Changing of the Guard: Beijing Grooms Sixth-Generation Cadres for 2020s
Senior Fellow Willy Lam details the major generational changes that will take place in the party-and-state leadership at the 18th Chinese Communist Party Congress set for October 2012.
China's Quasi-Superpower Diplomacy: Prospects and Pitfalls
Senior Fellow Willy Lam examines the ways in which Beijing is waging quasi-superpower diplomacy to bolster China's pre-eminence in the new world order.

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