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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As India and China continue to grow in prominence, each nation has certain advantages, but neither one is primed to have clear across-the-board competitive advantages over the other.
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Describes and analyzes the leadership, structures, and interactions governing the formulation and implementation of China's national security strategy and resulting foreign and defense policies.
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This document provides options for U.S. policy that will enhance China's participation in the control of international transfers of destabilizing military or dual-use technology.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
China — Jan 1, 1996
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Understanding a health problem and even having the technological capability to solve it are often not enough to lead to changes in health policy. To help accomplish such policy changes, the authors propose a five-step approach.
REPORT
For more than 40 years, the China-Taiwan conflict has effectively institutionalized the outcome of China's 1945-49 civil war.
REPORT
Key economic and military trends in China, Taiwan, the United States, Japan, Korea, and India will likely indicate the future of Asia's security environment.
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This report analyzes the implications of political-military, social, intellectual, and economic change within China for the evolution of Chinese foreign policy. Such analysis discerns whether and how the profound changes under way in China could prove adverse to U.S. interests in Asia.
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This report analyzes the forces inside and outside the U.S. government that shape policy toward China, focusing on the reversal of policy that President Clinton announced in May 1994, when China's trade status was delinked from its human rights record.
RESEARCH BRIEF
Powerful domestic changes have driven Taiwanese leaders to walk a narrow and perilous path between confrontation and conciliation with China.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Some of the experiences of Taiwan in formulating a market-based health care system may be relevant to countries looking to the market to reform their health system.
REPORT
The China Health Insurance Experiment (CHIE) was designed to test insurance as an alternative for health care financing in rural China.
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Hui Wang's treatise on the transformation of the Chinese economy from a centrally planned to a market system.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
This paper analyzes a central part of China's one-child policy: when do eligible couples sign the one-child certificate and what are important socioeconomic determinants of this decision?
RESEARCH BRIEF
Whatever direction events in the Asian Pacific take, China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) will likely play a pivotal part in China's evolution. This brief summarizes the PLA's political-military system and likely role in the succession process.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
While it is typically assumed that the hazard of conception of a susceptible woman is either constant or decreasing, the authors find evidence that the hazard is increasing with the duration of marriage in China.
REPORT
This Note develops three small aggregate models of growth in China. Each of these models is designed to highlight different aspects of China's growth prospects.
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Examines the development experiences of South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong to derive lessons that may aid in designing development strategies relevant to Hainan's policy decisions.
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