Entries from Need to Know tagged with 'China'
Security Is No Savior to Poor Countries
Paul Collier prescribes peacekeeping to lift the poorest countries from poverty. It won't work.
Beijing's Ballot
McCain or Obama? It's all the same to Beijing.
The Web Won't Set Us Free
The internet will never bring freedom or Western-style democracy - nor should it.
Hu's in Charge?
It won’t matter who China’s president is as long as the Party refuses to consider anything more than cosmetic reform.
A Candle for Tiananmen the Rest of My Life
Hong Kong -- I just returned from a candlelight vigil in Victoria Park where up to 55,000 people (claimed by the organizers; the police estimated 27,000 people) marked the 18th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre. This former British colony has been the only place in China where people have the freedom to commemorate what happened in Beijing on June 4, 1989.
China’s Premier in Japan: Melting Ice or Stoking Fire?
China’s Premier Wen Jiabao travels to Japan this week in what he is calling an “ice melting” visit, the first such visit since 2000. Why are China's leaders so eager to warm relations across the Sea of Japan?
Africa Welcomes Chinese Aid
Africa needs enormous infrastructual investments in excess of $20 billion per year for the next decade. The West has been reluctant to provide this money. Without it, development and poverty reduction cannot happen. China should be allowed to fill the gap.
