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FOREIGN AFFAIRS: January/February 2008
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CHANGING CHINA

China is changing rapidly, and its rise has led to widespread fears in western capitals. But Beijing's rapid economic growth and increasing political clout will not spell the demise of the liberal international order, argues G. John Ikenberry, so long as the West plays its cards correctly. As part of a special package on China, John Thornton assesses the prospects for Chinese democracy nearly two decades after the Tiananmen Square protests; Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt and Andrew Small reexamine Beijing's policy of nonintervention and its relations with pariah states; and David Hale and Lyric Hughes Hale warn that forced currency revaluation is not the solution to the large U.S.-Chinese trade imbalance.

Democracy in China
John L. Thornton
China's politics are evolving -- but very slowly and in their own distinct
way.
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Can the West Handle Chinese Power?
G. John Ikenberry
Washington can manage China's rise -- with the help of a strong liberal
international order.
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Beijing's Friendly Tyrant Problem
Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt and Andrew Small
Chinese support for pariah regimes in Burma, Sudan, and North Korea is
dropping —- slightly.
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Reconsidering Revaluation
David D. Hale and Lyric Hughes Hale
Pressuring China to strengthen its currency is a bad solution to the
wrong problem.
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