China's Inauspicious Year
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
China's response to the earthquake and other calamities of 2008 challenges the West to rethink its prejudices.


Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
China's response to the earthquake and other calamities of 2008 challenges the West to rethink its prejudices.
Naomi Klein : Myanmar (Burma)
Nothing terrifies a repressive regime more than a natural disaster.

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Two days in May could mark a turning point in the debates over Olympic boycotts.
Cora Currier : Student Movements
Tibetan-led youth groups are proving the power of grassroots organizing with their highly effective Beijing Olympics protests.
The Editors : Sports
Boycotts of the Beijing Olympics are easy. What's harder is moving China towards meaningful progress on human rights.
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom : Sports
Cracking down once again in Tibet, China seeks to control the script on its flawed human rights record, yet still be regarded as a suitable host for the Olympics. Dream on.
John Feffer : Globalization
Chinese hearts, minds and pocketbooks get a lot of attention from the Eastern and Western consumer markets.
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
In Shanghai, angry, middle-class protesters say a high-speed train will wreck their quality of life. This new form of dissent could be one of the biggest challenges China will face.
Ken Silverstein : Economic Policy
Corporate America spends millions lobbying to win permanent most favored nation (MFN) trade status for China, with its vast market and dirt-cheap labor force.
America's foreign-policy establishment is struggling to find an appropriate response to China's soft power.
Andrew Ross : Working Conditions
Worried about toxic toys from China? Worry, too, about Chinese workers exposed to the poisons.
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom : Sports
From product safety to piracy, human rights and the Olympic Games, isn't it time we started being realistic about the way we treat China?
Ten years of Chinese rule in Hong Kong hasn't resulted in severe human rights abuses, but full democracy has yet to emerge.
China has become like Israel: No matter the party, no matter the leader, the US government will defend its actions.
Jehangir S. Pocha : Sweatshops
How do the Chinese make such cheap TVs? By silencing, arresting and sometimes torturing labor rights activists.
Elizabeth Economy : Global Warming & Climate Change
The world's most industrialized countries started the climate crisis, but China might well finish the job.
Nicholas von Hoffman : U.S. Economy
China is losing its taste for lending the United States money that finances our wars, props up our dollar and shores up our credit.
Fatin Abbas & Christine Smallwood : Books
Reviews of Half of a Yellow Sun, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and The City Is a Rising Tide.
As China's economy surges forward, so does the pileup of social
contradictions: pollution, migration, crime and family dysfunction.
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom : History
Three new books on China invite the West to give up simplistic dreams and nightmares and come to terms with a complex and rapidly evolving authoritarian state.
Stephen Glain : US Foreign Policy
The Pentagon casts China as the Next Big Threat, but the Chinese regime is a far greater threat to its unmoored and angry citizens. China's unbridled economic expansion has also become a perilous source of discontent.
Peter Kwong : US Foreign Policy
The visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao underscores the deteriorating US-China relationship, yet the Bush Administration is making matters worse with diplomatic insults to the Chinese leader.
Rebecca MacKinnon : Internet & New Media
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco Systems are under fire from Congress for helping China censor and prosecute political dissidents. But a proposed law to guide technology companies doing business abroad raises troubling questions for Internet users everywhere.
Michael T. Klare : US Military
The Bush Administration's stance on China has gone from worry about their economic strength and oil consumption to full-on preparation for a new cold war.
Nicholas von Hoffman : Corporations
Like oil and water, Chinese capitalism and US politics just don't mix.
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush Administration
Nixon had it right: A prosperous China is good for us all.
China panic can be found at the progressive end of the spectrum.
Jehangir S. Pocha : Economic Policy
Chinese activists oppose the "Washington Consensus."
Carl Goldstein : Labor Organizing & Activism
One thing about Wal-Mart in China is familiar. The company's labor problems are making headlines.
Eric Alterman : Media Analysis
Why is it so hard to find a good right-wing anti-communist when you finally need one?



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