Losing Face: Why China Can't Stop Squandering Its Soft Power
Though the country has become the world's second largest economy, its leadership is struggling with the spotlight, and with the global expectations that accompanied their rise.… More »
Damien Ma is a China analyst at Eurasia Group. He writes on Chinese energy policies and climate change, politics, innovation, U.S.-China relations, social policies, and Internet policies, among other topics. He has written for Slate, The New Republic, and Forbes.
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Though the country has become the world's second largest economy, its leadership is struggling with the spotlight, and with the global expectations that accompanied their rise.… More »
A sample screenplay for China's biggest real-life political drama in decades.… More »
The legacy of the cultural revolution still hangs over China, something that the next generation of rulers knows all too well.… More »
Outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao called for reducing growth, a sign of China's concerns about rising inequality.… More »
Meet Eric X. Li, a believer in the Chinese model of governance who is pitching it to Western audiences.… More »
Beijing wants to team up with American filmmakers to produce more Chinese films, but politics can sometimes supersede art.… More »
The story of OMG! Meiyu, Jessica Beinecke's wildly popular web video series for Chinese who want to learn American slang.… More »
A promising new documentary on individual Chinese workers at Foxconn… More »
China's central challenge now is remedying the social consequences and cleavages that its growth has wrought.… More »
Beijing is making some much-needed changes, but will they work?… More »
A controversial essay by Chinese President Hu Jintao may be more about the leadership's concerns about their own rule than about clashing with the West… More »
With the fate of the Eurozone, North Korea, and other governments in question, will the new year prove as politically momentous as 2011?… More »
The Chinese leadership will face daunting challenges in the coming year… More »
Is Kim Jong-il's son crazy enough to succeed his father?… More »
The fumbles of the government were amplified this year through the growing power of microblogging… More »
The film focuses on the lives of three men: a Chinese farmer in Zambia, a Chinese project manager for a road project, and a Zambian Trade minister… More »
All of them spent their formative years in American education institutions (not to mention Parisian debutante balls) and seem to have entered high-power private sector professions… More »
The Obama administration's trade agenda has Beijing upset. What will happen to unfinished Chinese reforms in a post-WTO world?… More »
Three years ago, China was set for a revolution in electricity-powered vehicles. So much for that.… More »
Income inequality, a feeling of disenfranchisement, and a sense of injustice are fueling popular curiosity about the movement, in which a number of Chinese see parallels with their own complaints against their government… More »
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