Thinking from the Heart!

AN American investment banker and a longtime China observer, Dr. Robert Lawrence Kuhn became a household name in China as the author of The Man Who Changed China： The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin, a best-seller in 2005 demonstrating the life of China＇s former president. The success of this book facilitated his subsequent work in this country. His experiences, accumulated over four years of crisscrossing the nation and dozens of interviews with officials at all levels, have been published in his new book： How China＇s Leaders Think.＂ The Inside Story of China＇s Reform and What This Means for the Future.     

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Zhao Guozhu's Fountain Pen Calligraphy Copybook of Famous Couplets has recently been published. The Chairman of China Calligraphers' Association lettered the title and Pang Zhonghua, Chairman of China Hard-tipped Pen Calligraphers' Association wrote a preface for the book. The cover of this copybook, made with dark-blue embossed kraft paper, was overprinted in four colors, and bound in traditional thread sewing. All these qualities render the whole book a classic beauty.Leafing through the book,I     

"CHINA IS MY HOME"

AMemoir of More Than 80 Years in China by Israel Epstein was translated into Chinese and published by the New World Press in April this year to celebrate the author's 89th birthday. The 415-page book tells about his love for China, his profound friendly sentiments towards the Chinese people, his great expectation for the construction of new China and his confidence in the bright prospects for its future.     

From Codependency To Interdependency

<正>Stephen Roach, senior fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, and former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the firm’s chief economist, has been engaging in China-U.S. relationship observations for over 25 years. His new book Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives, published last November, takes this increasingly contentious debate to a new level.     

CSHRS Issues China Human Rights Development Report 2014

<正>The China Society for Human Rights Studies(CSHRS)issued on August 6 the China Human Rights Development Report 2014(human rights blue book),which is the fourth of its kind in China.The blue book analyzes the connotation of the Chinese Dream and explained the significance of the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.The blue book summarizes the general characteristics of China’s human     

Say No to Trade Wars

<正>Trump needs to see that automation,not China,is the main reason for the loss of U.S.jobs A decade ago,Sara Bongiorni published a book titled A Year Without"Made in China":One Family's True Life Adventure in the Global Economy.It chronicled her American family's experiment with a yearlong"boycott"of Chinese products.The book describes their daily inconveniences and problems—she could not even fi nd a non-Chinesemade candle for her husband's birthday.     

Fewer Rows, More Reason

The year 2010 concludes with several fresh entries in China＇s book of honor： the Shanghai World Expo set a record of 70 million visitors; China overtook Japan as runner up for the world＇s largest GDP, second only to the U.S.; and the World Bank escalated China＇s voting clout to 4.42 percent, the third largest in the organization. Amid the cheers and plaudits for these achievements are complaints and grumblings that can＇t be overlooked.     

IPR Awareness Crucial

Back in April, the United States lodged two complaints with the World Trade Organization against China, one of the charges being that the Chinese leadership had failed to con-tain the spread of rampant piracy and infringements on copy-right and intellectual property rights (IPR). This is one of a series of American criticisms against China in this regard over recent years. While this issue has often been cited as a direct cause for bilateral trade frictions and proof of U.S. companies' loss of com-mercial interests in China, it is also seen by some observers as an American way of mounting greater pressures on China to further open its local market for U.S. IPR products.     

Address by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Ms. Louise Arbour at the Opening Ceremony of the 13th Annual Workshop of the Framework on Regional Cooperation for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region

State Councilor Tang, Excellencies, Ministers, Distinguished Representatives and Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my great pleasure to open this Annual Workshop on Regional Cooperation for the Pro- motion and Protection of Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region. I would like to thank warmly the Government of the People's Republic of China for hosting this Workshop and for the generous hospitality extend- ed to all of us here today. While this is your thirteenth workshop, it i…     

China Dreams： 20 Visions of the Future

China Dreams： 20 Visions of the Future is the first book published overseas to expound on the ＂China Dream＂ concept Brought out by the U.S. branch of Oxford University Press in April 2013, its author, William A. Callahan, is a professor of international politics at the U.K University of Manchester. His book raises some interesting viewpoints.     

Getting the Balance Right

Frequent inter-governmental dialogues and brisk trade between China and Grermany provide a recipe for success Last year's trade volumes between China and the European Union had, for the first time, surpassed the benchmark of $200 billion, eight years ahead of the schedule envisioned by leaders back in 2003. This is according to the latest statistics released by China's Ministry of Commerce. Within the circle of this trade achievement,     

Setting the Stakes

The term "stakeholder," first used by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick in a speech on U.S.-China relations last September, has since been frequently quoted and discussed as a buzzword in bilateral relations. According to Wang Jianwei, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and a senior associate at the Shanghai Institute for American Studies, "stakeholder" was "mainly put forward as a demand upon China by the United States," which implies that China is not yet a 'responsible stakeholder." If this is the case, "it will not serve as a solid basis for a stable relationship," Wang writes. His main ideas follow:     

China Can Maintain Its Economic Growth

正EARLIER this year sections of the Western media tried to spin a story that the world economy was experiencing"severe slowdown in China"and"strong recovery in the U.S."In other words,China’s economy was allegedly in trouble and the U.S.was doing well.Now that the factual data is in for the fi rst half of the year it shows the opposite was true.China’s economic growth was 7.5 percent to the second quarter of 2014;that of the U.S.was 2.4 percent.China’s economy thus grew more than three times as fast as the U.S.’s.Still more signifi cantly for the U.S.,its own statistical agencies and the IMF have offi cially revised their projections for long-term U.S.growth.Both now estimate it at     

Going Up Global Ladder

China rises on the 2019 Fortune Global 500 list with a record 129 companies China has surpassed the United States on this year's Fortune Global 500 list, accounting for the highest number of ompanies in the ranking for the first time.The Fortune Global 500 is an annual ranking of the top 500 corporations worldwide measured by revenue by U.S. business magazine Fortune. The list this year has 129 Chinese companies, compared to 121 from the U.S. Six of the top 10 firms with the fastest ranking growth are also from China, Fortune said on July 22. Also, 77 Chinese companies have improved their ranking from the previous year.     

CPC’s Secret to Success

Why does the Communist Party of China (CPC) remain popular despite making several serious mistakes? How could the CPC make China the world’s second-largest economy? These are among the 13 questions answered by Xie Chuntao, a professor with the Party School of the Central Committee of the CPC, in his latest national bestseller-Why and How the CPC Works in China. The English edition of the book, published in July by the Beijingbased New World Press, won a larger international audience at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October-not only because it addresses Western curiosity about the "China model" and "China’s road," but also because it puts forward a new way of introducing China and the CPC to the world. For this and the next three issues, Beijing Review will publish several chapters of the book, allowing readers a glimpse into the book. Edited chapter one-Why Was the CPC Capable of Establishing a New China-is as follows:     

Political Reform at Watershed

How to promote the reform of political institutions is one of the thorny issues facing China.The recent publication of the first book systematically illustrating the overall plan of the reform of China's political institutions,Storming the Fortress:A Research Report on the Reform of China's Political Institutions After the 17th Party Congress (abbreviated as Storming the Fortress) has attracted a lot of public attention.Besides the sensitive topic,the identities of the authors also con- tribute to the book's bestselling.Most authors of the book are from the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC),an important think tank of the CPC.Because of this many people believe that the book represents the official standpoint.Beijing Review reporter Feng Jianhua conducted an interview with Professor Zhou Tianyong,Chief Compiler of the book and Deputy Director of the Research Office of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee.     

China’s First Blue Book on Human Rights Development

The China Society for the Studies of human Rights and the Social Sciences Documentation Press held a joint press conference on September 8, 2011, officially launching the publication of China’s first blue book, the China human Rights Development Report no. 1 (2011). Present at the briefing were Luo haocai, president of the China Society for human Rights Studies, vice-chairman of the national Committee of the 10th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and former chairman of the China Zhi Gong Dang and head of the editorial committee of the     

Commitment Is the Key

China's development miracle decoded It's hard to disassociate President Xi Jinping and his philosophy on governance from China's rapid development.After reading Xi Jinping:The Governance of China,I have up-to-date understanding of China's development in the new era,the development philosophy of the Communist Party of China(CPC),and the development blueprint for this big country with a population of 1.4 billion people.In recent years.