RAND's China experts have examined a wide range of issues, including the country's military, political, and trade relations, especially with Taiwan and Japan; its environmental, economic, and health policies and prospects; and its international business and intellectual property (copyright) challenges.
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Discusses three principal factors upon which stability in China's foreign policy will depend: (1) the directions of the international system as a whole, (2) its manifestations in China's areas of more immediate interest in East Asia, and
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This paper is adapted from essays that will appear in the Britannica Book of the Year--1984. It discusses domestic affairs, economic affairs, and foreign affairs in China during 1983 and political and economic affairs on the island of Taiwan during 1...
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The Reagan Administration on January 11, 1982, announced its decision to deny the Nationalist Government of China's request for aircraft superior to the F-5E Tiger. Instead, the United States granted permission to the Northrop Corporation to extend ...
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This Note reports on a trip to the People's Republic of China (PRC) by the author in June and July 1980.
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Addresses the issue of the remarkable record of a small number of less-developed countries (the so-called Newly Industrialized Countries--especially Korea, Brazil, Taiwan, and Singapore) in realizing sustained economic development in the past decade....
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This essay, written in 1968, views U.S. involvement in terms of Vietnamese history.
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Assesses the probabilities that Japan, Taiwan or South Korea might develop nuclear weapons, and what the consequences of proliferation might be for the People's Republic of China (PRC). The possibility that any of these states might embark on a nucle...
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As of 1978, leaders in Washington and Peking face the choice of either moving toward future cooperation and defusing the dispute over Taiwan by political means, or through inaction dissipating the policy of normalizing relations which was initiated i...
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A December 1973 Columbia University seminar paper, reissued without revision, describing the deliberately ambiguous de facto independence of Taiwan.
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An examination of the political framework within which foreign businessmen must operate on Taiwan. Divided into three parts, the paper discusses: (1) Relevant aspects of Chinese political heritage and its importance in understanding the role of gov...
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This paper reviews several methods of evaluating family planning programs and comments on the strengths and shortcomings of each. Evidence from Taiwan is summarized that indicates how different methods of evaluation can yield different implications ...
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How will the Vietnam war end — or not end? A clear-cut victory by either side seems unobtainable now.
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An evaluation of methods used to infer how activities of a family-planning program influence birth rates. Using data from Taiwan, two models, a simultaneous-equations model and an age-aggregated linear-recursive model, are estimated by means of vari...
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Based on multiple regression models of reproductive behavior, direct assessment of the impact of the Taiwan family planning program on birth rates is shown to imply different conclusions for policy than those implied by earlier studies focusing on th...
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Presents a plausible explanation of Lo's (Lo Jui-ch'ing, Chief of Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA)) purge by linking the documents of the Vietnam debate and the revelations of internal politics during the Cultural Revolution.
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A new approach to evaluating the effectiveness of family planning programs in reducing birth rates. A predictive model incorporates demographic and economic statistics to analyze the relationships between birth rate and various environmental determi...
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Of all state-owned airlines, few seem as intriguing as CAAC, the one belonging to Communist China. It seems strange to find a country the size of China with nuclear technology in one hand and a near-obsolete airline in the other. The current status o...
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This paper proposes a method for answering the question: For a given level of effort, which of the many alternative family planning programs appears preferable? The approach here is to develop a predictive model of human fertility, from which one m...
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A survey of U.S. security interests in Southeast Asia over the next decade.
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An assessment of the impact of China's Cultural Revolution on her Ministry of Foreign Affairs, foreign relations, and foreign policy. In 1966-1967, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs came under attack by Red Guard organizations determined to carry ...
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