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Entries in 2009

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NOVEMBER 2009 

• The US Needs to Socialize into East Asia
  Nov 11 | Zhengxu Wang
  In participating in the integration of East Asia, the US needs to demonstrate a commitment to the development of the region rather than just the protection of its own interests.

SEPTEMBER 2009 

• China's soft power handicaps
  Sept 2 | Yiyi Lu
  In the foreseeable future, domestic problems such as poor product safety standards will effectively act as a rein on Beijing’s international soft power ambitions.

• Regaining public trust in the legal system
  Sept 1 | Yiyi Lu
  New measures such as making court verdicts available online are desperately needed to restore faith in the system.

JULY 2009 

• EU-China cooperation deepens 20 years after Tiananmen
  Jul 20 | Yiyi Lu
  The EU’s relations with China show deepening cooperation 20 years after the Tiananmen incident.

• Xinjiang riots a challenge for China’s ethnic policies
  Jul 14 | Hongyi Lai
  The violence in Urumqi in which 184 people were killed highlights the seriousness of the challenge to China’s ethnic policies posed by the eight million Uygurs and also by the Tibetans.

• Cross-Strait cultural exchanges key to sustaining political trust
  Jul 1 | Zhengxu Wang
  Lasting political trust can only come about when people in Taiwan and on the Mainland appreciate each other’s cultural products and values.

JUNE 2009 

• Financial crisis: Catalyst of China’s rise
  Jun 30 | Shujie Yao
  Chinese firms have embarked on their new Long March into the global economy – and they will come back stronger every time.

• Let Rio deal be a lesson in M&A strategy
  Jun 18 | Shujie Yao
  Chinese firms face an uphill task in expanding overseas due to cultural, economic, political and legal differences with their foreign counterparts.

• China will learn from failed Chinalco-Rio deal
  Jun 11 | Shujie Yao
  The failed $19.5 billion-deal between Chinalco and Rio Tinto is a reminder to Chinese leaders of the challenges to their "go-out" strategy.

• China’s road to democracy: Building pluralism into the one-party system
  Jun 10 | Zhengxu Wang
  The most effective way to introduce democratic elements under a one-party regime is to allow society greater autonomy in the civil and political spheres.

MAY 2009 

• Today, revolution seems to be all about a dinner party
  May 11 | Zhengxu Wang
  “Revolution” as Mao saw it refers to actions that benefit the people or the nation. In this regard, “doing revolution” these days seems to be about building relations at the dinner table.

APRIL 2009 

• China emerges as the big G20 winner
  Apr 20 | Shujie Yao
  In the future, the G20 is to replace the G7 -- and the G8 which includes Russia –  in terms of importance and China has emerged as the biggest winner in world affairs as a result.

• China does not have to over-commit itself despite international responsibilities
  Apr 16 | Yongnian Zheng
  As a rising power, China cannot shirk its international responsibilities. Yet it also does not have to over-commit itself, or even to fight for international leadership prematurely.

MARCH 2009 

• China should build Renminbi in pursuit of fairer international economic order
  Mar 31 | Yongnian Zheng
  China should seek to build the Renminbi as a reserve currency in its pursuit of a multi-polarised and fairer global financial and economic system.

• China has to revise “no debate” stance to establish shared values
  Mar 19 | Yongnian Zheng
  China’s ruling Communist Party has to revise its “no debate” stance to allow it to clarify its reform direction and establish shared values to bring together an increasingly divided society.

• China should guard against a domestic financial crisis
  Mar 13 | Yongnian Zheng
  China has to invest more in building its social system while guarding against corruption that may result from its four-trillion-yuan economic stimulus plan to avert potential domestic crisis.

FEBRUARY 2009 

• China should abolish rural migrant worker system
  Feb 25 | Yongnian Zheng
  China should abolish its rural migrant worker system, which poses a serious systemic threat to the country’s social and political stability.

• Obama and the re-emergence of China’s awareness of change
  Feb 11 | Yongnian Zheng
  While US President Obama grapples with the uphill task of turning political support into real policies, Chinese leaders need to find an alternative means to harness the power of change in the absence of democracy.

• China is part of Taiwan too
  Feb 3 | Zhengxu Wang
  Despite their overlapping claims of sovereignty, the belief of the people living on either side of the Taiwan Strait that they somehow belong to one entity should create a supportive climate for generating concrete solutions.

JANUARY 2009

• China's hope lies in education reform
  Jan 28 | Yongnian Zheng
  China’s hope lies in reforming its education system and educationalists fulfilling their social responsibility.

• Chinese Communist Party must strengthen its position as principal of reform
  Jan 16 | Yongnian Zheng
  The Chinese Communist Party has to strengthen its position as principal of reform through providing clarity in policy direction to take China’s reform to the next level.

• Pursuit of universal values, not ideological debates, leads to social progress
  Jan 6 | Yongnian Zheng
  It is the pursuit of means, rather than ideological debates, for the realisation of universal values that provides the impetus for social advancement.

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