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China and the Global Financial Crisis: Implications for the United States

This report discusses the economy of China and how it is has been affected by the recent economic downturn. China has recently enjoyed one of the world's fastest-growing economies and has been a major contributor to world economic growth, but several Chinese industries have been hard by the crisis, and millions of workers have been laid off. This report explores this issue in brief, including what actions the Chinese government is taking to combat the problem, as well as what actions China may … more

Date: June 3, 2009

Creator: Morrison, Wayne M.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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China-U.S. Trade Issues

U.S.-China economic ties have expanded substantially over the past three decades. With a huge population and a rapidly expanding economy, China is a potentially huge market for U.S. exporters. However, bilateral economic relations have become strained over a number of issues, which this report discusses at length. The current global economic crisis could further challenge China-U.S. economic ties. Several Members of Congress have urged the Obama Administration to take a more assertive approach … more

Date: June 23, 2009

Creator: Morrison, Wayne M.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Human Rights in China: Trends and Policy Implications

Human rights has long been a principal area of U.S. concern in its relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC). Policy makers are at odds regarding whether or not the U.S. policy of engagement with China has produced meaningful political reform. This report analyzes China's mixed record on human rights - major human rights problems, new human rights legislation, and the development of civil society, legal awareness, and social and political activism. This report discusses major areas of… more

Date: July 13, 2009

Creator: Lum, Thomas & Fischer, Hannah

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Human Rights in China: Trends and Policy Implications

This report analyzes China's mixed record on human rights -- major human rights problems, new human rights legislation, and the development of civil society, legal awareness, and social and political activism. This report discusses major areas of interest but does not provide an exhaustive account of all human rights abuses or related incidents.

Date: June 12, 2009

Creator: Lum, Thomas & Fischer, Hannah

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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China's Currency: An Analysis of the Economic Issues

This report provides an overview of the economic issues surrounding the current debate over China's currency policy. It identifies the economic costs and benefits of China's currency policy for both China and the United States, and possible implications if China were to allow its currency to significantly appreciate or to float freely. It also examines proposed legislation in the 111th Congress that seek to address China's currency policy.

Date: October 1, 2010

Creator: Morrison, Wayne M. & Labonte, Marc

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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U.S. Assistance Programs in China

This report examines U.S. foreign assistance activities in the People's Republic of China (PRC), including U.S. Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) programming, foreign operations appropriations, policy history, and legislative background. International programs supported by U.S. departments and agencies other than the Department of State and USAID are not covered in this report.

Date: April 22, 2011

Creator: Lum, Thomas

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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China: Pending Legislation in the 105th Congress

The 105 Congress has been active on issues involving China. This report, which will be updated as developments occur, tracks pending human rights legislation, including bills concerning: prison conditions and prison labor exports; coercive abortion practices; China’s policies toward religion; and more general human rights issues.

Date: June 19, 1998

Creator: Dumbaugh, Kerry

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues

This CRS Report, updated as warranted, discusses the security problem of China's role in weapons proliferation and issues related to the U.S. policy response since the mid- 1990s. China has taken some steps to mollify U.S. and other foreign concerns about its role in weapons proliferation. Nonetheless, supplies from China have aggravated trends that result in ambiguous technical aid, more indigenous capabilities, longer-range missiles, and secondary (retransferred) proliferation. According to u… more

Date: May 26, 2011

Creator: Kan, Shirley A.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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U.S. Assistance Programs in China

Date: August 9, 2011

Creator: Lum, Thomas

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues

Congress has long been concerned about whether U.S. policy advances the national interest in reducing the role of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and missiles that could deliver them. China has taken some steps to mollify U.S. concerns about its role in weapons proliferation. Skeptics question whether China's cooperation in weapons nonproliferation has warranted President Bush's pursuit of stronger bilateral ties. This report discus… more

Date: March 30, 2012

Creator: Kan, Shirley A.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Understanding China's Political System

This report is designed to provide Congress with a perspective on the contemporary political system of China, the only Communist Party-led authoritarian state in the G-20 grouping of major economies. China's Communist Party dominates state and society in China, is committed to maintaining a permanent monopoly on power, and is intolerant of those who question its right to rule. The report opens with a brief overview of China's leading political institutions, followed by an introduction to distin… more

Date: May 10, 2012

Creator: Lawrence, Susan V. & Martin, Michael F.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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China's Vice President Xi Jinping Visits the United States: What Is at Stake?

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (pronounced Shee Jin-ping) is scheduled to visit the United States in mid-February, 2012, returning Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.'s August 2011 visit to China, which Xi hosted. The fact that Xi is the heir apparent to China's current top leader, Hu Jintao, who is scheduled to retire in the coming year, makes this more than an ordinary vice presidential visit. Xi's trip is designed to help him build relationships with American policymakers and legislators … more

Date: February 6, 2012

Creator: Lawrence, Susan V.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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U.S.-China Diplomacy Over Chinese Legal Advocate Chen Guangcheng

The case of blind Chinese legal advocate Chen Guangcheng, who escaped from illegal house arrest in China's Shandong Province on April 20, 2012, and made his way to Beijing, the United States Embassy, and, ultimately, the United States, has generated strong congressional interest. This report begins by examining implications of the Chen case for the place of human rights in U.S.-China relations. It then discusses why Beijing may have been willing to negotiate with the United States at all over t… more

Date: May 29, 2012

Creator: Lawrence, Susan V. & Lum, Thomas

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Global Climate Change: Coal Use in China and Other Asian Developing Countries

Report discussing factors behind China's planned reliance on coal for future energy growth, including background information, factors in Asian coal use trends, Asian and world energy demands, the Asian coal and world markets, CO2 emissions trends, projected energy supply and emissions from other sources, and general conclusions regarding the issues.

Date: June 16, 1999

Creator: Humphries, Marc

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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China: Current U.S. Sanctions

In the months following China,s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, both the President and the Congress took a number of initiatives protesting Beijing's actions. These initiatives centered around U.S. concerns related to trade, human rights, and non-proliferation. In intervening years, the United States has periodically imposed, lifted, or waived other sanctions and concluded several trade- related agreements with China relating to these concerns. Those measures that remain in place in 1994 are… more

Date: February 8, 1994

Creator: Dumbaugh, Kerry

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Current U.S. Sanctions Against China

In the months following China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, both the President and the Congress took a number of initiatives protesting Beijing's actions. These initiatives centered around U.S. concerns related to trade, human rights, and non-proliferation. In intervening years, the United States has periodically imposed, lifted, or waived other sanctions and concluded several trade-related agreements with China relating to these concerns. Those measures that remain in place in 1994 are de… more

Date: August 15, 1994

Creator: Dumbaugh, Kerry

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Southeast Asian Security: Issues for the U.S.

Policymakers on both sides of the Pacific turned their attention to Southeast Asian security issues in late July 1995. The occasion was the Annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)[1] ministers' meeting; followed by the annual post-ministerial "dialogue" among the ASEAN and other Asian- Pacific ministers (including the U.S. Secretary of State); followed in turn by the second annual ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), a nascent security framework for the area including participation by the… more

Date: August 24, 1995

Creator: Sutter, Robert G.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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China Policy: Crisis Over Taiwan, 1995 -- A Post-Mortem

The October 24, 1995 meeting between President Bill Clinton and China's President Jiang Zemin helped to ease the crisis in U.S.-PRC-Taiwan relations that ensued from Beijing's harsh response to Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui's June 1995 visit to Cornell University.

Date: December 5, 1995

Creator: Sutter, Robert G.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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China Policy: Managing U.S.-PRC-Taiwan Relations After President Lee's Visit to the U.S.

fallout of Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui's June 1995 visit to the United States has included a carefully calibrated PRC effort to cut off or suspend contacts and communications with the United States and Taiwan over a range of important policy questions. Prospects for a resumption of these contacts are unclear, especially since domestic politics in Beijing,

Date: June 19, 1995

Creator: Sutter, Robert G.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Hong Kong's Transition to Chinese Rule: Issues, U.S. Interests, U.S. Options

Participants at a CRS seminar on Hong Kong's transition to Chinese rule generally agreed that there are now-- and are likely to be more--difficulties for U.S. interests as a result of PRC pressures on Hong Kong's political autonomy, rule of law and individual rights. PRC pressures and resistance in Hong Kong could also have negative effects on U.S. interests in Hong Kong's economic progress, although Hong Kong seems poised to continue to advance economically along with the rest of coastal China. more

Date: June 20, 1995

Creator: Sutter, Robert G. & Khan, Shahid

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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China in Transition: Changing Conditions and Implications for U.S. Interests

Americans disagree as to whether or not China poses a serious security concern for U.S. interests in peace and security in Asia and the Pacific. Many point to rising Chinese defense capabilities and assertive rhetoric to warn of Chinese military- backed expansion. Others judge that the main danger comes from China's weakness. They argue that the possibility of an emerging breakdown in government authority in China could prompt regional disorder and refugee flows seriously undermining Asian stab… more

Date: January 5, 1994

Creator: Sutter, Robert G. & Kan, Shirley A.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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China, Congress, and Sanctions - Findings of a Workshop-Seminar

The People's Republic of China (PRC)'s provocative use of military force in the Taiwan Strait has appeared to subside, but not before convincing many in the Congress that the PRC regime continues to flout international norms sensitive to the United States. In addition to challenging stability in the Taiwan Strait, the PRC is seen recently to undermine important U.S. interests regarding nuclear proliferation, intellectual property rights, and missile proliferation. As a result, many in the Congr… more

Date: April 17, 1996

Creator: Sutter, Robert G. & Rennack, Dianne E.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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China's Rising Power: Alternative U.S. National Security Strategies - Findings of a Seminar

Although recent development of China's wealth and power poses opportunities as well as challenges for U.S. policy, participants at a CRS seminar on dealing with China's rise focused on the challenges. China is seen as a very large, strategically located country undergoing rapid economic growth and social change, and ruled by authoritarian political leaders. Since the Maoist era, China has made great strides in conforming to many international norms, but a combination of rising Chinese power and… more

Date: June 6, 1996

Creator: Sutter, Robert G. & Mitchener, Peter

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Tibet, China, and the 107th Congress: Issues for U.S. Policy

This report briefly reviews Tibet's historical status and discusses current issues (from Summary). It focuses on Tibet and U.S. policy, the impact of Chinese control over Tibetan culture and traditions, Tibet's economic development, the Dalai Lama's role in Tibetan government, and recurring U.S. congressional action in support of Tibet.

Date: May 30, 2001

Creator: Dumbaugh, Kerry

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department