Ma Shikun, Senior Journalist, the People’s Daily
Nov 18, 2015
As the President of the United States while relations between the U.S. and China normalized, former President Jimmy Carter has enjoyed popularity among Chinese. However, it is his profound understanding of Chinese systems that maintains his appeal.
Zhu Songling, Professor, Beijing Union University
Nov 17, 2015
The leaders reaffirmed the fundamentally important role of the 1992 Consensus in maintaining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait, offering a status quo of peace and development. It provides guidance to the future development of cross-Strait relations, and all parties should value that no matter who wins Taiwan’s 2016 elections.
Tom Watkins, President and CEO of the Economic Council of Palm Beach County, FL
Nov 16, 2015
The world has to respect the patience of the People's Republic of China's vision to take the long view of reuniting with Taiwan in a peaceful manner. This is not only in the best interest of the people of China and Taiwan, but all of humanity.
Huang Jiashu, Professor, Renmin University
Nov 16, 2015
The tacit accord achieved by Xi Jinping and Ma Ying-jeou reflects the leaders’ confidence and wisdom to tackle tough problems in an easy manner -- and open minds that can reach a compromise with friends. Cross-Strait relations have developed peacefully for over seven years and reached a milestone at the meeting.
Minxin Pei, Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government , Claremont McKenna College
Nov 11, 2015
Minxin Pei recognizes some brutal consequences of the one-child policy, and implores for outsiders and Chinese alike to emphasize the senseless cruelty that such measures imply and work to ensure that they are never seen again.
Zhang Zhixin, Chief of American Political Studies, CICIR
Nov 05, 2015
The U.S. vice president’s formal announcement that he will not run, and a lack of any other mainstream challenge, means the former secretary of state’s path to the presidency has suddenly been made smoother.
Chen Bin, Researcher, State Information Center
Nov 04, 2015
The expansion of the Chinese economy and the resulting improvements in the lives of Chinese people have been impressive outcomes of the just-ending Five-Year Plan, despite the recent slowdown in the economy. The blueprint for (2016-2020) is taking shape to build on that progress.
George Koo, Retired International Business Consultant and Contributor to Asia Times
Nov 04, 2015
The U.S. and U.K. are practically two nations joined at the hip due to their common root in history, language and culture. Yet the outcomes of China's president Xi Jinping's state visits to the two countries weeks apart could not be more dramatically different.The future of one bilateral relations is bright, the other is much less certain. It's time to take a deep look and understand why.
Andrew Sheng, Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Global Institute at the University of Hong Kong
Xiao Geng, Director of Institute of Policy and Practice at Shenzhen Finance Institute, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Oct 26, 2015
Beginning this week, the Party must agree on the direction of China’s 13th Five-Year Plan, which is to be launched in 2016 and is supposed to enable the country to graduate from middle-income status by 2020 by reforming the quality of market competition, government accountability, and the provision of public goods and services
George Koo, Retired International Business Consultant and Contributor to Asia Times
Oct 19, 2015
As the prospect of the opposition party DPP winning the Taiwan presidential election increases, cross-Straits relations could be in for a long winter. George Koo argues Beijing faces a Taiwan with fewer options, even Japan could join the U.S. to interfere in how Beijing and Taipei deal with each other.