Journal of International Studies

China’s reliance on coal has serious environmental consequences, but is keeping U.S. companies in business.

The strategic triangle from the Cold War is returning. Only this time, Russia is the prize.

To combat mutual suspicion, the U.S. and China are ramping up their joint humanitarian and disaster relief exercises

The 1972 Shanghai Communique’s language on Taiwan can help solve a thorny P5+1–Iran issue.

Chinese President  Xi Jinping  (R) shakes hands with U.S. President  Barack Obama 's special representative and Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 15, 2013. (Xinhua/Ma Zhancheng) BEIJING, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- China and the  United States  should strengthen policy coordination during their respective reform and restructuring process, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Friday. Xi made the comment in a meeting with special representative of U.S. President Barack Obama, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, in Beijing. Xi stressed the just concluded Third Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee mapped out an overall plan for comprehensively deepening reforms. "China's comprehensive reform and opening-up will not only provide strong momentum to China's development, but also bring more new opportunities for China-U.S. economic cooperation and other countries in the world," Xi said. By doing ...

In an interview, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman sent a warning: We want to trade with countries in Asia, but they have to adhere to our standards. 

AS IF a global financial-market meltdown, the deepest U.S. recession in seventy years, an existential crisis in the euro zone and upheaval in the Middle East hadn’t already created enough trouble for one decade, now the unrest and anxiety have extended to some of the world’s most attractive emerging markets. Just in the past few months, we’ve seen a rough ride for India’s currency, furious nationwide protests in Turkey and Brazil, antigovernment demonstrations in Russia, strikes and violence in South Africa, and an ominous economic slowdown in all these countries. Adding to the uncertainty, as the carnage and confusion in Syria remind us, is the fact that there is no longer a single country or durable alliance of countries both willing and able to exercise consistent global leadership. The Obama administration and congressional Republicans don’t want to alienate a war-weary U.S. public by spending blood in the Middle East or treasure in Europe. Europe’s leaders have their hands ...

The reverberations of the shale energy revolution in the United States, which helped the U.S. surpass Russia to become the world’s largest natural gas producer in 2009 and may result in the U.S. displacing Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil producer around 2020, are already being felt in China. [1]  The dramatic change in the energy fortunes of the U.S. – the country is poised to shift from a net natural gas importer to a net natural gas exporter by 2020 and its dependence on oil imports is projected to fall from 60 percent in 2005 to 34 percent in 2019 – is also beginning to reshape those of China. [2] One change occurred in September, when the U.S. passed the title of world’s largest  net oil importer, a crown it had worn since the mid-1970s, to China. Five other ways in which the surge in U.S. shale gas and shale oil production is starting to alter China’s energy landscape are discussed below. 1. It has generated enormous interest in China about whether the U.S....

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The US rebalancing to the Asia-Pacific has unsettled relations with China, and distrust between the two countries has deepened since the United States started relocating its massive military assets to the region. On Tuesday, Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, commander of the US Pacific Command, said that basing a large portion of the US navy in the Pacific should not be viewed as unusual. Then on the same day, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel vowed that the US will maintain its military supremacy. However, his comment that the Pentagon is not taking the lead in this rebalancing shows that the US has finally realized that its overemphasis on the military component has been unwise. Pang Li / China Daily Robert Ross, a professor of political science at Boston College and an associate at the John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, wrote in Foreign Affairs magazine that the Barack Obama administration's rebalancing is not contributing to stabili...