At the November CHINA Roundtable, Tony Saich of the Harvard Kennedy School gave his take on China’s new leadership. Here’s the first part, ‘China’s New Leaders,:

If you are in NY on May 21, you might want to attend ‘U.S.-China Economic Relations in the Next Decade,’ 9:30am-11:30am. An outstanding cast of speakers (below). Here’s part of the blurb:  This discussion will draw upon the findings and recommendations …

Fareed Zakaria sums up very well the challenges facing China’s new leadership–and in under four minutes, Not a word wasted:

I just found this March 2010 Christine Amanpour interview with Ai Weiwei, ‘The Power of Art and the Internet for Chinese Dissident.’ Excellent. And, here’s the transcript.

You have to love the diehards. As in ‘Paradise Lost: In North Korea, Chinese Maoists Find The Land Of Their Dreams.’  A grand and illuminating story from The Economist. ‘For most members of the group of 15 tourists (except one who was there …

Now for something entirely different: “In the pursuit of truth, I would die nine times without regret. If I’m going to die, I want to die with honesty and integrity,” he said as he was wrapping up, a paraphrase of …

Anything that Yasheng Huang has to say about China is worth paying attention. In ‘The Key to Bringing Democracy to China,’ he makes and backs up a as sweeping argument that might be summarized as: For China to open up politically, …

Hey, Evan Osnos! Who says China doesn’t have Gangnam Style? As soon as I saw this, my optimism about China’s next 10 years just shot up. Then, as you have no doubt guessed, this is Photoshoped. And, it was taken …

As regular readers know, I turn to Cheng Li of Brookings first on issues about Chinese leaders. Here’s his take on the China’s new leadership on CNBC:

Charlie Rose’s ‘Leadership in China’ segment on November 16 aired right after the new China leadership was announced. And, it has three of my favorite China commentators, Ian Bremmer, president and founder of The Eurasia Group; Richard McGregor of the Financial Times …