China and the Asia-Pacific
New Sino-Mongolian Oil Deal Undercuts Russia’s Old Role
May 9, 2013
Mongolian Petroleum Authority Chairman G. Ulziiburen announced in mid-March that Mongolia had made an agreement with PetroChina—a subsidiary of China National Offshore Oil Corporation—to exchange crude oil drilled in Mongolia...
China’s Iraq Oil Strategy Comes Into Sharper Focus
May 9, 2013
March 19 marked the ten-year anniversary of the United States invasion of Iraq that toppled the government of Saddam Hussein. Although the international community continues to focus on the violence plaguing post-war Iraq and the...
The “Two Incompatibles” and PLA Self-Assessments of Military Capability
May 9, 2013
Recently, a Beijing-based defense attaché from a NATO country was reported saying, “Our assessment is they [the People’s Liberation Army] are nowhere near as effective as they think they are” (Foreign Policy, May/June 2013)....
Binding the Baton: Expanding Police Power, Improving Accountability
May 9, 2013
Since Xi Jinping’s assumption of the posts of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary and commander-in-chief last November, much attention has been paid to his instructions about raising the army’s ability to “get ready...
China’s Response to Pentagon Report “Baseless, Counterproductive”
May 9, 2013
The congressionally-mandated Annual Report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China has riled Beijing since its inception. Chinese leaders have resented being singled out, calling the report...
China Claims a Share in Kashagan, Kazakhstan Confirms
May 1, 2013
On April 16, Kazakhstan’s Oil and Gas Minister Sauat Mynbayev made a statement that drew much attention from both domestic and international media and should certainly have been widely commented on in several capitals, including...
China’s Strategic Recalibration in Burma
April 25, 2013
When Chinese President Xi Jinping met with his Burmese counterpart U. Thein Sein in Sanya on April 5, the usual sunny platitudes about enhancing “all-round cooperation” were dampened by veiled references to the threat of Western...
China’s Defense White Paper: A New Conceptual Framework for Security
April 25, 2013
China organized this year’s defense white paper around the historic missions concept as the principal framework for understanding the mission and activities of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The concept of “core interests,”...
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