Willy Wo-lap Lam, former China editor of the South China Morning Post (the leading English daily in Hong Kong), will look at the possibilities for a more thorough going economic and political reform after President Jiang Zemin has retreated from the front line. Lam will examine the traits of...

On his recent trip to the United States, Chinese Premier Jiang Zemin gave no indication that he is capable of leading China through the fundamental reforms it sorely needs.

Chinese President Jiang Zemin's increasingly confrontational stance toward the West is motivated largely by his domestic political concerns.

Advocates for revaluation of China's exchange rate have argued that an appreciation would boost demand for U.S. goods and shrink the U.S. trade deficit, but Chinese currency revaluation cannot provide a quick fix to the U.S. economic predicament.

The explanation for China's international rudeness is a threefold recipe for mischief: greater military power combined with leadership weakness and a xenophobic nationalism that China's leadership created.

It is common knowledge that the AIDS virus is devastating Africa, but China, the most populous county in the world, might also have a significant problem.

Bill Clinton has cast China in a more favorable light by stressing his historic role in moving the "world's most important relationship" forward into thetwenty-first century.

When trouble begins in China, we should remember that the course was set in 1998, by the Communist leadership itself.