Commentary / World Dec 30, 2018
by Brahma Chellaney
Deng's refusal to truly liberalize China has imposed enduring costs on the country, which increasingly bends reality to the illusions that it propagates.
Editorials Dec 22, 2018
Forty years ago, Beijin embarked on an economic program that has transformed the China and the world.
Asia Pacific | FOCUS Dec 14, 2018
40 years in the making: Five lives changed by China's reforms
China's policy of "reform and opening up" has brought monumental changes to the world's most populous country since its launch 40 years ago under leader Deng Xiaoping. Next week, China will mark the anniversary of the shift, agreed to at a Communist Party gathering ...
Asia Pacific Dec 3, 2018
China 'going further backward' under Xi, veteran democracy activist Wei Jingsheng says
Exiled Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng has lived a good life in the United States for more than 20 years. But the man often called the father of his country's modern democracy movement still welcomes visitors the Chinese way — by offering them a cigarette. In a ...
National / History Dec 31, 2014
Japan, China had agreement to maintain Senkaku status quo, Suzuki-Thatcher files show
by William Hollingworth
The two countries agreed to avoid discussing their claims to the islets, according to newly released documents on a 1982 conversation between Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Commentary / World Sep 8, 2014
Down with Dengism, an obstacle to progress
by Minxin Pei
While former leader Deng Xiaoping — whose birth 110 years ago was recently celebrated in China — deserves appreciation for having brought China back from the abyss of Maoism, his approach, "Dengism," is now impeding the country's economic prospects.
Editorials Aug 27, 2014
Seventeen years after his death, Deng Xiaoping's grip on China remains as tight as ever.
Commentary / World | COUNTERPOINT May 24, 2014
Tiananmen Square stokes patriotic education
by Jeff Kingston
Last week, I discussed the prelude to the Tiananmen Square uprising and the ruthless government crackdown on June 4, 1989. The slaughter of students and their supporters who gathered in Beijing in the spring of 1989 and occupied Tiananmen Square for seven weeks made ...