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Avoiding Mutual Misunderstanding: Sino-U.S. Relations and the New Administration

Martin Gerke — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:21:46 +0000

The head of the Carnegie Endowment’s presence in Beijing Tianjian Shi concludes in his publication about the new phase of the Sino-U.S. relations the following theses:

China policy should be crafted with an understanding of what motivates the Chinese Communist Party’s actions andreactions. China expects the United States to lead during the financial crisis and sees its [...]

Clinton warns China to not repeat the US environmental mistakes

Martin Gerke — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:49:46 +0000

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made the environmental consciousness an issue while visiting China. In her speech she told the audience to not repeat the US approach of handling the industrial fumes:

“What we hope is you don’t make the same mistake we made, because I don’t think either Chinese and the world can afford [...]

Staffers of CPPCC Headquarters urged to study "Scientific Concept of Development"

Martin Gerke — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:50:22 +0000

Jia Qinglin, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), has urged the staff workers with the CPPCC headquarters to further study and practice the “Scientific Concept of Development”.

Jia, who is also member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee’s Political Bureau, called on [...]

Ministry to reveal declassified diplomatic archives

Martin Gerke — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:45:46 +0000

Ministerial archives from between 1961 and 1965 have been declassified and will be officially open for view to the public both at home and abroad, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on November 12.

The archives contain 41,097 items. The proportion of declassified archives dealing with evolving relations between China and the Soviet Union is the [...]