Special to WorldTribune.com Almost all decisive strategic victories — winning the peace, not just the battle — derive from the adoption of game-changing capabilities, as well as strategic depth. Competing through linear development of old approaches is expensive and dangerous, especially when budgets are tight. Gregory R. Copley, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Chill winds are […]
By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com The democracy demos in Hong Kong evoke so many memories going back to the late 1960s when I saw thousands pouring on to the streets of what was then a British crown colony brandishing copies of Mao Zedong’s “little red book.” That was the era of the Great Cultural Revolution, and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com A People’s Daily commentary on the one-and-half-year rule of President Xi Jinping has thus characterized the Chinese strongman’s unique approach to foreign policy: alternatively using tough and soft tactics so as to close the gap with the United States as the leading arbiter in global affairs. The extraordinary article, entitled […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com After taking tough measures to silence dissidents and clamp down on the Internet, President Xi Jinping was supposed to have given his blessings to economic reform in the just-ended Central Economic Work Meeting, whose function is to provide a road map for financial and fiscal policies for 2014. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com President Xi Jinping is emerging as China’s undisputed strongman even as whatever little that has remained of the institutional reforms championed by late leader Deng Xiaoping has become increasingly attenuated. Having been a principal victim of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) spearheaded by dictator Mao Zedong, Deng quickly put […]
Sol W. Sanders Despite the ballyhoo, there is little prospect significant reforms will emerge from the current upper echelon Chinese Communist Party meeting. That’s despite virtually all foreign observers and most Chinese experts agreeing major changes are absolutely necessary to continue the past three decades’ fantastic economic progress. China has now reached blocking obstacles, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com While General Secretary and President Xi Jinping has not yet been in office for one year, different factions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are already jockeying for position regarding the identity of Xi’s successor. It was late patriarch Deng Xiaoping who started the tradition called the “cross-generation […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Given the apparent ease with which President Xi Jinping has consolidated his hold on power, it is perhaps not surprising that the princeling (a reference to the offspring of party elders) is actively nurturing the careers of younger members of the “red aristocracy.” In the past year, several […]
John J. Metzler NEW YORK — Dr. Henry Kissinger called for the United States and China to collaborate on a new global order, and a groundbreaking new report, “U.S.- China Economic Relations in the Next Ten Years,” underscored the deepening commercial engagement between the two Pacific powers. Indeed with President Barack Obama meeting his Chinese […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping has concentrated more powers at the top of the party so as to buttress his ability to rule China as a strongman. In a strategic move, Xi, whose other titles include state president and commander-in-chief, has beefed up the organization […]