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.

Willy's Corner
China’s Remnant Liberals Keep Flame of Liberalization Alive
February 3, 2012
China seems to have entered deep winter as far as political reform and human rights are concerned. While the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership seems to have pulled out all the stops to stifle dissent, intellectuals both...
China in 2012: Political Challenges in China’s Economic Governance
January 20, 2012
Just as in the political and social arenas, the economic focus of the Hu Jintao-Wen Jiabao administration in 2012 will be upholding stability. In view of factors including the Eurozone debt crisis—which will impact on China’s...
The Grim Future of the Wukan Model for Managing Dissent
January 6, 2012
The apparently peaceful resolution of the “land grab” crisis in the Guangdong village of Wukan has been hailed as Beijing’s new model for tackling dissent. Last September, 15,000 peasants in Wukan in southeastern Guangdong...
Beijing Adopts Multi-Pronged Approach to Parry Washington’s Challenge
November 30, 2011
Relations between China and the United States have taken a confrontational turn in the wake of a series of initiatives taken by President Barack Obama in his recent trip to Hawaii and Asia. While taking part for the first time in...
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