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.

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.

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

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.

China will consistently welcome and support overseas NGOs to operate in China in accordance with law. The new administrative law will strive to provide a fine legal environment as well as more convenience for overseas NGOs to conduct friendly exchanges and cooperation in our country.

The political outsider could be the Republican presidential nominee if the recent trend endures. But even if Trump’s surge ends, the social discontent it reflects need to be addressed by the incoming U.S. president.

High-profile arrests like those carried out in China in recent years are insufficient to curb corruption in a lasting manner. Reducing pervasive government intervention in the economy and encouraging greater competition would reduce the near-monopolistic rents that create the incentives for corruption in the first place.

China-U.S. relations are at an important stage of mutual adjustment. We should ease this process by building up mutual understanding and people-to-people exchanges.

Information technologies have long been viewed by Beijing as architecture of social management. The new WeChat platform allows for more personalized interaction and negotiation between the public and government, with little political consequence.

The importance of “boundaries” and the necessity of drawing firm lines between people are intrinsically American attitudes regarding how individuals should interact and be treated – attitudes that Roma Eisenstark sees thrown into great relief when living in China and navigating a more frank and physically demonstrative culture.