This new resource from the Commonwealth Institute's Project on Defense Alternatives (PDA) (reviewed in the January 12, 1999 Scout Report for Social Sciences) offers a gateway to "online analysis and research tools essential to understanding China's military policy, capabilities, and potential." The full-text offerings are accessed through links to a variety of English-language sources, and are...

The National Security Archive (NSA) released another electronic briefing book during June 2001. The thirteen documents available here let readers glimpse US government perceptions of political events in 1989 China. Two years ago, the NSA released Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History (see the June 11, 1999 Scout Report), and since then, they have discovered these additional documents,...

This latest Electronic Briefing Book from the National Security Archive (NSA) (last reviewed in the June 1, 1998 Scout Report for Social Sciences) highlights 35 previously classified government documents from a soon-to-be-published microfiche collection of over 15,000 pages entitled China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960-1998. The documents featured at this site all...

The question of Taiwan's status in the political economy of East Asia has been one that has bedeviled policy experts, government leaders, and others for six decades. Recently, the RAND Corporation crafted this 40-page report on behalf of the United States Air Force "to assess the nature of U.S.-China relations after the resolution of Taiwan's status." The document begins by identifying the...

This week's In the News discusses President Clinton's trip to China and the US-China Summit. The ten resources discussed offer breaking news, analysis, and commentary. President Clinton is now wrapping up his nine-day visit to China. This trip, the first by an American president since the squashing of the democracy movement in Tiananmen Square in 1989, was not expected to result in any major...

Today, Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji begins his nine-day visit to the US to assuage strained relations between the two countries caused by trade disputes, allegations of espionage, and the recent NATO intervention in Yugoslavia. The Asia Society (described in the January 2, 1998 Scout Report) has prepared a new special report that compiles background information, recent news articles, and...

Scout readers may well be tiring of this story altogether, but we thought many might be interested in coverage of the US-China standoff over the airplane collision and American crew from non-US media sources. These newspapers and radio services offer a range of views and interpretations of the events since last Sunday's accident and their impact on international diplomacy, US-China relations, and...