East Asia. 
Beijing would likely seek allies in the region to host Chinese military forces. 
The more assertive version would require the same sort of military forces—just more of them.
If Beijing chose to pursue a revisionist regional strategy, it would engage in diplomacy aimed at ousting the United States from the region. 
It would use various forms of influence and leverage to try to break up America’s key alliances. 
China’s diplomacy would seek to convince its neighbors of two things—first, that they can be just as rich, free, safe, and independent within a Chinese-led order as they are within the current order. 
Second, Beijing would seek to convince them that allying with powerful outsiders against China is a dangerous option—because eventually those outsiders will leave, and when they do, the neighbors will be left next to an unfriendly and regionally dominant Beijing.
Critics might protest that China would not want to topple the economic order that has promoted its rise—but there is nothing about even the more revisionist version of this strategy that would do this. 
This strategy would promote free trade and investment, and seek peaceful relations among the countries of East Asia, but would do so without the intrusions of a distant great power.
Like Russia’s dominance in Eastern Europe, and U.S. preeminence throughout North America, this strategy would establish China as the dominant player in East Asia.

A third overarching option for China: look beyond its region to become a global political and military power. China has global interests. 
It is a leader in international trade, a key player in currency and bond markets, a major target and sender of international investment. 
Its economy depends on access to distant energy supplies. 
And Chinese firms and people have spread across the world from Suriname to Iran, from Kazakhstan to Angola. 
Yet Beijing has limited ability to influence events around the world. 
In Europe, the members of the EU and the United States (through NATO) make the key decisions; the Persian Gulf is dominated by the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council and their U.S. partners. 
While China has a stake in all of these regions, it is marginalized. 
Under a global strategy, China would seek the global influence commensurate with power and global interests.
In a more benign version of a global strategy, China would merely seek greater influence around the world to ensure that its interests are respected. 
It would not try to remake the Persian Gulf or Latin America, or to push the United States out of any region. Rather, China as a status-quo global power would merely seek a portfolio of interests—which because of economic globalization now span the globe.
China might alternatively adopt a more revisionist global posture. (This is generally what people have in mind when they contemplate China as a “revisionist” great power.) 
This strategy would seek to reorder international politics and to minimize American power and influence around the world, by luring countries out of the U.S. orbit and by providing an alternative to opponents of the United States (through political support, trade agreements, security guarantees and arms sales).
It would give cohesion to countries—such as Iran and Venezuela—that oppose the U.S.-led world order, yet are regionally dispersed and lack the coordination to effectively oppose Washington.
Pursuing either version of a global strategy would require increased defense spending—though perhaps merely maintaining China’s current spending as a percentage of GDP, as Beijing’s GDP increases—to develop global power-projection capabilities. 
A revisionist China would likely purvey an ideology or narrative that justified its own global authority and discredited American leadership. 
Fundamentally this strategy would be about shaping the world in a way that is most conducive to Chinese influence, by building alliances and a network of friends across the globe. 
Even the revisionist version of a global strategy is not necessarily aggressive or violent; it is about leadership—the same kind of strategy that the United States has followed for the past twenty years.

PEACE THROUGH DOMINANCE
Peaceful U.S.-China relations depend not merely on Chinese decisions, but on how they interact with the American national-security strategy. 
Like China, the United States has a menu of strategic options; unlike China, however, the United States has a well-established grand strategy, which includes longstanding alliances in East Asia.
Since the end of the Cold War, across four successive administrations, the United States has pursued a strikingly consistent national-security strategy—variously called “hegemony,” “global leadership,” or “deep engagement.” 
While the specifics fluctuate, the core principles—exercising leadership and promoting stability through a global network of alliances—have remained constant.
To be sure, disagreements about implementation arise regularly. 
Liberals tend to favor humanitarian intervention, value broad international coalitions, and prefer to work through international institutions. 
Conservatives are more inclined to use force to prevent the spread of WMD, and worry less about passing a “global test” (as Secretary of State John Kerry famously commented as a presidential candidate) when they contemplate using force. 
But tactical disagreements should not obscure the underlying bipartisan consensus: the United States will exercise global leadership, and ensure stability, through a network of alliances and powerful military presence in critical regions.
To implement this strategy in East Asia, the United States pursues three benign-sounding objectives. 
First, assurance: the United States seeks to assure its friends that it will protect them in time of crisis or war, and that it can do so effectively. 
The goal of assurance is to convince U.S. allies to forego independent steps to protect themselves (e.g., building powerful conventional military forces or nuclear weapons)—because such steps could trigger arms races and upset the region’s political and economic order.
A second American objective is deterrence. 
The United States seeks to dissuade potential adversaries from turning disagreements into crises, and to deter them from turning crises into wars.
Finally, the United States seeks to promote political and economic cooperation—thereby turning allies and potential adversaries into stakeholders in a mutually beneficial, peaceful and prosperous region.
None of these goals sound provocative—who would argue against promoting stability and cooperation? 
The potential for trouble lies in the strategy’s military requirements.
Because of the structure of the U.S. alliance system, and the nature of modern naval warfare, the benign-sounding U.S. policy toward Asia requires not merely U.S. military presence in the region, it requires a substantial degree of military dominance. 
Depending on China’s future national-security choices, U.S. military dominance may cause considerable friction with Beijing.
Two pillars of the U.S. strategy—assuring allies, and deterring potential adversaries—rest upon U.S. military dominance in the Western Pacific. 
Allies can only feel safe outsourcing their security to the United States if they are confident that in time of crisis or war, Washington will be able to defend them effectively. 
This means that U.S. allies must be sure that the U.S. military will be able to cross five thousand miles of ocean with enough military power to decisively defeat whoever is menacing them. 
If allies begin to doubt U.S. power projection capabilities, they will, quite reasonably, feel compelled to develop more military power of their own. 
Similarly, the U.S. strategy requires that adversaries have no practical means for keeping American power projection at bay. 
If adversaries believe that they can keep U.S. reinforcements out of the region, deterrence will be undermined. 
The cornerstone of the U.S. strategy in East Asia is thus the ability to bring decisive force to bear if needed.
The changing nature of warfare makes power projection across vast oceans increasingly difficult.
Modern sensors—satellite-based, ground-based, on unmanned aerial vehicles, and underwater—make tracking ships at sea easier than ever before. 
Furthermore, long-range strike systems, such as ballistic missiles and antiship cruise missiles, make it easier to destroy lumbering ships once they’ve been located. 
The United States has other means of projecting power into East Asia—for example, using forward air bases—but those bases are also easy targets for missile strikes, and increasingly sophisticated air-defense systems threaten to keep U.S. aircraft far from enemy coasts. 
The central role of power projection in U.S. national-security strategy—and the growing threat to ships and forward bases—explains the U.S. Defense Department’s focus over the past decade on the “antiaccess” threat, especially China’s growing capabilities.
The U.S. military’s answer to this problem (known as “AirSea Battle”) is straightforward: be prepared to defeat antiaccess forces by blinding enemy sensors, degrading their command and control systems, and destroying their most capable conventional strike systems (e.g., those that target U.S. ships and airfields). The point is that in the age of advanced sensors and lethal long-range missiles, projecting overwhelming power across an ocean requires the ability to blind, disrupt, and disarm one’s enemies at the opening stages of conflict.
Pro-China critics accuse the U.S. military of exaggerating the China threat. 
These critics protest that China has only a fraction of U.S. military power, and they decry expensive new weapons to defeat antiaccess capabilities as provocative and unnecessary. 
But regardless of the aggregate balance of military power between the United States and China, the U.S. Navy and Air Force are correct that U.S. strategy in Asia hinges on the promise to bring overwhelming force to bear—despite the expanse of the Pacific Ocean and the growing threat to power-projection forces. 
If China can substantially impede U.S. access during a war, the U.S. strategy toward the region will unravel.

WINTER IS COMING
Given Washington’s national-security strategy, the only Chinese policy that will not conflict with U.S. national-security goals is the most docile option—the strategy of “rich nation, weak army.”
If China pursues any of the other options—including the more defensive ones—U.S.-China relations are likely to grow much more conflictual. 
Even if Beijing merely wants to be Washington's peer in China's own backyard, that would threaten the U.S. ability to move military forces to and around East Asia, undermining the core of Washington's regional strategy. 
Those analysts who argue that a status-quo China need not conflict with the United States underestimate the extent to which Chinese and American grand strategies are on trajectories that collide.
The best hope for amicable U.S.-China relations rests on Beijing adopting a highly restrained grand strategy, but it would be historically unprecedented if it did so. 
China would be choosing to live within a security order managed by another great power—one with whom it has tense relations. 
While some countries have pursued docile grand strategies (one thinks of Australia, Canada and Japan), they have done so under the protection of a friendly, like-minded ally, the United States. 
In fact, two of America’s closest cold war allies, West Germany and Japan, took docility only so far. 
They built potent conventional military forces and, in Japan’s case, a nuclear hedge in the form of a giant stockpile of plutonium. 
Great powers have not entrusted their security to this degree to another great power unless they had little choice or unusually warm relations.
Indeed, a look at China’s national-security policy—its pursuit of antiaccess capabilities, its territorial claims, and discussions of claims to “second island chains”—suggests that it is at a minimum aspiring to be a regional great power. 
The remaining questions are the extent to which Beijing will confine its ambitions to East Asia (as opposed to pursuing a global strategy), and the extent to which it will tolerate U.S. global leadership or seek to undermine U.S. influence.
And the United States? 
In theory, Washington, like Beijing, has a number of strategic alternatives and could choose to adopt a strategy (such as “offshore balancing”) that would not require U.S. military dominance in the Pacific.
But this appears unlikely. 
There is little support for this move within the American foreign-policy establishment, the U.S. military or the globalized American economic elite. 
Offshore balancing would be a radical departure from the way that the United States currently operates in East Asia; from how it plans to operate in the region in coming decades; and from how it has organized U.S. security in the region for the past sixty years.
Some might argue that by demonstrating greater humility and modesty the United States can continue its current strategy while still reassuring China. 
Summits can be held; regional institutions can be strengthened; Beijing can be empowered with leadership roles. 
Liberals criticized George W. Bush for aggressive policies that were offensive to U.S. allies and adversaries alike. 
They argue that more diplomatically savvy, consensus-building leaders can reassure allies and soothe others that We Come In Peace.
But evidence from the past five years does not support this view. 
American grand strategy under a Democratic administration has not noticeably changed—if anything, U.S. policy is even more assertive in East Asia. 
Though a supporter of the policy, Asia scholar Michael Green characterizes the Obama administration's rebalancing effort as aimed at China’s “soft underbelly” in Southeast Asia—deepening military ties with the Philippines and Singapore; stationing 2,500 U.S. Marines in Darwin, Australia; and even flirting with America’s Cold War adversary Vietnam (which dwells on the Chinese border). 
The very dynamics we describe—China fearing the United States and acting to counter it; the United States fearing those countermeasures and then responding in turn—have not only occurred but have accelerated during the Obama administration.
In some sense, the greatest danger for the United States is the illusion that the current strategy of “leadership” or “deep engagement” is benign and unthreatening. 
China’s pursuit of a policy of “deep engagement” in Latin America or the Caribbean would be viewed by policymakers in Washington as outrageously provocative. 
As China’s power grows, Beijing's leaders are likely to develop similar intolerance of American aircraft flying near their shores, U.S. warships plying nearby waters and the network of U.S. military bases that surrounds China.
The fundamental problem in U.S.-China relations—the engine of conflict between the two countries—is neither America’s grand strategy nor Beijing’s. 
China would be entirely reasonable in wanting the ability to defend its airspace and coastal waters from foreign powers. 
It is also perfectly reasonable for the United States to want to uphold its sixty-year-long security commitments to the region by retaining the ability to move powerful air and naval forces there.
Of course, perhaps a U.S.-China clash will never occur—after all, as with the much-hyped rises of the Soviet Union and Japan, China’s economy may languish or implode; a “Chinese Spring” could also derail its future prosperity. 
But assuming China’s economy continues to grow at a healthy rate, unless the United States departs from six decades of foreign-policy precedent, or unless China elects to pursue extreme foreign-policy meekness, America’s and China’s reasonable national-security interests will collide. 
This is how the tragedy of great-power politics unfolds.
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  • Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations
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  • Document No. 9
  • dogfight
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  • eight-year probe
  • electric irons
  • Elephant Hunting
  • embezzlement
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  • Empire of Lies: The Truth About China in the XXI Century
  • Employing Land-Based Anti-Ship Missiles in the Western Pacific
  • Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
  • Empress in the Palace
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  • endemic corruption
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  • Energias de Portugal
  • energy
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  • Frank Wolf
  • fraud
  • free markets
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  • freedom
  • Freedom House
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  • Fujian
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  • genuine universal suffrage
  • George Macartney
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  • ghettoization
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  • GitHub
  • GlaxoSmithKline
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  • Global Hawks
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  • GONGO
  • google
  • Google Inc
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  • governance
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  • Grace Geng
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  • Great Han Chauvinism
  • Great Leap Forward
  • Greatfire
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  • Greece
  • greed
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  • GSK
  • Gu Kailai
  • guangdong
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  • guanxi
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  • Guidebook for Civilised Tourism
  • Guo Feixiong
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  • Guy Sorman
  • H-6K
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  • Halloween decorations
  • Hamas
  • Han hegemony
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  • harassment
  • Harbin
  • hardball tactics
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  • Heathrow Airport
  • heavy environmental damage
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  • hedge fund
  • henan
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  • Hidden Lynx
  • high mercury levels
  • Hillary Rodham Clinton
  • hiring practices
  • historical facts
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  • history
  • HMS Poseidon
  • Holland's Got Talent
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  • kids
  • kill everyone in China
  • Kmart store
  • kowtow
  • KPMG
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  • Kunming
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  • LACM
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  • layoffs
  • LDOZ
  • lead
  • leadership role
  • leading space polluter
  • Lee Teng-hui
  • Leed International Education Group
  • left-over woman
  • legal warfare
  • legitimacy
  • Lei Zhengfu
  • Leninist corporatism
  • letter of remorse
  • LG Group
  • LG U+
  • LGFV
  • Li Jianli
  • Li Keqiang
  • Li Peng
  • liaison
  • Liang Chao
  • Lianwo 连我
  • Liaoning
  • lies
  • life sentence
  • life-size female dolls
  • Lijia Zhang
  • Lily Chang
  • Lin Xin
  • Line
  • Line application
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  • line-cutting
  • littering
  • Little Red Book
  • Liu Tienan
  • Liu Xia
  • Liu Xianbin
  • Liu Xiaobo
  • Liu Yazhou
  • Liverpool
  • Lloyds Registry Canada
  • local government debt
  • local government financing vehicles
  • Lockheed Martin
  • locusts
  • lonely Chinese male
  • long-range land attack cruise missile
  • long-range missile defense system
  • Lost in Thailand
  • loudness
  • Louis Vuitton
  • love lives
  • low Earth orbit
  • low-quality tourists
  • loyalty
  • Lu Xun
  • Lunar Defense Obliteration Zone
  • lung cancer
  • Luo Yang
  • lust
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  • luxury brands
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  • luxury goods industry
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  • LVMH
  • mafia state
  • magnetic powders
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  • Mark Stokes
  • market reforms
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  • Masanjia Labor Camp
  • mass line
  • mass line rectification campaign
  • mass shootings
  • massive disaster
  • massive online censorship
  • Mattel
  • Matthew Winkler
  • Mauritania
  • Mead Johnson
  • media independence
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  • media warfare
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  • mega-dams
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  • Mekong
  • Mekong River
  • melamine
  • Melissa Chan
  • mercury
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  • microbloggers
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  • Mike Forsythe
  • military alliance
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  • milk powder products
  • minimum deterrent military capacity
  • mining industry
  • minyao
  • miracle cure
  • mirror sites
  • mirrored version
  • misallocation of capital
  • misogyny
  • missile defense system
  • missiles
  • mixed marriages
  • mob boss
  • modern slavery
  • modernization strategy
  • MolyCorp Inc.
  • monopoly on rumors
  • mooncakes
  • moral victory
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Mount Fuji
  • Mowa
  • Mowa Village
  • multinationals
  • multiple-unit ownership
  • Munk School of Global Affairs
  • murder
  • Murong Xuecun
  • Museum of Contemporary Art
  • mutual suspicion
  • MV-22 Osprey
  • Nagchu
  • names
  • Nanjing
  • NASA
  • National Arts Centre orchestra
  • National Broadband Network
  • National Court
  • National Day
  • National Endowment for Democracy
  • national habit
  • national holiday
  • National Intelligence Council
  • National Museum of China
  • National Museum of the Philippines
  • national security
  • National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy
  • NATO
  • natural gas
  • naval exercise
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  • Nazi Germany
  • Nazi-era Germany
  • neo-Maoist rhetoric
  • nepotism
  • Nestle
  • New Century Global Centre
  • New Citizens Movement
  • New Citizens' Movement
  • New Citizens’ Movement
  • New Horizon Capital
  • new reserve currency
  • new rich
  • new type of great-power relations
  • New York Times
  • news distributor
  • news terminals
  • news war
  • Next Media Animation
  • Ni Yulan
  • Niger
  • Nigerians
  • Nike
  • Nikki Aaron
  • nine haves
  • nine-dash line maritime grab
  • Ningguo
  • No Exit From Pakistan: America’s Troubled Relationship With Islamabad
  • No. 8 Middle School
  • Nobel Peace Prize
  • Nomura Holdings Inc.
  • North Korea
  • nose-picking
  • nouveau riche
  • Novatek
  • novel
  • nuclear “countervalue” strategy
  • nuclear attacks
  • nuclear option
  • nuclear strikes
  • nuclear submarines
  • nuclear war
  • nuclear-armed missile submarines
  • Nutricia
  • Nyoma air strip
  • obligations
  • OECD
  • official rumors
  • oil deals
  • one-child policy
  • online dissent
  • online rumor-mongering
  • online rumors
  • OPEC
  • Open Constitution Initiative
  • OpenDoor
  • Operation Aurora
  • Operation Beebus
  • oppression
  • oppressive occupier
  • orbital debris
  • Ordos
  • organ donations
  • organ harvesting from prisoners
  • organ transplants
  • organised prostitution
  • outlandish names
  • outrage
  • overcapacity
  • overseas agricultural project
  • P-3C Orion
  • P-8 Poseidon
  • Pacific Defense Quadrangle
  • Pacific operational geography
  • paintings
  • Pakistan
  • Palestinian terror groups
  • Panchen Lama
  • paper tiger
  • paracel islands
  • paranoid authoritarian government
  • Park Geun-hye
  • party discipline and purity
  • Party Plenum
  • Party's Third Plenum
  • patients’ anger
  • Patriot air defense systems
  • patriotism
  • patriotism campaign
  • Paul Mooney
  • Paul Reichler
  • payment defaults
  • pedophilia
  • Peel Group
  • Peel Holdings
  • peinü
  • Peking
  • Peking University
  • Peking University Cancer Hospital
  • Peng Ming
  • Periplaneta americana
  • Perry Link
  • persecution
  • personal liberty
  • pet food
  • Peter Humphrey
  • Pfizer
  • Pfizer Inc.
  • Phiblex
  • Philippines
  • Photoshop
  • Phuket International Airport
  • physical abuses
  • physical assaults
  • pig trotters
  • Ping An
  • PISA
  • pivot to Asia
  • pivot to Eurasia
  • PLA Navy
  • PLA's National Defence University
  • placebo effect
  • PM 2.5
  • PM2.5
  • poison jerky treats
  • poisonous baby milk
  • police interference
  • police state
  • political corruption
  • political education sessions
  • political freedom
  • political persecution
  • political prisoners
  • political reform
  • political struggle sessions
  • political trust
  • political warfare
  • pollution
  • Poly International Auction company
  • poor behaviour
  • population growth
  • Portland
  • Portugal
  • positivist science
  • potential brides
  • power
  • power struggle
  • Powerful Sex Shop
  • Pranab Mukherjee
  • PRC’s candidacy
  • premature deaths
  • premodern and imperialist expansionism
  • press event
  • press freedom
  • price fixing
  • price-fixing accusations
  • prices
  • princeling
  • Princeton University Press
  • prisoner of conscience
  • pro-democracy manifesto
  • Probe International
  • professional body double
  • profitable industry
  • Program for International Student Assessment
  • Program of International Student Assessment
  • Project 2049 Institute
  • Project Seascape
  • propaganda
  • property bubble
  • property bubbles
  • prostitution
  • protest
  • protests
  • pseudoscience
  • psychological warfare
  • public apology
  • public money
  • public opinion
  • public opinion analysts
  • public skepticism
  • publishing houses
  • Pudong
  • puffer fish
  • qi
  • Qi Baishi
  • Qiao Shi
  • Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd.
  • Qing Dynasty
  • Qing Quentin Huang
  • Qiu Xiaolong
  • quad tiltrotor
  • quantitative easing
  • Quotations from Chairman Mao
  • race
  • Ramada Plaza
  • RAND Corporation
  • rare earth elements
  • Raytheon
  • RCMP
  • re-education
  • re-education through labor
  • Reagan National Defense Forum
  • real estate prices
  • real-estate investments
  • real-name registration
  • Reaper
  • Rebiya Kadeer
  • reckless government spending
  • recklessness
  • reconciliation
  • recovery efforts
  • Red Cross Society of China
  • Red Guards
  • red restoration
  • Reed Bank
  • reeducation through labor
  • reform struggle
  • refurbished Soviet-era vessel
  • regional A2/AD alliance
  • regional security
  • regional security architecture
  • regional stability
  • regional status quo
  • Rei Mizuna
  • rejection of orthodoxy
  • relief effort
  • relief supplies
  • religious repression
  • Ren Zhiqiang
  • RenRen
  • replica
  • reporting
  • repression
  • repressive Web controls
  • reproductive health
  • repugnance
  • residency visa
  • resistance to China
  • resolution
  • resource scarcity
  • responsible state
  • restorative surgery
  • Reuters
  • Reuters Chinese website
  • reverse engineering
  • Revolution to Riches
  • rich Chinese offenders
  • rights activists
  • rising costs
  • rising labor costs
  • risk of conflict
  • rivalry
  • river pollution
  • river systems
  • rivers
  • Rob Hutton
  • Robert Ford
  • Robert Menendez
  • Rosneft
  • rotten apples
  • RQ-4 Global Hawk
  • rule of law
  • rumormongers
  • Rupert Murdoch
  • Russell Hsiao
  • Russia
  • Russian defense technology
  • ruthless tyranny
  • sabotage
  • Sakashima Islands
  • salami slicing
  • Salween
  • Sam Wa
  • Sam Wa Resources Holdings
  • Samsung
  • San Francisco Treaty
  • San Leandro
  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Sarah Cook
  • SARS epidemic
  • satire
  • scam artists
  • Scarborough Shoal
  • schoolgirl
  • schoolteacher
  • SCO
  • sculpture
  • sea row
  • Sears
  • SEC
  • second island chain
  • Second Thomas Shoal
  • second-class citizens
  • secret salvage
  • secure communications systems
  • security
  • security balance
  • security codes
  • security diamond
  • Security of Information Act
  • security strategy
  • security ties
  • self-castration
  • self-censorship
  • self-criticism
  • self-criticism sessions
  • self-immolation
  • self-immolation protests
  • Senkaku Islands
  • Sensitive Reconnaissance Operations
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
  • sewers
  • sex
  • sex classes
  • sex education
  • sex education courses
  • sex product industry
  • sex scandals
  • sex toys
  • sex workers
  • sexual contact
  • sexual revolution
  • shadow banking
  • Shai Oster
  • Shandong
  • Shanghai
  • Shanghai Cooperation Organization
  • shao guan xian shi
  • shengnü
  • Shenyang
  • Shenzhou space capsule
  • Shi Tao
  • Shichung
  • Shinzo Abe
  • shipwrecks
  • short sellers
  • short-selling
  • shouting
  • show trials
  • shrinking leverage
  • Sichuan
  • Sierra Madre
  • silence
  • Silk Road Economic Belt
  • Silvercorp Metals
  • Sina Weibo
  • Sina Weibo tweets
  • Sino-American conflict
  • Sino-India relations
  • Sino-Indian border
  • Sino-Indian relations
  • Sino-Vietnamese War
  • Sinopec
  • Skynet
  • slaughterhouses
  • small-stick diplomacy
  • smear campaigns
  • smog
  • smog-related cancer
  • social dysfunction
  • social media
  • social media crackdown
  • social media monitoring
  • social morality
  • society
  • Socotra Rock
  • soft power
  • soft-power contest
  • soft-power failure
  • Sora Aoi
  • South China Mall
  • South China Sea ADIZ
  • South Korea
  • South-North Water Diversion project
  • South-to-North Diversion
  • Southeast Asia
  • Southeast Asian pressure
  • Southern European
  • sovereignty
  • space debris
  • space program
  • space science
  • Spain
  • Spain-China relations
  • Spain’s national court
  • spam attacks
  • Spanish court
  • Spanish criminal court
  • Spanish justice
  • Spanish National Court
  • spas
  • spearphishing
  • spending spree
  • spiritual civilization
  • spitter
  • spitting
  • spoiling of the negotiations
  • Spoiling Tibet: China and Resource Nationalism on the Roof of the World
  • Spratly Islands
  • spurious claim
  • stability
  • Starbucks
  • Starbucks latte
  • state capitalism
  • state decadence
  • State Information Office
  • statism
  • Stella Shiu
  • Stephen Cassidy
  • Stephen M. Walt
  • Steven Schwankert
  • strategic bomber
  • strategic partnership
  • strategic quadrangle
  • strategy of harassment
  • street food
  • street vendor’s execution
  • struggle session
  • study sessions
  • Su Ling
  • Su-27
  • Su-33
  • Su-35
  • submarine
  • subpoena
  • substitute criminals
  • suburbia
  • suicide bombers
  • suicides
  • Sunday trading rules
  • superblock
  • Supertyphoon Haiyan
  • supply and demand
  • surrogacy agencies
  • surrogates
  • surveillance
  • surveillance cameras
  • surveillance systems
  • sustainable fishing practices
  • sustainable growth
  • sweeping crackdown on dissent
  • Swiss watchmakers
  • Symantec
  • symbolism
  • taboo
  • taboo topic
  • tailings pond
  • taiwan
  • Tang Shuangning
  • Tang Xiaoning
  • Tank Man
  • Taobao
  • taste for luxury
  • tax evasion
  • tax on second home
  • tea kettles
  • teenage romance
  • teenager
  • teenagers
  • telecom network equipment
  • televised confession
  • televised confessions
  • televised public pre-trial confessions
  • television drama series
  • terra nullius
  • territorial dispute
  • territorial sovereignty
  • territorial tensions
  • terrorism
  • terrorist funding
  • test of wills
  • testimony
  • Thailand
  • Thames Water
  • the final solution of the Chinese question
  • The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How Chinese Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets around the World
  • The Media Kowtow
  • The Network
  • The New York Times
  • The Plum in the Golden Vase
  • The Silent Contest
  • the Tibet House Foundation
  • The Vagina Monologues
  • theft of intellectual property
  • thefts
  • Theodore H. Moran
  • Third Plenum
  • Thomson Reuters
  • thorium
  • threats
  • Three Gorges Corporation
  • Thubten Wangchen
  • Ti-Anna Wang
  • Tiananmen Massacre
  • Tiananmen Square
  • Tiananmen Square attack
  • Tiananmen Square crash
  • Tianducheng
  • Tianjin
  • Tibet
  • Tibet Action Institute
  • Tibet flag
  • Tibet genocide case
  • Tibet Support Committee
  • Tibet's cultural dilution
  • Tibetan exile groups
  • Tibetan National Congress
  • Tibetan plateau
  • Tibetan Support Committee
  • Tibetans
  • Tiger Woman on Wall Street
  • time stamp
  • TiSA
  • toddler
  • Tom Clancy
  • Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine
  • Tony Abbott
  • top schools
  • Toronto
  • torture
  • total fertility rate
  • totalitarian China
  • totalitarianism
  • tourism
  • toxic air pollution
  • toxic legacy
  • toxic smog
  • toxic substances
  • toy safety
  • TPP
  • trade balance
  • Trade in Services Agreement
  • tradition
  • traffic accident
  • train ride
  • Trans-Pacific Partnership
  • Transparency International
  • trash
  • trashy habits
  • Treasury bonds
  • Treasury securities
  • Treaty of Westphalia
  • Trojan Horse
  • Trojan Moudoor
  • Trojan Naid
  • Trottergate
  • Trường Sa
  • tuhao
  • Turkey
  • Turkmenistan
  • Type 092 Xia-class nuclear powered submarine
  • Typhoon Fitow
  • Typhoon Haiyan
  • tyranny
  • U.N. hearing
  • U.N. resolutions
  • U.S. capitulation
  • U.S. cities
  • U.S. citizenship
  • U.S. congressional panel
  • U.S. Consulate in Chengdu
  • U.S. Director of National Intelligence
  • U.S. dominance
  • U.S. Embassy
  • U.S. fertility clinics
  • U.S. food safety protests
  • U.S. government debt
  • U.S. government shutdown
  • U.S. journalists
  • U.S. media firms
  • U.S. senators
  • U.S. Treasury
  • U.S. Treasury bonds
  • U.S. West Coast
  • U.S. women
  • U.S.-China Business Council
  • U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
  • U.S.-China Economic Security Review Commission
  • U.S.-Japan Security Treaty
  • UAV
  • Uighur democracy movement
  • Uighurs
  • UK
  • UK infrastructure
  • UK Trade and Industry
  • Ukraine
  • Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
  • UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
  • UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • UN Human Rights Council
  • UN human rights review
  • UN sanctions
  • unbridled materialism
  • uncivilized Chinese tourists
  • UNCLOS
  • underground organ sales
  • unemployment
  • unencrypted version
  • Unit 61398
  • united front
  • United Nations arbitration process
  • United Nations Human Rights Council
  • United Nations International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea
  • universal competence
  • universal jurisdiction
  • universal justice principle
  • Universal Periodic Review
  • University of Chicago
  • University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab
  • unmanned arms race
  • unpaid meals
  • unreasonable expansionism
  • unruly behaviour
  • unsophisticated marketing
  • urban management officials
  • urbanism
  • urbanization
  • urinating in swimming pools
  • Urumqi
  • US
  • US anti-terrorism laws
  • US Congress
  • US Food and Drug Administration
  • US government debt
  • US government intelligence adviser
  • US journalists
  • US military preeminence
  • US think-tank
  • US Treasurys
  • US war with China
  • US-China Economic and Security Review Commission
  • US-Japan Security Treaty
  • USA
  • Usmen Hasan
  • USS George Washington
  • Uyghur Human Rights Project
  • Uyghurs
  • Uzi Shaya
  • Vancouver
  • Venice Film Festival
  • very troublesome human rights record
  • veteran Beijing protester
  • vice-mayor
  • video
  • video surveillance technologies
  • vietnam
  • Vietnam’s Communist Party
  • Vietnamese brides
  • Vietnamese-Indian summit
  • villainess
  • Vincent Wu
  • vineyards
  • virginity
  • virgins’ blood
  • visa regulations
  • visa rules
  • visa terrorism
  • vital waterways
  • Voho
  • Voltaire Gazmin
  • wage increases
  • Walk Free Foundation
  • Wall Street Journal
  • Walter Slocombe
  • Wanda
  • Wang Bingzhang
  • Wang Gongquan
  • Wang Hun
  • Wang Jianlin
  • Wang Keping
  • Wang Lijun
  • Wang Xiuying
  • Wang Zhiwen
  • Wangluo
  • war
  • war crimes
  • war games
  • Warner Technology and Investment Corp.
  • warp-speed engine
  • Washington D.C.
  • Washington Post
  • Washington’s muddled response
  • wasting food
  • water
  • water shortages
  • water supply
  • water usage
  • wave of repression
  • wealth migrations
  • wealthy Chinese
  • Web censorship
  • WeChat
  • wedge politics
  • weibo
  • Wellesley College
  • Wen Jiabao
  • Wen Jiabao family empire
  • Wen Ruchun
  • Wen Yunsong
  • Wenchuan quake
  • Wenzhou
  • West Philippine Sea
  • Western businesses
  • western constitutional ­democracy
  • Western culture
  • Western media
  • Western monikers
  • Western news organizations
  • White House
  • Wikimania
  • Wikipedia China
  • Wing Loong
  • wireless network
  • Witherspoon Institute
  • work ethos
  • working-age population
  • World Uyghur Congress
  • world waters
  • world's biggest building
  • world’s leading executioner
  • world’s leading superpower
  • worsening cycle of repression
  • worst online oppressors
  • WTO
  • Wu Dong
  • wumao
  • Wyeth
  • Wyndham Hotel Group
  • Xi Jinping
  • Xi Jinping's family wealth
  • Xia Junfeng
  • Xia Yeliang
  • Xiahe
  • xiaojie
  • xiaosan
  • Ximen Qing
  • Xinhua
  • Xinjiang
  • Xinjiang independence
  • Xinjiang mosque
  • Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps
  • Xu Beihong
  • Xu Ming
  • Xu Qiya
  • Xu Zhiyong
  • Xue Manzi
  • Yahoo
  • Yamazaki Mazak
  • Yang Jisheng
  • Yang Luchuan
  • Yang Zhong
  • Yangzhong
  • Yantian
  • young love
  • Yu Hua
  • Yu Jianming
  • Yunnan
  • Yunnan Tin
  • Yuyao
  • Zambia
  • zaolian
  • Zhang Daqian
  • Zhang Shuguang
  • Zhang Xixi
  • Zhang Xuezhong
  • Zhang Yuhong
  • Zhejiang
  • Zhen Huan
  • Zheng He
  • Zhu Jianrong
  • Zhu Ruifeng
  • Zhu Xingliang
  • Zipingpu dam
  • Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science Technology Co.
  • Zubr landing craft
  • 人艰不拆
  • 喜大普奔
  • 成语
  • 温如春
  • 茉莉花革命
  • 金瓶梅

Blog Archive

  • ▼  2013 (499)
    • ►  December (79)
    • ►  November (181)
    • ►  October (178)
    • ▼  September (61)
      • The China vs. India News War
      • Her Husband’s Execution, Then a Bag of Ashes
      • The Enigma of Chinese Medicine
      • Tibetan Dies After Setting Himself on Fire
      • $3.9 Trillion Of Local Gov Debt In China... And Co...
      • The High Price of Digging Up Dirt in China
      • Puffer-fish statue reignites row over state decade...
      • My Shocking Train Ride Through the Heart of China’...
      • British adventurer's re-education in China
      • Japan would not make a concession on its territori...
      • Ahead of UN human rights review, China activist go...
      • Chicken Processed in China Triggers U.S. Food Safe...
      • China’s Southern European Spending Spree
      • China's Ghost Cities Are Multiplying
      • Corruption and the world's biggest building
      • The Rise of Chinese Space Junk
      • Osprey vs. Bison in the East China Sea
      • Will Chinese Drones Make Conflict More or Less Lik...
      • A Code of Conduct for the South China Sea?
      • China Beige Book Shows Slowdown, Opposite Official...
      • China and the TPP, Part II
      • China and the TPP: The Trojan Horse Option
      • Danone Faces More Bribery Allegations in China
      • U.S. Envoy Affirms Support for Universal Suffrage ...
      • Street Vendor’s Execution Stirs Anger in China
      • Chinese Look Overseas for Surrogates
      • China in push to join US-led $4tn services trade t...
      • China’s Crackdown Prompts Outrage Over Boy’s Arrest
      • How long can the Communist party survive in China?
      • Why big American businesses fail in China
      • Ukraine to become China's largest overseas farmer ...
      • Lynx, Mukden, Mooncakes, and Chinese Hackers
      • A Chill, Ill Wind Blows Across China
      • Bo Xilai Given a Life Term
      • Quan hệ Trung Quốc - Philippines rơi tự do và dấu ...
      • 5 ways the Chinese government will try to control ...
      • The Human Rights Implications of China’s Slowdown
      • Japan May Shoot Down Chinese Drones
      • The Murdochs scale back in China
      • China detains teenager over web post amid social m...
      • In China, mixed marriages can be a labor of love
      • China’s Unmatched Influence in Central Asia
      • Hacking U.S. Secrets, China Pushes for Drones
      • US Investigation Spotlights China's Princelings
      • Moral victory: San Leandro mayor suspends decision...
      • China Makes Life Hard for Multinationals
      • China Intensifies Social-Media Crackdown
      • Hacker group in China linked to big cyber attacks:...
      • The Sources of the Sino-American Spiral
      • Uighurs at Xinjiang mosque have to face China flag...
      • A wave of repression in China
      • Why taste for luxury fuels China corruption
      • Angry Skies: Japanese Jets Scramble as Tensions wi...
      • US, PH launch war games near South China Sea
      • The Drone War Comes to Asia
      • China Finds Resistance to Oil Deals in Africa
      • Japanese Carmakers Struggle With History in China
      • Obama visit seen to boost security ties mid China row
      • Chinese hospital requests virgins’ blood for medic...
      • How China Lost Its Mojo: One Town's Story
      • China's Syria Strategy
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