CAPP Newsletter Archive: September 2004
September 2004 Table of Contents
Message from the Director
CAPP
in the News
New RAND Publications on Asia
CAPP
News and Events
Recommended
Resources
Message
from the Director
We hope all subscribers had pleasant summers. This issue of the newsletter
focuses on commentary and analysis on China's economy and diplomacy, as
well as a visit by Dr. Henry Kissinger.
—Nina Hachigian, CAPP Director
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What's
in a Motto?
Commentary by Evan Medeiros
South China Morning Post - June 24, 2004
China¹s leaders are conducting an important policy debate. Officials and
scholars are discussing whether the concept of "China's peaceful rise" should
be adopted as the motto for its rapidly expanding role in international politics.
This debate is a reminder of China's effort to shape external perceptions,
as its power and influence expand.
China's
Rising Unemployment Challenge
Commentary by Charles Wolf, Jr.
Asian Wall Street Journal - July 7, 2004
The strains and stresses that will result from the masses of China's unemployed and underemployed labor are difficult to assess but hard to overestimate. China's employment problems are a deeper, more long-term, and potentially more serious challenge to economic and social stability than is the temporarily high temperature of its economy.
Global
Business
Stokes May Reap China Bonanza
William Overholt quoted
Business Review Weekly - June 8, 2004
In
an article about the demand for construction equipment in China,
William Overholt, Asia policy chair at RAND, states that China
is making a "massive shift of its national resources from
unproductive uses in dead state enterprises and farms."
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Shanghaied?
The Economic and Political Implications of the Flow of Information
Technology and Investment Across the Taiwan Straitt
By Michael Chase, Kevin Pollpeter, and James Mulvenon
The
flows of trade and investment across the Taiwan Strait have
increased dramatically in recent years, driven largely by the
increasing integration of the information technology (IT) sectors
of Taiwan and China. This report examines the economic and
political implications of cross-Strait flows of technology
and capital and analyzes the investment and IT transfer dynamics
between Taiwan and China and their implications for U.S. policymaking.
It concludes that controls on IT would be detrimental to the
U.S. economy, impossible to enforce in a global economy, and
would not have a meaningful impact on U.S. security.
Read the report
Proceedings
of the 6th Annual RAND-China Reform Forum Conference: August
28-29, 2003
Edited by Bijian Zheng and Charles Wolf, Jr.
Since 1998, the China Reform Forum in Beijing and RAND have jointly organized an annual conference of experts from China and the U.S. The conference focuses on economic and political-security subjects of mutual concern to China and the United States. This volume contains papers and discussant comments from the 2003 conference.ts.
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CAPP News
and Events
Dr.
Henry Kissinger Visits RAND
Former U.S. Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger visited RAND in late July
for briefings and discussions with RAND researchers. Topics included future
technology trends, nuclear weapon proliferation, political and economic trends
within China, and counterterrorism. Read
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RAND
Welcomes Top Japanese Security Experts
On August 30, RAND welcomed two preeminent Japanese security experts, Satoshi
Morimoto, a former director of the security policy office in the Japan Defense
Agency and a widely respected defense intellectual, and Takashi Kawakami, a
former foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Kaifu and Professor of International
Relations at Hokuriku University. Rachel Swanger chaired the session in which
Bruce Bennett, Nina Hachigian, Norman Levin and Jed Peters also participated.
The group discussed the impact of the U.S. Global Posture Review on Japanese
defense policy, Japanese and U.S. policy toward North Korea, and Japanese attitudes
toward China.
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