Ditching U.S.Securities?

Japan overtook China as the largest foreign holder of U.S.Treasury securities at the end of 2009 after China sold $34.2 billion in American securities last December.China had previously surpassed Japan as the largest holder in September 2008.Since then,China has increased and reduced its holding from time to time.The latest amount,however,accounted for 4 percent of all Chinese holdings and was the biggest single month reduction in years.     

MARKET WATCH

China wants to increase its trade with certain EU coun-tries,because it believes the United States is becoming more protectionist with the recentBuy Americanprovision in the U.S.economic stimulus package.China has defied similar trade risks in the past through over-seas acquisitions and by purchasing products made in other countries.Chinalco plans to inject $19.5 billion into debt-ridden RioTinto,and China Minmetals is trying to takeover an Australian zinc producer.At home,the Chinese Government is trying t...     

美国校园陪审团制度的内涵探析

陪审团制度在美国校园准司法审理制度中发挥着举足轻重的作用,它直接决定了当事双方特别是受指控学生实体权利和程序权利能否实现。文章通过对美国斯坦福大学《学生司法宪章》的分析,从陪审团工作的基本原则、性质、组成、工作职责及其决策方式等方面分析了陪审团制度“以学生为本”、追求平等、公正、民主、法治的价值内涵。     

North Korea End-Game or Mid-Game? Some scenarios and their implications for US–China relations

North Korea looms large as a challenge for the United States and China. US–China cooperation in working to deal with the challenge of North Korea is often held up as an example of constructive engagement between Washington and Beijing. Nevertheless, North Korea has the potential to generate discord or even conflict between the United States and China. This paper considers several possible scenarios for North Korea and evaluates the implications of each for the US–China relationship.     

美国政府航空运输业法律规制的历史考察

美国在航空运输业规制改革过程中,以整个政府规制体制的总体框架为依据,制定了完善细致的法律法规。美国航空运输业的飞速发展很大程度上得益于其完备的法律制度。考察美国政府对航空运输业法律规制的历史,对我国当下的民航运输业改革颇有启示:我们要加快行业立法;修改、创制相关法律、法规,为改革提供法律保障;制定反垄断法;完善民航执法制度。     

MARKET WATCH

China adds to its holdings of U.S. Treasury securities for the first time in three months. China’s auto market stages a significant comeback in August as vehicle sales grew 6.29 percent from July figures. The Anshan Iron & Steel Group Corp. concluded an agreement to invest in the United States, ending doubts about the feasibility of the deal. State -owned enterprises raked in juicy profits from January to August this year. China inches up on the global competitiveness ranking list. Global payment giant MasterCard Worldwide predicts China will replace the United States as the world’s top credit card market by 2020.     

The Economics of Power Transitions: Australia between China and the United States

This article examines Sino–Australian economic relations, and their impact on the ties between the United States and Australia. First, drawing on power transition theory, it is argued that in a post-Cold War environment, economic ties play as great a role as strategic relations in determining the orientation of third-party states. Second, it is also argued that Australia's deeper economic and commercial ties with China have usurped a role previously held by the United States. This has forced Australia to pursue a bifurcated foreign policy—one split between its economic and national security needs. Third, these deeper ties with China have generated a degree of alliance drift between Australia and the United States. As a result, there is now a significant debate in Australia over the future of both bilateral relations—even as its space for policy innovation remains limited.     

US–China Relations in the Era of Globalization and Terror: a framework for analysis

The coming decade could provide the opportunity for the United States to consolidate stable Sino–American relations and expand US–China cooperation on a wide range of global and regional issues. Such a constructive relationship would not be conflict-free or without competitive aspects, especially in the political and economic realms, nor is its development inevitable. But the United States is not likely to conclude that a strategy of containment toward China is either necessary or feasible. Similarly, China will likely continue to pursue a strategy of seeking cooperative ties with the United States rather than adopting an anti-hegemonist coalition strategy to counter American power and influence. A key factor underlying this assessment is that ‘globalization’ is reshaping the global strategic environment. In this new strategic situation, the interests of the United States and China will limit strategic competition between them and compel closer cooperation to respond to shared strategic threats and challenges. Globalization has led to converging—though by no means identical—national interests in many critical areas and a common interest in maintaining the overall global system of regimes, treaties and organizations governing international economic, political and security relations to the benefit of both countries. This high-level common interest does not preclude sharp differences over specific issues, but it is likely to create pressure on the United States and China to cooperate in many areas to defend, maintain and strengthen the system and to restrain them from pursuing containment or confrontational strategies toward each other.     

In the Right Direction

In March, the U.S. Congress decided to loosen travel restrictions for Cuban Americans visiting their relatives in Cuba. The Caribbean island nation has been under a commercial, economic and financial embargo imposed by the United States since 1962. Beijing Review reporter Yan Wei spoke to Cuba's Ambassador to China Carlos Miguel Pereira Hernandez about the positive signs between Cuba and the United States as well as China-Cuba relations.     

MARKET WATCH

Funding Retirement State shareholders had transferred nearly 65 billion yuan($9.5 billion)worth of stocks in listed companies to the Social Security Fund(SSF)by March 29,according to a statement from the SSF.     

Nujiang's Miracle

正China eliminated absolute poverty in 2020,attracting the attention of the international community, and bagging the praise and positive comments as well as curiosity and doubt. Some cannot imagine that a country with a population of 1.4 billion has been able to lift all its people out of absolute poverty, completing the poverty reduction goal of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 10 years ahead of schedule.     

美国最高法院性骚扰案件审判概况以及美国反性骚扰立法的发展

本文就美国的性骚扰法律做了一个概述。本文将性骚扰问题界定为权力问题,涉及一人对另一人不公正地行使权力。文章在回顾美国联邦最高法院如何首次承认性骚扰问题为非法的性别歧视的基础上,分析了美国最高法院就性骚扰问题的一些判决。本文中还讨论了联邦反性骚扰法律中的关键法律问题,介绍了州性骚扰法律的发展,强调了性骚扰法律对美国女性的影响,并就中国最近颁布的性骚扰法律的法规制定提出了一些参考建议。     

政府公共服务外包中的循证式管理--来自美国地方政府实践的启示

美国地方政府大规模的市场化改革浪潮中,公共服务外包得到了前所未有的普及,其高质量的发展很大程度上得益于基于证据的公共服务外包循证式管理。本研究关注美国在公共服务外包领域所建立的循证式管理,尤其是其具有实践可操作性的管理模式、实施要点与评价。中国地方政府的公共服务外包正方兴未艾,通过对美国经验的介绍,以期为完善我国循证式管理下的政府公共服务外包,形成我国公共服务外包的科学管理决策模式提供有益的启示和经验借鉴。     

US–China Relations: engagement or talking past each other?

China and the United States have been talking past each other on a variety of issues ever since the normalization process began. To some extent, this enables each side to avoid repercussions from domestic critics and facilitate correct diplomatic relations. But on matters that broadly concern trade, the military, and Taiwan, it can cause considerable friction. Many of the more unpleasant episodes between the two nations have arisen as a result of unexpected and unpredictable events. The United States should address what of the trade imbalance is due to internal shortcomings before pressing the Chinese government to make changes in its economic system. While Washington should be mindful of the security dilemma, it would be unwise to ignore the implications of the PRC's continuing military buildup. Statements of peaceful intentions do not necessarily mean that peace is assured. Iterations of unambiguous commitment to the peaceful resolution of the status of Taiwan are important to the maintenance of peace. The United States and China are linked by market forces that Washington encouraged the creation of. America and China can get along without being enamored of each other's social system.     

金触危机下美国对华贸易保护与中国政府的应对策略——以＂轮胎特保案＂为视角

金融危机导致国际贸易萎缩,继而加剧国际市场竞争,也促使各国采取更为保守的贸易政策和措施,从而加剧国际贸易摩擦。最近发生的轮胎特保案就是由于美国奉行贸易保护政策的典型实例。美国的贸易限制对中国经济的影响非常大,不仅直接影响到中国众多企业的生存发展,而且会对中国整个经济发展带来冲击。如何应对美国对华实施的贸易保护政策已经成为一项非常复杂而又十分紧迫的任务,这其中,政府的引导和协调起着不可替代的主导作用。     

诊所法律教育的状况及其存在问题研究

诊所法律教育是20世纪60年代起源于美国的一种法律教育方法，迄今已在全美法学院普遍施行。我国引入这一教育方法后，已取得初步成效，但也面临着不少问题。本文在描述诊所法律教育在国内外的产生及发展状况的基础上，就诊所法律教育所蕴涵的价值进行了分析，并对其所存在的问题进行了探讨。     

CONFLICT RESOLUTION

New thinking is required to move the China-U.S.relationship forward This is a pivotal moment in the U.S.-China relationship.That is not just because the United States has elected a new president.While the administration of Joe Biden can be expected to conduct a careful reassessment of actions that the United States has taken against China over the past four years,there is little chance of returning to the earlier state of play.     

社区矫正比较研究

我国社区矫正制度尚处于试点阶段,如何确立适合我国发展要求的社区矫正制度,并非易事。本文借鉴英国和美国的经验,提出了建立和完善我国社区矫正制度基本设想。     

The United States and China in the Age of Obama: looking each other straight in the eyes

Though the United States remains atop the world's power hierarchy, it is becoming less dominant, both because of the rise of new power centers and because the problems are becoming larger. The United States now must function in a world of relatively greater power equality and ever-larger problems springing from interdependence. The United States and China now have to look each other straight in the eyes, with the core of their relationship resting on the strategic foundation of stabilization—stabilization of the global economy, global ecosystem, and global security. This essay makes several additional points: (1) China has made some wise domestic and foreign economic policy decisions in the context of the great economic downturn of 2007–2009 that probably will increase the PRC's relative capacities coming out of the downturn; (2) US–China relations are more fundamentally sound than they have ever been before. Both nations' leaders should seize this opportunity to recast their relationship as partners in the effort to build coalitions to address the global system's most pressing challenges; and (3), even with a relatively sound strategic foundation for bilateral relations, when one moves from the general to the specific in important policy domains, it will be exceedingly difficult for Beijing and Washington to reach agreements on how to proceed on many key issues.     

美国民众涉台观点的Biprobit研究——基于美国人对华态度实证调研

自从台湾问题形成以来,美国历任总统都实行“双轨政策”,一方面承认“台湾是中国的一部分”,但又从没有放弃对“台独”的支持,如对台军售。了解美国民众涉台观点的形成和受到哪些因素的影响对我国制定相应的涉台政策有着重要意义。本文先后采用univariateprobit、bivari-ateprobit和seeminglyunrelatedbivariateprobit模型对美国民众在台湾省地位的认同和对台军售支持进行回归分析。分析结果显示美国民众对中国台湾省地位的认同显著地影响对台军售支持,认同“台湾是中国一部分”的美国民众在对台军售方面的支持也显著要高。这充分证实了美国是典型的现实主义者,他利用台湾问题来阻滞中国大陆的发展和海峡两岸的和平统一。