Based on the variable rate of gross domestic product per capita growth and its sources, this paper first identifies five phases of economic development that are common to China, Japan, and Korea. But there are also marked differences in the onset, duration, and institutional forms of these phases across these economies. In order to understand...

This paper recommends specific actions that need to be taken internationally as well as domestically in order to effectively control the embedded CO2 emissions in China’s trade. China’s capital-intensive, export-oriented, spectacular economic growth since launching its open-door policy and economic reforms in late 1978 not only has created jobs and has lifted millions of the...

Australia should look towards more than fuel, resources and agriculture in its economic relationship with China, writes Jieh-Yung Lo.

Accommodating China's rise in a way that ensures the future stability and prosperity of the world economy and polity is probably the most important task facing the world community in the first half of the 21st century. Where the last three decades of the 20th century witnessed a China rising on to the global economic...

Traditionally Australia's political allegiances have been with the United States. More recently our economic fortunes have been tied to China, which is asserting itself as a global power and in the process perhaps challenging American hegemony. So do we have to choose where our primary allegiance lies? Guests Hugh WhiteProfessor of Strategic Studies at the...