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Issue 12
Bush and Beyond: US-China Relations
The presidential elections are now behind us and an Obama Administration is near at hand. In this issue, several authors look back on US-China relations during the Bush era as well as peer forward with both uncertainty and cautious optimism for a challenging new period in bilateral relations. Also inside: a look at China’s religious policies, strategies for biosecurity and its credit relationship with the United States. Other articles include an examination of the US dollar’s dominance in oil finance and South Korean perceptions of China’s intentions in the DPRK.
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Issue 11
Debating China's Future...continued
In this discussion, we shift our focus from the grand sweep of China's condition to a number of issues that are key to understanding China's future path. China's soft power, its economic prospects, the country's nationalist tendencies, image-building and foreign policy are all explored.
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Issue 10
Spring 2008
Debating China's Future
In this issue of China Security, we begin with short essays from 20 leading writers and thinkers on where China is today, and where it is going tomorrow. The perspectives of these short pieces are as diverse as their conclusions. Some authors focus on the emergence of a military build up that is matching China's economic power, while others look at the country's internal challenges and contradictions. Many also ponder China as a model for other countries and the consequences and benefits that new paradigm may have for world order.
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Issue 9
Taiwan Redux
In this issue of China Security we turn our undivided attention to Taiwan. A number of key events, notably the Legislative Yuan election, U.N. referendum and the presidential election have drawn immediate scrutiny to the island. And rightly so. Taiwan's oftentimes stormy democratic process is an interesting study in itself and several authors examine its domestic political and social dimensions.
However, the "Taiwan problem," as it is often pejoratively called, is about more than just Taiwan or this 2008 election cycle. Both China and the United States are deeply invested in the island and its 23 million inhabitants for strategic, ideological and economic reasons. All three are closely intertwined through historical accident and political necessity. Thus, Taiwan has been at the epicenter of a perennial debate about China's future as a rising power, U.S. credibility as custodian of Taiwan's fledgling democracy and of possible conflict involving all three in the Taiwan Strait. This issue of China Security features authors from Taiwan, China and the United States to explore this trilateral dynamic and the impact Taiwan's elections on all of it.
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