Chinese Politics
Deng Xiaoping's introduction of reform and opening-up policies, as well as the economic revival, awakened hope in the West for the democratization of China....
Chinese Politics Articles
China's 2007 National People's Congress
China's National People's Congress: the downside of phenomenal growth The key points At the annual National People's Congress in Beijing, Premier Wen Jiabao...
China's National People's Congress: Structure and Elections
Under China's constitution, the National People's Congress (NPC) is the highest organ of state power in the People's Republic of China, with its Standing Com...
APEC and China
Predecessors of APEC in the Asia-Pacific PAFTA (Pacific Free Trade Area): proposed in 1964 by economist Kiyoshi Kojima as an Asia-Pacific counterpart to the...
Chinas Position in Reforming the UN Security Council
Already in December 2004, a group of international experts tendered recommendations for reforming the United Nations to Secretary General Kofi Annan, includi...
EU-China Relations
Brief historical overview The European Union (EU) was mainly created with the goal of preventing another World War. In 1950 the European Coal and Steel Commu...
Confucianism and Democracy
Cultural theorists see a direct relationship between religious-cultural traditions and their influence on a particular federal constitution. These traditions...
China's Changing Adoption Regulations
China's "one child" policy is infamous in the Western world. Introduced in 1979 as a short-term measure, it was originally intended to help the Chinese work...
China's Changing Adoption Regulations (Page Three)
An Unexpected Change In Policy But in December of 2006, adoption agencies and their clients began to hear rumors of the Chinese government changing their len...
China's Changing Adoption Regulations (Page 2)
Chinese Daughters of the West: A New Aspect Of Modern Culture This phenomenon has sparked a fascination in the United States with the one child policy and th...
Chinese Military
The military in the People's Republic of China is not at all a politically neutral army like in liberal democracies. Army leadership and politics are tightly...