Red Star Over Boeing

Will China Dominate Air and Space?

Even after six years of living in China, journalist James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic and author of China Airborne, can only guess where the country is going next. Life in China is characterized by unknowability about the future and contradictions in the present, Fallows told audiences at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica and at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, at an event co-presented by Arizona State University. But in the story of the country’s burgeoning aviation industry he found “a lens for all the things worth …

The Power Of Chinese Wings

Should Boeing Fear the PRC’s Aerospace Industry?

 

If you spend billions on developing planes, you’ll probably wind up with some planes. You might even find yourself playing a major role in aerospace. China has proven itself capable …

Is It Time We Started Looking For a Dictator?

Contemplating the Future of Democracy in an Age When Authoritarians Are Kicking Our Rears

Why can’t the United States build a rapid transit system like China’s? Is a firmer hand needed to guide the European Union through the financial crisis? Does California’s direct democracy …

Cut U.S. Senate. Insert Chinese Politburo.

What, If Anything, Can Asia’s Authoritarian Regimes Teach the Gridlocked West?

 

Distinguished commentators from The New York Times’ Thomas Friedman to the editors of The Economist warn that diverse Western democratic governments–like those in California, the U.S. and Europe–are too hamstrung …

Mad as Hell

But I Guess I Have to Take it More

Traveling through China several years ago, I had a driver whose traffic etiquette routinely left me in awe. Road shoulders were passing lanes, and so were exit ramps. Bicyclists he …

From Charlie Chan to The Joy Luck Club

 

Amy Tan’s seminal 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club was the first glimpse many Americans had into the Chinese American experience, but history professor Mae Ngai says the challenge of …