China, What's Next?

China’s leadership sends contradictory signals about the prospects for political reform.

In the coming decades, China will face serious challenges to its energy security unless sustained economic development can be achieved.

Complacent industrialized democracies must face up to the challenge China poses to global norms, argues Edward Friedman.

Friends of the Burmese junta are few, but chief among them is China.

Over the next decade, China’s monolithic, top-down education system must change because of increasing social and economic pressure for reform.

While China’s economy continues to storm ahead, events in 2010 proved that in other areas, the system remains very repressive.

China's goals in Central Asia appear largely economic, devoted to securing the region’s vast oil and natural gas wealth to fuel its booming economy.

Beijing has a long-standing enmity with Hanoi and has never boasted a great friendship with Bangkok.

The key to China's relationship with India is actually India's relationship with the United States, argues Madhav Nalapat.

It's time for China to stop enabling North Korea's bad behaviour. It's current approach threatens regional stability.

The relationship between Beijing and Moscow is perhaps the best its ever been. That said, this situation is due less to common values and shared interests than to the fact that their security concerns are currently directed elsewhere.

The environmental limits on China’s current road of economic growth will become increasingly apparent over the next five years, prompting policymakers to either change direction or brace for a nasty collision.