June 2008

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1. Goldstein, Morris and Nicholas R. Lardy, eds. 
   Debating China's Exchange Rate Policy.
   Peterson Institute for International Economics, April 2008, 5 pages. (pamphlet)
   "More than two and a half years have passed since China announced a number of changes to its foreign exchange regime on July 21, 2005. During this period, the debate on the pros and cons of China's exchange rate policy, which had begun in earnest several years earlier, intensified." (From the Peterson Institute for International Economics)
   
   
2. Office of the United States Trade Representative.
   2008 Special 301 Report: Executive Summary.
   The United States Trade Representative, May 2008, 45 pages. (pamphlet)
   "The 'Special 301' Report is an annual review of the global state of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection and enforcement, conducted by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) pursuant to Special 301 provisions of the Trade Act of 1974 (Trade Act).  The 2008 Special 301 review process examined IPR protection and enforcement in 78 countries.  Following extensive research and analysis, USTR designates 46 countries in this year's Special 301 Report in the categories of Priority Watch List, Watch List, and/or Section 306 Monitoring status. This report reflects the Administration’s resolve to encourage and maintain effective IPR protection and enforcement worldwide." (From USTR)
   
   
3. Tamirisa, Natalia.
   "Climate Change and the Economy." 
   Finance & Development, March 2008, pp. 18-22. (article)
   "Policies to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases need not hobble the economy." (From Finance & Development)

4. Bush, Richard C., III.
   Implications of the 2008 Taiwan Presidential Election for Cross-Strait Relations.
   Brookings Institution, May 13, 2008, 3 pages. (pamphlet)
   "The people of Taiwan elected a new president who favors closer ties with Beijing. Leading experts from Taiwan, the United States and China including representatives from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and Kuomintang (KMT) took part in a seminar examining the results of the elections, what they say about Taiwan’s current politics and its continued political and democratic development and the implications of the election and referendums for relations among Taiwan, the United States and China." (From Brookings)
   
   

5. Dumbaugh, Kerry.
   "Overview and U.S. Policy Challenges."
   From China's Foreign Policy and "Soft Power" in South America, Asia and Africa.
   Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, April 2008, pp 1-15. (article)
    
   "This memorandum opens with an overview section discussing China's presumed foreign policy goals, the attractions and limitations of China's "soft power," and the implications and options for the United States. The memorandum proceeds to an analysis of China's relations with countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Southwest Pacific, Japan and South Korea, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa." (From CRS)
   
   

6. Freeman, Chas W., Jr.
   Why Not Try Diplomacy?
   American Diplomacy, May 6, 2008, 8 pages.  (article)
   "In this speech to the University Continuing Education Association in New Orleans on March 28, 2008, a distinguished retired career diplomat decries today's unprecedented military spending and over-reliance on force in American foreign policy, and calls for increased resort to diplomacy to face the daunting challenges that lie ahead. " (From American Diplomacy)
   
   

7. Glaser, Bonnie S.
   If Not Now, When? Will China Seize the Opportunity to Improve Cross-Strait Relations?
   Pacific Forum CSIS, April 28, 2008, 2 pages.  (pamphlet)
   "The March 22 Taiwan election presents an historic opportunity to transform the U.S.-China-Taiwan triangular relationship and create win-win-win dynamics, but realizing this opportunity will require wise and far-sighted leadership on all three sides." (From CSIS)
   
   

8. Mahbubani, Kishore.
   "America's Place in the Asian Century." 
   Current History, May 2008, pp. 195-200. (article)
   "The next U.S. president will need to discard old mental maps of the world.  The West's domination of history is over." (From Current History)
   
   

9. Michel, Serge.
   "When China Met Africa."
   Foreign Policy, May/June 2008, pp. 38-46.  (article)
   "It seemed a perfect match: A growing country looking for markets and influence meets a continent with plenty of resources but few investors.  Now that China has moved in, though, its African partners are beginning to resent their aggressive new patron." (From Foreign Policy)
   
   

10. Negroponte, John D.
    U.S.-China Relations in the Era of Globalization.
    U.S. Department of State, May 15, 2008, 2 pages.  (pamphlet)
    "The United States can help here, by being sensitive to legitimate Chinese concerns, by consulting frequently with Chinese leaders, and by integrating China into regional and global institutions in a manner befitting a rising power." (From the State Department)
    
    

11. "Southeast Asian Reactions to China's Peaceful Development Doctrine: Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand."
    From Assessing Regional Reactions to China's Peaceful Development Doctrine.
    "This issue of the NBR Analysis reveals unique insights by expert scholars into how India, South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines perceive the potential risks and gains of China's ambitious strategy.The assessment of such perspectives provides a valuable opportunity to gauge policy implications in a wide variety of areas, including politics, security, finance, and trade.Such analysis is key both to mitigating the risks of conflict in Asia and to ensuring that China's rapid development is indeed associated with a peaceful regional environment." (From the National Bureau of Asian Research)
    

12. Zakaria, Fareed.
    The Future of American Power.
    Foreign Affairs, May/June 2008, pp. 18-43.  (article)
    "Despite some eerie parallels between the position of the United States today and that of the British Empire a century ago, there are key differences.  Britain's decline was driven by bad economics.  The United States, in contrast, has the strength and dynamism to continue shaping the world -- but only if it can overcome its political dysfunction and reorient U.S. policy for a world defined by the rise of other powers." (From Foreign Affairs)

13. Brownstein, Ronald.
    "The First 21-Century Campaign."
    National Journal, April 19, 2008, 7 pages.  (article)
    "Since the first televised debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960, and the rise of the 30-second TV commercial later in that decade, the ability to communicate effectively on television has arguably been the key to winning the White House; a close second has been the ability to tap big donors for the money to air plenty of TV ads." (From ProQuest)
    
    
14. Clinton, Hillary.
    "Halting the Housing Crisis."
    Vital Speeches of the Day, May 2008, pp. 199-203. (article)
    "Now, turing the economy around won't be easy, but we are gathered in the very city where our founders put to paper the words that have guided our nation - and inspired the world - for more than two-hundred years. Each generation of Americans has faced threats to our ideals. Each generation has met them." (From Vital Speeches of the Day)
    
    
15. Lindsey, Brink.
    "Culture of Success: Inside an Inequality Riddle."
    New Republic, March 12, 2008, pp. 30-31. (article)
    "The main reason high percentages of African-Americans and Hispanics don't go to college is not because they can't afford it or can't do the work, but because the cultural backgrounds from which they come discourage it, says Lindsey, vice president for research at the Cato Institute." (From Article Alert)
    
    
16. McCain, John.
    Remarks By John McCain on Nuclear Security.
    John McCain 2008, May 27, 2008, 4 pages. (pamphlet)
    "I believe we should also begin a dialogue with China on strategic and nuclear issues. We have important shared interests with China and should begin discussing ways to achieve the greatest possible transparency and cooperation on nuclear force structure and doctrine. We should work with China to encourage conformity with the practices of the other four nuclear weapon states recognized in the Non-Proliferation Treaty, including working toward nuclear arsenal reductions and toward a moratorium on the production of additional fissile material." (From John McCain 2008)
    
    
17. Obama, Barack.
    "A More Perfect Union."
    Vital Speeches of the Day, May 2008, pp. 194-199. (article)
    "This was one of the tasks we set forth at the beginning of this campaign -- to continue the long march of those who came before us, a march for a more just, more equal, more free, more caring and more prosperous America." (From Vital Speeches of the Day)
    
    
18. Seely, Bruce.
    "The Secret Is the System."
    Wilson Quarterly, Spring 2008, pp. 47-58.  (article)
    "The United States has settled for a patchwork approach to infrastructure.  To stay ahead in the global economy, it needs to build adaptable networks like the 1956 Interstate Highway System." (From Wilson Quarterly)

 

19. Harahan, Charles E.
    Rising Food Prices and Global Food Needs: The U.S. Response.
    Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, May 8, 2008, 19 pages.  (pamphlet)
    "Rising food prices are having impacts across the world, but especially among poor people in low-income developing countries. Since 2000, a year of low food prices, wheat prices in international markets have more than tripled, corn prices have doubled, and rice prices rose to unprecedented levels in March 2008. Such increases in food prices have raised concerns about the ability of poor people to meet their food and nutrition needs and in a number of countries have lead to civil unrest." (From CRS Report)
    
    

20. Subramanian, Arvind.
    US Leadership in the Global Food Crisis.
    Peterson Institute for International Economics, May 14, 2008, 6 pages.  (pamphlet)
    "Statement before the US House of Representatives, Committee on Financial Services, hearing on Contributing Factors and International Responses to the Global Food Crisis." (From the Peterson Institute for International Economics)

「美國在台協會處長楊甦棣台北市美國商會2008年謝年飯演講詞。」 "Remarks by AIT Director Stephen M. Young to the 2008 Hsieh Nien Fan of the American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei." OT-0805, April 29, 2008, "What will the future hold? How will Taiwan deal with the challenges it faces, particularly the pressures of dynamic global economic change? What role will Taiwan's supporters have in helping the people of this island achieve their aspirations for the future? These are questions I would like to consider tonight." (From AIT) 「美國在台協會台北辦事處處長楊甦棣記者會。」 "Press Conference, Stephen M Young, Director, American Insitute in Taiwan." OT-0806, May 08, 2008, "The last several months have been a bonanza for election junkies here in Taiwan. I have enjoyed your coverage, but as a close student of democracy, I want to make a few observations about this process." (From AIT) 「美國在台協會處長楊甦棣致詞。」 ﹝台中美國資料中心成立三周年暨美國在台協會台中線上分處啟用﹞ "Remarks by AIT Director Stephen M. Young at the Third Anniversary of the Taichung American Corner and the Launch of Virtual Branch Office Taichung." OT-0807, May 15, 2008, "We are not going to rest on our laurels, however. Today, I am pleased to announce that AIT is expanding its presence in central Taiwan by opening a 'Virtual Branch Office' for Taichung." (From AIT)

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