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China: Peaceful Rise to Great Power Status Won’t Be Easy!
Can the West constructively encourage China’s peaceful rise?
Tobacco: The Opium War of the 21st Century?
Does the Chinese obsession with smoking have its roots in British trade policy?
A Brief History of Global Anchor Currencies
How can dominant economic powers of their time use their currencies to gain cheap financing from abroad?
China and the Global Politics of Trade, Then and Now: Part II
How were the foundations of modern trade policy created during the 1800s?
City of Heavenly Tranquility
How might Chinese history have changed if six Confucian scholars had not been executed in 1898?
China’s Ground Zero
What does the story of China’s Summer Palace reveal about the country’s attitude toward the West?