Asia Opinion

INTRODUCTION Since the disillusionment with Party orthodoxy and the resultant ’crisis of faith’ in the late seventies, Chinese society seems to have been trying to reinvent itself in ways different than those that existed earlier. The most striking feature of this...

When President Barack Obama visits the People’s Republic of China (PRC) next month, he hopes to expand the military relationship between the two nations. The PRC recently celebrated its sixtieth anniversary, marking the amazing transformation of a once impoverished agrarian...

Given the plural nature of Indian society, diverse images of China are present in the average Indian mind. These images tend to vary from one extreme to the other. ...

The idea of a Russia-China-India triangle has appeared logically in connection with the new political structuring of the world and the aggravating rivalry around the issue of the future world order. ...

The war that erupted between the United States and China in 2013 was a classic case of miscalculation by both parties. Neither Beijing nor Washington thought that the other side would escalate the long-standing tensions over Taiwan to the point...

THE DANGER OF A COLLISION COURSE On the surface, America’s relations with China seem to be rather cordial. Tensions spiked in April 2001 over the incident in which a U.S. spy plane collided with a Chinese fighter plane, but that quarrel...

CONTENTS Introduction 2013: How the War Began The Origins of the Taiwan Problem, 1895-1979 The Taiwan Problem Evolves: 1979-2000 Some Ominous Trends in Taiwan Some Ominous Trends in the PRC Washington’s Muddled Policy The Dynamic Military Balance Avoiding Calamity ...

An American Response to China’s Growing Military Might By Roger Cliff, Evan Medeiros, and Keith Crane Rand Review, Spring 2007 (Roger Cliff and Evan Medeiros are RAND political scientists. Cliff specializes in China’s military strategy, China’s science and technology, and U.S. defense policy...