Pyongyang’s latest round of provocations has prompted Beijing to reconsider its North Korea policy.
Each time global attention is focused on events in Myanmar, concerned stakeholders turn to China to influence the military government to undertake reforms.
Over the past twenty years China has become an active participant in UN peacekeeping, a development that will benefit the international community.
China’s need for energy is growing faster than any other country’s. Record economic growth results in demand that outstrips domestic supply, leading Beijing to look outward to ensure growth and stability.
Scores of thousands of North Koreans have been risking their lives to escape their country’s hardships in search of a better life, contributing to a humanitarian challenge that is playing out almost invisibly as the world focuses on North Korea’s nuclear program.
China’s influence on North Korea is more than it is willing to admit but far less than outsiders tend to believe.
Shifting power relations in North East Asia are spurring rising nationalism in China, Japan and South Korea, aggravating long-standing disputes over territorial claims and differing interpretations of history.
After drifting toward crisis for much of 2004, the outlook for stability across the Taiwan Strait has improved.
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