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Byline: Gordon G. Chang It's fair to say that Xi Jinping got his job via the Olympics--and that he could lose it the same way. The Chinese strongman was the [...]

Byline: Gordon G. Chang The United States should immediately extend diplomatic recognition to the Republic of China. This move will advance the interests of 23.8 million people of Taiwan, help [...]

TO THE EDITOR: It would be unwise for America to construct policy on the basis of Gordon G. Chang's belief that China's economy will stagnate and its political system collapse [...]

IN HIS recent book, The Age of Turbulence, Man Greenspan identifies the only nation that, in his view, can challenge the United States for world economic leadership a quarter-century from [...]

WHILE IRAQ continues to dominate the news in America and to haunt the Bush administration, events of potentially greater significance are occurring elsewhere. With little opposition from a distracted Washington, […]

THIRTY YEARS ago this past September, Mao Zedong, hero to the Chinese nation, died in the Communist-party compound in the center of Beijing. During his tumultuous life he played many [...]

China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future--And the Challenge for America by James Kynge Houghton Mifflin. 217 pp. $25.00 China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy [...]

The politico-economic issues before China, under Chinese Communist Party, are discussed.

With thoroughness and speed, police in Beijing rounded up participants in a private gathering, held on May 3, that marked the 25th anniversary of the 1989 protests, which were ended [...]

Byline: Gordon G. Chang Steam venting from the complex that houses the Soviet-era reactor in Yongbyon, spotted in satellite imagery taken at the end of August and released last month, [...]

Byline: Gordon G. Chang Dharamsala, India At the Tibetan Children's Village, where India's high mountains meet the first row of the Himalayas, the latest arrival is a two-and-a-half-year-old girl, who [...]

Byline: Gordon G. Chang On September 7, a particularly aggressive Chinese fishing boat captain, Zhan Qixiong, rammed his vessel, the Minjinyu 5179, into two Japanese patrol boats after he refused [...]

The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations? by Ian Bremmer (Portfolio, 240 pp., $26.95) 'Now that the free market has failed, what do [...]

As President Barack Obama takes his first trip to China, Beijing officials are in a triumphal mood, anticipating a 'Chinese century' and looking forward to making the oblivious American leader [...]

When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order, by Martin Jacques (Penguin, 576 pp., $29.95) THIS book says we [...]

On August 29, the North Korean government released four South Korean fishermen whose boat had strayed into Northern waters a month earlier. The return of the crew came shortly after [...]

Last Tuesday, Brazil, Russia, India, and China--the so-called BRIC nations--met in Yekaterinburg, Russia, for what was supposed to be an anti-American gabfest. The main agenda item for the first formal [...]

In 1996, Min, then in her mid-20s, expressed disbelief when she first heard of the massacre in Tiananmen Square. The tragedy had come up in a casual dinner conversation I [...]

WHEN JIABAO was confident, even smug, at the World Economic Forum in Davos this year. The Chinese premier relished criticizing America's 'unsustainable model of development' and touting his own country's [...]

As Beijing celebrates the 30th anniversary of its reform era this month--generally considered to have begun with the accession of Deng Xiaoping--the dominant narrative in the world is that this [...]

THREE WEEKS AFTER THE outbreak of violence in southwest China, Beijing's officials have apparently restored order. Before they were able to do so, they often spoke in grim terms. Tibet [...]

'WE THINK THAT ONE OF the strongest means by which to improve transparency is the mil-to-mil relationship,' said Condoleezza Rice last week in Beijing. 'That has really accelerated over the [...]

To THE EDITOR: Gordon G. Chang's article misunderstands China in a way that is typical of Westerners who look at the country through a certain ideological lens ['China in Revolt,' [...]