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Media Kit
2015/2016
What Is Global Asia?
What’s in the journal?
Who writes for us?
Who are our readers?
Why advertise with us?
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Media Kit 2015/2016 overview
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maritime ambitions may spell trouble with China Wijayanto Samirin & Satu Limaye giving Thais the freedom and power to speak up
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A focus on how the industry of ideas has spread Korea Veteran scholars Ezra Vogel and Zhang Yunling in
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robert e. mccoy History’s lessons for the North rupakjyoti borah How to choose
looks at the regional, Chinese and Japanese experience nuclear standoff and why the Six-Party Talks stalled and China? India faces a strategic dilemma
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>>> Global Asia is a quarterly journal published by the East Asia Foundation since 2007.
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Spring 2015 Winter 2014 •A selection of feature articles on pressing economic social and political affairs across Asia.
•In Focus, a section offering an explanatory, analytical mini-package on an issue of interest across Asia.
GEOPOLITICAL CHALLENGES IN ASIA: ESSAYS
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Bharat Dahiya Southeast Asia Confronts the imPACt of soCiAl mediA in AsiA: essAYs
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Robert S. Ross, Øystein Tunsjø, Walter Russell Mead, the Problems of Sustainable Urbanization Thomas Crampton, David Bandurski, Hu Yong, Yoshihide soeya & geun lee Japan, South Korea
Zhu Feng, Takashi Inoguchi, Byong Moo Hwang,
Joon Chon, Sung-Won Shin, Taehwan Kim & Kent
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E. Calder Gareth Evans The Jakarta Declaration on Nuclear
Weapons: the Push for a Worldwide Arms Ban
Chang, Shin Mizukoshi, Jonathan Berkshire Miller,
Mong Palatino, Long S. Le and Andy Yee
and the Middle Power Challenge in East Asia
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POST-REFORM MYANMAR: A WOLF IN SHEEP’S
By Bertil Lintner
CLOTHING In Focus: The Future of East Asian Alliances
Essays by Mark Beeson, Thomas Fingar and
Xi JinPing And ‘PrAgmAtiC’ offensive reAlism
By Zhang Baohui
Where Does Thailand Go Now?
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THE DEBATE: WHAT NEXT FOR
CHINA’S ANTI-CORRUPTION DRIVE?
Willy Wo-Lap Lam Squares Off Against Zhao Chenggen
Book Reviews by Nayan Chanda,
Ali Wyne, John Delury & Taehwan Kim
the debAte: should south KoreA Co-oPerAte
with the united stAtes on missile defense?
Kang Choi and Wooksik Cheong square off
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indonesiA And the ChAllenges of growth: essAYs bY Plus LOOKING BEYOND HARD POWER DIPLOMACY: ESSAYS BY PLUS
Yun Byung-se, Richard Ned Lebow, Tae-Seop Bahng, Charles Andrew billo A Way to Peace in the South China Sea Mel Gurtov, Miroslav Nincic, Walter C. Clemens, Jr., rudiger frank Rolling Reforms: Reflections Gilbert Rozman, Takashi Inoguchi, David Shambaugh, Jennifer Lind Beware the Tomb of the Known Soldier Patrick M. Cronin, Michael McDevitt, Wu Xinbo, Georgiy Voloshin China as a Stabilizer in Central Asia
Dewi Fortuna Anwar, Stephen Norris, James Castle, Jonathan berkshire miller Politics Continues to Chill Nicholas J. Cull, Keith Dinnie, Zhou Qingan, Kazuo Yukiko Fukagawa Asia in the Global Financial Storm
A. Kupchan, Wang Yizhou, Yoshihide Soeya, Alexandre Y. Jung-sun Park Why ‘Gangnam Style’ Isn’t Hallyu Style Karin J. Lee, Andrei Lankov, Troy Stangarone, Stuart on Visits to Kim Jong Un’s North Korea Joon Hyung Kim, Haksoon Paik, Leon V. Sigal, Donald K. Emmerson, Malcolm Fraser, Richard A. Bitzinger, Ramesh Thakur The New Great Game in Afghanistan
A. Lin Neumann, Erry R. Hardjapamekas and Japan-South Korea Relations
J. Thorson, Hyunjin Seo, Trita Parsi & Nicholas Farrelly
Shalendra D. Sharma From Meltdown to Bounceback: Ogoura, Yul Sohn, Wu-Suk Cho & Alison Broinowski Le Dinh Tinh Seeking Co-operation Along the Mekong
Jonathan Berkshire Miller & Lilia Shevtsova Kang Choi & Noboru Yamaguchi
north KoreA’s leAder Cements his power: essAYs bY plus Adil W. Surowidjojo & Syed Farid Alatas Andy Ye Why Taiwan’s ICT Sector Needs a New Model
Mansourov, Myung-bok Bae & Mohamed Jawhar Hassan Chung-in moon North Korea vs. South Korea:
What Will It Take to End 60 Years of War?
Cheol hee Park The Double Life of Shinzo Abe
stein tønnesson Steps Forward for China THE TPP AND THE QUEST fOR EAST ASIAN REGIONALISM
How South Korea Weathered the 2008 Financial Crisis
CREATING A NEw wORLd OF SOCIAL ENTERPRISES
Tridivesh Singh Maini & Manish Vaid
The Emerging Role of Indo-Pakistan Border States DIGITAL DIPLOMACY: A NEW FRONTIER OR SIMPLY A DELUSION? Ghulam Faruq Achikzad Stop Meddling
and Declare Afghanistan a Neutral State
MAKING SENSE OF RUSSIA’S PUSH TO LOOK EAST: ESSAYS BY PLUS
non-western demoCrACies And AsiAn PolitiCAl sYstems JAPAn’s dAngerous gAmble on ‘AbenomiCs’ Andy Yee When Will Japan Tap Its Internet Potential? Victoria Esser Squares Off Against Hyun Cho
Tsuneo Akaha, Stephen Blank, Nodari Simonia,
Pavin Chachavalpongpun Western Pragmatism Trumps
Seong-chang Cheong, Chang-hyun Jung, Yeon-chul Kim, manish vaid & tridivesh singh maini
ChinA’s new Air Zone And the eAst ChinA seA disPutes
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Human Security Concerns in Myanmar By Alexei D. Voskressenshi. haruki wada Korea’s War, Armistice and Legacy
book reviews by John Delury, Taehwan Kim,
By Gongpil Choi
to Resolve the South China Sea Disputes
mark J. valencia & hong nong Exploring Joint
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THE DEBATE: IS THE TPP AIMED AT THWARTING CHINA?
Saroj Kumar Rath Drugs in India Are a Security Threat
Reflections by Won-soon Park & Tae-won Chey
dRAwING A LINE IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA
Young-hoon Lee Economic Reform in North Korea
Peter Hayes A Breakthrough Six-Party Summit in 2013? HIGH-STAKES DRAMA: THE SOUTH CHINA SEA DISPUTES
Philipp Olbrich & David Shim
South Korea’s Quest for Global Influence
Daniel M. Kliman Advantage India: Why China
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Paul evans The Passing of Robert Scalapino, Kim Kyung Development Possibilities in the South China Sea Wang Yong Squares Off Against Takashi Terada By Nguyen Manh Hung By Mark J. Valencia
Victor Sumsky, Taehwan Kim, Evgeny Kanaev,
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Dong Wook Won, Rüdiger Frank, Glyn Ford, Walter C.
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Andrew Markus Squares Off Against Graeme McGregor Have Possible in mAlAYsiA?
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2013 2013 2013 2013
Alternative Votes A Farewell to Gamble: ‘Abenomics’
Roller-Coaster Ride
in the Asian-Pacific Century,
So Must the United States
Daily closing prices for Japan’s benchmark
‘Non-Western’ Democracies
Nikkei
Trans-Pacific
Cosmopolitanism?
225 Index between the day Shinzo
And Its Implications
Abe took office
on Dec. 26, 2012, and June 13, 2013.
Soaring
and Asian Political Systems By Patrick M. Cronin
prices reflecting confidence in Abenomics
gave way to investor jitters in mid-May
amid worry at the risks the policy runs.
By Alexei D. Voskressenski By Gongpil Choi
From Meltdown to Bounceback
Western Liberal Democracy
South Korea. But i
most profound. De
On the Passing of
to open china to th
Asia’s rapid economic emergence of near-double-dig
under political systems relatively
less
Robert Scalapino,
trillion-dollar forei
liberal than Western democracies As the world’s center of economic
How South Korea Weat
— or not democratic at all — has world’s workshop,
long We live in a century likely to
hered
fueled debate about the forms of gravity continues to shift to the be dominated
governance that best deliver prosperity by the rise of asian-Pacific power. est or near-largest t
Kim Kyung Won and
this trend is
and peace to their citizens. Given Asia-Pacific region, the US decision
the 2008 Financial Crisis
Pacific neighbors. u
the cultural, historical and religious Since 1990, Japan has been mired
not new. During the last half of the th
20 century,
differences between Asia and the in a seemingly to refocus its foreign policy toward asian economies expanded at nearly in the past decade
West, is it time for a concept of non- endless struggle to get its massive
twice the
Yamamoto Tadashi
only to canada as a
Western democracy, wonders Alexei economy Asia is motivated by both long- rate of the rest of the world. While
the asian fi-
D. Voskressenski. off of life support following the implosion nancial crisis of 1997-98 briefly Between now and 2
By Shalendra D. Sharma of its term interests and short-term trimmed that
pace, the resilient region’s rise has been expected to enable
asset-price bubble after it peaked events, such as China’s more
rekindled,
in 1989. accelerated in part by america’s response
to the
to join the ranks of t
The economic and poliTical DESPITE A lOng PErIOD of constructive
rise of the quite as their student, but many conversations Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is determined aggressive behavior in the tragedy of 9/11 and mounting debt. pace and scope of c
to break
By Paul Evans
non-Western world in the second economic and social transformation Future historians writing about the st far unprecedented in
half of the in most of and occasional collaborations that cycle, as is the Bank of Japan. East and South China Seas. 21 cen-
20th century brought to the fore the
issue of de-
Asia, the reduced likelihood of major
inter-state of track-two dialogues,
in the fecund era But the bank’s ThrouGhou T ThE JApAnEsE tury will focus on crucial turning ain 155 years to doub
network building and decision to pump vast sums of money economy dissipates and the future points. One
Limited Liberal Democracy
Westernization, raising the idea that war, and the current dynamism bur-
culture, his- South Koreans remember the acute of trans-bor- multilateral processes into the economy’s roller-coaster ride of the
den of unwinding the policy becomes But that doesn’t mean it is a milestone will take place in less than
four years:
tory and civilization are probably humiliation of the 1997- der human and cultural flows, this across the Pacific and in country’s financial system is fraught past several months, many econ- according to the Organization for
important factors for determining
the most 1998 Asian financial crisis, when
the mighty export powerhouse The GlobAl FInAncIAl cRISIS
is a moment Asia that proliferated
of rising nationalism, strategic tension, as the Cold War receded. with risks clearer. The Bank of Japan’s belated
adop- veiled strategy to contain a rising economic Because we li
the of 2008, when it took economies power that could backfire, harming the omists and other observers have
China, writes Patrick M. Cronin.
co-operation and Development,
was forced to go hat-in-hand for which was triggered in the world’s on average more than a Amid the ocean of commentary global economy, tion of QE is seen as a last-ditch, china’s gross
type of market, political system
and a bailout to the International largest econo- decade to regain their transition and uncertainty. leadership,
wisdom issues and domestic and
on policy,
writes Gongpil Choi.
become concerned about the future
con- attempt to revive the Japanese
desperate domestic product will surpass that the US is righ
Participatory Democracy
pre-depression per capita of the united
regime that a given state will adopt. Monetary Fund. Not so during the my, the United States, left no country
unscathed GDP, it will take time and deep understanding are in short regional dynamics, it sequences of the Bank of Japan’s current economy. In this States at the end of 2016. Seeking to
2008 global financial crisis. supply. is unfortunate that so little attention essay, I will provide the background capitalize on
power to seize
Sovereign Democracy
Several countries in asia — a region — although the severity and impact before per capita growth Between november 2011 and July focuses policy of quantitative easing (QE), behind Abe-
that, Although hard hit, South Korea bounced of the crisis and employment reach 2012, the on the intellectual leaders espe- nomics and draw implications these trends, the australian government
Controlled Democracy
recently
as a whole, embarked on the path back rapidly, while varied widely from country to country. pre-crisis levels. Rein- Asia-Pacific world lost three individuals who have been the cially its spillover effects for the region for the future of published a volume documenting
of moderniza- the US, Europe and Japan are still Four years hart and Rogoff show
that in 10 of 15 severe post- Three men from who left sinews and brains of the and the Asian regional economy. the coming of vital region. W
tion later than the West — have found
their own struggling. Lessons from the later, many countries are still living
with the ad- World War II financial a major mark on the region’s international
affairs. and emerging architecture.
region’s diplomacy the impact it might have on Japan’s
efforts the “asian century.” Despite the fact
way, different from the Western one earlier crisis provided the foundations verse effects of the “Great Recession.” crises, unemployment did three nations, but robert Scalapino (1919-2011) was Of the three, only to get out of its debt-deflation trap.
Japan has been struggling for years
with the
that popu-
in practical for recovery this time The world’s not return to pre-crisis
levels even after a decade a towering Scalapino wrote a memoir,1 The eco- repercussions of the domestic lous china will continue to lag far
behind in per the future is u
implementation but within parameters
accepted around, writes Shalendra D. Sharma. leading economies, including the US,
europe and (and double-dip recessions one common legacy -- figure in American academic and
Asian policy of travels and events
more a chronicle nomic policies of prime Minister shinzo
Abe ble that burst in the early
asset-price bub- capita income, americans will have
to come to
in democratic and market theory. Japan, have not fully recovered. The occurred in 7 of the circles for more than 60 years. Kim than an intellectual self- — dubbed “Abenomics” — are being 1990s, long before
ing and at the same time preserving
By moderniz-
economy continues to suffer low growth
American 15 crises). In short, meaningful
recovery is likely to have left a lasting mark (1936-2012) was an academic star,
Kyung Won examination, and we
await the biographies that regarded by many as a threat to global
increasingly the current global financial
crisis. This initial
grips with their relative decline. recall
that the
uS ascended to economic pre-eminence fewer than 10 million
and civilization, they have enriched
their culture
unemployment, while the eurozone
and high some years away. on international affairs in the policy advisor, diplomat and public
Blue House should follow. This is
a first and personal cut at stability, despite earlier positive responses
financial shock triggered a massive
bal- post-civil War era known as the Gilded
in the
its economic pre-emi
the process is facing an So what explains how South Korea, intellectual their contemporary due to ance-sheet recession in
of global development. existential crisis that could potentially
lead to a 15th largest economy, bucked
the world’s Asia-Pacific and to have nurtured who for more than four decades was legacy and significance. Dec. 26, 2012 their effect on Japan’s recovery. Japan June 13, 2013 period as the world’s largest economy
age. that
population in one-ten
intimately
10,230
It is easy to speak of the American and brought about a liquidity is about to
an informed empathy among
12,445
Today, there are more and more scholars, break-up of the monetary union. this trend? Despite involved in making or commenting Scalap- Quantitative easing, which involves end. although power has been steadily is not far behind chi
both According to experiencing a deep on many of ino, the Korean Kim a central trap, which the Japanese shifting
a vast body of economic scholarship, and wrenching economic and the Japanese Yama- gov-
in Western and non-Western countries,
as well this tepid contraction in the fourth countries in the region. Paul Evans the key decisions in South Korean
foreign pol- moto. Each was well
bank’s injection of liquidity into
the banking ernment sought to from across the atlantic Ocean to the Southeast asia are be
as in my home country, Russia, who recovery, if not stagnation, was to be quarter of 2008, the pays icy and its regional and global roles. known in policy circles in system (primarily through the purchase address by Pacific and
nomic community of t
doubt on theories of Western political
are casting
the wake of such a severe downturn.
expected in Korean economy made
a remarkable V-shaped tribute to the passing of Robert Scalapino, Tadashi (1936- 2012) was a tireless
Yamamoto their own country and
regionally. What makes ernment bonds), is at the core of
of gov- going into fiscal overdrive.
Despite more than
indian Oceans, it has been a long time
since the
uS has been no.2 with respect to Because we live in t
zation (or Westernization) and “democratic
moderni-
In a path-breaking study published
recovery by the second half of 2010,
notching Kim Kyung Won and Yamamoto Tadashi promoter of them collectively interesting
is that despite attempt to extricate itself from chronic
Japan’s latest two decades of these
unconventional measures, such a major
tran- in 2009, an impressive 6.2 percent and ideas, networks, exchanges, and dialogues
with their commitment to their stagna- things have not stabilized. power indicator. Pacific century, the uS
sition” based on a vision of the world
from the
“The Aftermath of Financial crises,”
carmen M. prompted the ever-cautious
growth in 2010, which explains why they were so influential. a focus on Japan’s foreign policy, US-Japan
rela- the management of immediate
own nations and to tion. The us Federal reserve has been
engaged effects of bolder and
Given the temporary Some of the asian prosperity that nomic, political and mi
1980s-90s. These scholars do not Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff claim IMF to announce tions and Asia-Pacific community building. policy problems, in open-ended QE for several years stronger Abenomics, we has blos-
believe that that the that “Korea’s rapid recovery now in an have to consider whether somed in the past few decades can tunity and forestall cha
periods following systemic financial from the global all three took a longer view seeking Japan’s past responses be attributed
Western-style democracies are necessarily crises are downturn has transitioned I only came to know each of them to build effort to spur the us recovery, and to Japan’s economic rebirth after While the promise of
ideal, in the last ideas, institutions and Japan only were correct. The point the Second
and instead see the global political characterized by long, deep recessions into a full-fledged 25 years of their lives. All three had habits of mind that could recently joined the pack. unfortunately is whether Japan could World War, as well as the rise of the future is unpredictable
process as with very expansion” (IMF 2011, near leg- help manage and possibly , the have chosen a different path. asian tiger
based on varied regional and national low growth and high unemploymen 4). Although growth remake us is now considering a gradual It is important to
character- t. Just as global
slowedasia Feature Essay
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endary status by that time. The setting
was not global
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a of democracy, of the 1930s, in the world economy, 82 70
on the to evaluate Abenomics in 8 concept of strategic sur
Park Chung Hee,
South Korea’s economy is full detail.
Opportunities and
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Declassified CIA papers cast new
Challenges for China’s
light on
the CIA & the Bomb
South Korea’s attempt to develop
nuclear
weapons in the 1970s and show
that the
program continued for at least two
after the US thought it had ended.
years New Leaders in Building In the history of modern China,
Hong Kong has frequently played
Peter Hayes & Chung-in Moon
some in South Korea again discussing
a nuclear option, Peter Hayes and
With
Mutual Trust with the World an important role as a bridge in
providing a place and a political
cross-strait political relations,
environment in which Beijing
The change lasT year of the
name of Taiwan’s de facto consular
45-year-old jeou became president
office — from was re-elected to a
of Taiwan
second term ear
the chung Wah Travel agency in hong
The Geneva-based World Economic and Taipei could talk — often secretly Kong to and proposed his “no independen
Forum Chung-in Moon find lessons for today. — to one another.
By Wang Yizhou
the Taipei-hong Kong economic
conducts an annual survey of risk and cultural tion and no war”
formula. Of par
perceptions But with relations between Mainland Office — was a landmark in relations
over the coming decade with the China and Taiwan warming hong Kong and Taiwan. lai shi-yuan,
between tance also was the sealing
of the e
aim of stimulating quickly in recent years, and China chairwom- operation Framework
discussion on possible ways of mitigating realizing the dream asserting greater control over an of Taiwan’s Mainland affairs council agreement (e
them. act as a newly emerging great power Hong Kong-Taiwan relations, that (Mac) The individual travel scheme
In my opinion, the “Chinese dream”
as it is dis- tribute to peace and and con- bridging role may no longer be and the person in charge of its Mainland
china Taiwan, meanwhile, was
for m
Chiemi Hayashi and David Gleicher as important, writes Hong Kong
AB
cussed by Xi and other officials prosperity in east asia, as policies, attended the name-changing implem
discuss the Forum’s Global Risks includes the well as global development. academic Yiu-chung Wong. ceremony. beginning of 2011.
2012 report and how respondents following goals: In fact, all leaders The development was a breakthrough
in Asia, in particular, view those risks. First, to double per capita income
of the PrC have had global ambitions,
although tiations between Beijing and Taipei
for nego- Following the thaw in cross-str
China’s leaders are acutely To beTTer undersTand the their term in office, from the current
during their direction and emphasis
may have differed. two years. relations between Mainland
over the past ties between hong
Kong and Taiw
current chal- $5,000 to For Mao Zedong, it was
eld high- Most people are taught to think
about the the first risk case, “seeds of dystopia,”
aware that the country’s lenge of building mutual trust between $10,000 by 2020. Conservative forecasts to complete the revolu- and Taiwan have greatly improved
china grown warmer. In contrast
to the ye
resump- long-term consequences of their actions, China suggest tion in China and push since Ma ying- wan’s Democratic
but it is from concern that globalization starts growing economic might and its and the world, it is important to understand that China will overtake the united forward the world revo- Progressive Part
ridg
of three a life lesson that is easily forgotten. is not delivering the states as the lution, fighting an
world’s largest economy by the middle international system domi-
seemed this is true on its promises. gallup
both on an individual as well as an organizational polls show that people increasing voice in international background of China’s new leaders,
President Xi of this nated by the West, especially
Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang. They century, when the PrC will celebrate when the red star
posed by level. to try to mitigate the harmful
everywhere perceive their living standards
to be affairs are stirring concerns about generation of leaders born after the
are the first
anniversary. Making up one-fifth
its 100th faded in the soviet union.
For deng Xiaoping,
consequences falling and are losing founding of of the world’s it was to solve the
despite of this bias towards short-term thinking,
each year their governments to deal
confidence in the ability of how it will employ its newfound the People’s republic of China in 1949. population, China is poised to become problem of poverty and eco-
uS joint the World economic Forum poses with this decline.1 as a result, a new- nomic growth in China, gaining
the question, Meanwhile, both the Internet and urbanization power and influence in the they carry fewer historical burdens style great power in the east, relatively more appeal and
Hong Kong’s Diminished Rol
being so than did Mao rich and charm for socialism with
Asian Governance
“What risks should the world’s leaders prosperous, its people living in peace Chinese characteristics
t last? be address- make disparities in wealth
more transparent. Dis- future. That presents China’s new Zedong, deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin
and Hu and work- in an economically globalized
e
ing over the next 10 years?” the most Jintao, who were well aware of the ing in contentment. world. Later lead-
recent re- parities can spur achievement
regime sponses fed into an analysis of three when social mobil- leadership with the daunting experiences of China’s modern history.
humiliating
second, to make strong gains in
ers, namely Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao
and Xi Jin-
major “risk ity is perceived to be technology ping, are following deng’s
in Cross-Strait Relation
ardline cases” presented in the forum’s Global
Risks 2012 ambitious youth feel that
possible. however, when challenge of building trust with It is a sad and well-known fact for national defense and to lay a solid path and emphasizing
foundation China’s role as a responsible
in a Hyperconnected
sudden report, which explores key issues from however hard they work that China,
ge, and population their prospects are constrained, the rest of the world. Wang Yizhou one of the world’s earliest civilizations,
fell into
for national unification, territorial
integrity and
great power.
I believe China’s new leaders are
ageing and cyber crime to the types feelings of disen- the settlement of sovereignty disputes. committed
finally
of regulations gagement and discontent outlines the issues involved. a semi-colonial state following the
First opium Though to leading a peaceful, ascending
No
that safeguard societies and economies. take root. China is now a global power with and constantly
War in 1840, oppressed and humiliated
By Yiu-chung Won
social contracts are breaking down by the worldwide stronger nation dedicated
these three cases investigate different in advanced Western great powers. as a result, influence, most foreigners hardly to the cause of helping
In late facets of economies, as shrinking the Chinese know that to create a more reasonable
a common theme: governance failure workforces have to sup- the Chinese people still have something and just world order,
people underwent revolution and
By Chiemi Hayashi World
rocket, in a “hyper- port growing populations struggle for a pain- thus gaining more respect
connected” world. asia is deeply integrated of the elderly while ful in their hearts. This is the fact that from the world. How-
into their own entitlements are hundred years, leaving deep scars the nation ever, these ambitions
with its the global economy and susceptible being cut. In emerg- on the coun- are encountering some
to exter- ing economies, sluggish try’s political psychology. but Xi and is still not truly unified, because
s took global growth risks dash- Li grew up, of the legacy doubts and challenges.
nal shocks that can reverberate around were educated and pursued their careers of civil war (1946-1949). Taiwan
Mo
untry’s the ing the expectation that a rising during Island is still
world. With over 30 percent of the world’s tide will lift all China’s era of reform and opening, divided politically from the mainland.
& David Gleicher
rocess, boats; in the poorest countries, bulging and therefore There- Challenges, doubts
population, asia provides a microcosm popula- have a tendency to look forward with fore, China’s new leaders will work and triCks
(KIC) of tions of young people lack the confidence. hard to real- First is the suspicion
these risks as they are seen at the skills to succeed or They are leaders fully committed to ize the dream of national unification and resulting containment
S mili- global the right to migrate. deng Xiaop- and integ- policies of the world’s
level. as the risk cases show, better ing’s path of “progress through co-operation rity, which is also why it is vital to modernize superpower. sino-us rela-
of the man- this is a combustible combination, as and the tions are complex, with both
aging demographic shifts, appreciating suggested development from reform.” country’s defense capabilities. besides, positive and nega-
onded by various outbreaks of social unrest China’s tive aspects. In the view
both the opportunities and the risks over the last land boundary and its coastline are of many Chinese peo-
6 7
of year — from greece, Chile and They also have assumed leadership especially ple, the us would like
s, and increased connectivity and developing China to the arab at a cru- to keep close economic
spring and the occupy Wall street cial moment, when this nation is long, with 14 neighbor countries
logue being recog- by land and and trade ties with China,
a new mindset for safeguards will movement. nized as an ascendant power by eight by sea, among which 10 have while at the same time
d as a all be its neighbors long-term making every attempt
vital for maintaining regional resilience and the international community. sovereignty disputes with China, to guarantee that China
2007, Thus China’s varying in won’t be a threat to america’s
and stability in the face of great economic new leaders somehow possess a different nature and degree. Maintaining sovereignty position as a super-
uring and social transformations. global and power. This is the main source
consciousness than their predecessors territorial integrity is one of the most of uncertainty in
esale — more important relations between China
confident, ambitious and enterprising. sources of political legitimacy. as and the world.
To quote a result, Chi- second is the challenge that is posed
Xi, “Leaders in this term of office are na’s modernization of its military by the
hard- shouldering and national anxieties and little
the great mission to realize the dream defense is focused on advances in tricks of China’s neighbors.
3 visit of Chinese quality rather Given t
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