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Issue 8
Sino-U.S. Maritime and Naval Cooperation
The recent Kitty Hawk affair is the latest in a number of incidents that has cast a shadow over mil-to-mil relations between China and the United States. Yet, the U.S. Navy has made a bold move by tabling the proposal for a Thousand-Ship Navy, which calls for greater maritime and naval cooperation on the high seas. Three authors explore the parameters of cooperation that this new maritime strategy could entail and how it can be implemented. While the proposal is far-sighted and holds a real possibility for constructive U.S.-China collaboration, suspicion and doubt still remain strong on both sides. What is clear, however, is that while U.S. naval capabilities are not increasing, the mission to protect the sea-lanes against nontraditional and traditional threats is on the rise. The possibility of U.S.-China cooperation on the high seas may be uncertain, but the need for it is not.
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Issue 7
China's Rise in Africa
The West's role in Africa over the past decades, embodied mostly by well-intentioned though often erratic and contradictory assistance and resource-focused trade, has produced mixed results. Progress on the African continent has been made in some regions while others have experienced unprecedented chaos. Enter China. In the past 15 years or so, China has engaged the nations of Africa fast and furiously. China claims to bring a distinctive model in working with African nations, one focused more on self-interested yet equal trade, sustainable and non-charitable aid, underwritten by principles of noninterference rather than demands of accountability and political reform. Four authors from China and the United States discuss the many facets of this burgeoning relationship between Africa and China: the good and the bad, the challenges and opportunities, the signs of hope as well as the retreats to practices that stymie Africa from reaching its potential. The jury is still out on whether China's model will ultimately differ from that of the West or indeed be successful, as these articles detail. What is certain, however, is that China's enhanced commitment in Africa will not only profoundly impact Africa itself but the strategic relations between China and the United States.
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Issue 6
Meeting the Challenges of Non-Traditional Security
The world peers worryingly at China's meteoric rise--from its current 11 percent economic growth rate to its 2006 18 percent military budget increase--but the nation's future may rest more on the domestic socioeconomic challenges it faces in the years ahead. This series of articles explores a number of issues critical to China's stability. The first examines the rise of social conflict in China's vast rural populace. With the country's economic success, many winners have been created, but even more have lost out and they are increasingly willing to rise up against the system and defend their legitimate rights. A second article analyzes the aging of China's population. The aging of a population is already a growing problem for most of the developed world. However, the size and complexity of China leads to many unsettling consequences as its society grows old. A third article studies the grave situation of China's coal mining safety and the social and political implications it has for the poorest peasants who work in them.
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Issue 5
China's ASAT Test and Space Deterrence
China's anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon test on Jan. 11, 2007, was a defining moment for the security of outer space. Three explore China's motivations behind the test, U.S. and international reactions, and implications for the delicate strategic balance in space. Complementing these analyses, this issue also discusses the rationale for China's robust deterrence in space.
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