In future years, people may point to the North Korean nuclear crisis as a turning point that brought China on the same side as the US and Japan instead of creating two hostile blocs in Asia.

BY Susan L. Shirk 26 October 2006

If China's new leaders succeed in controlling the epidemic, the political aftermath is likely to be a more effective and responsive regime, although not yet a democratic one.

BY Susan L. Shirk 15 May 2003