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The author analyzes the post-2003 transformation of China from a revolutionary Communist regime into one of "normal governance" (a term Premier Wen Jiabao coined in 2003), placing the change in a comparative framework pioneered by Crane Brinton in his monumental study of the four classic revolutions (French, English, American, and Bolshevik). Crane Brinton found a universal pattern that he called the Thermidorean reaction, a surprisingly early return to normalcy. In borrowed medical language, he likened it to convalescence following the fever of the crisis stage of revolution. However, it is difficult to identify this stage in the Chinese Revolution. The author traces the long, convoluted course of the Chinese Revolution through four generations of leadership, from Mao Zedong to Deng Xiaoping to Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao, to identify the start of the Thermidorean reaction in China. (Asian Aff/GIGA)

The author points out that although the triadic relationship entangling the USA, mainland China and Taiwan can be approached from any of the three perspectives, in this article he looks at it mainly from the U.S. point of view. He looks at the U.S. pro-Taiwan tilt, reversal of this tilt: a pro-Beijing tilt without abandoning Taiwan, U.S. policy review after the 1996 neodisaster, implications of the new U.S. policy, implications for mainland China, implications for Taiwan and other topics. (DÜI-Sen)

The article discusses the capacity of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) to assert claims or espouse causes, both in its own right and on behalf of its residents, the extent of the HKSAR's autonomy to take international action vis-a-vis its Chinese sovereign and Hong Kong's role as a "reversible window", that is, as China's window on the world, and conversely, the world's window on China and the potential for Hong Kong to be a catalyst in bringing together Taiwan, the mainland, Macau, and itself into a "Greater China". (DÜI-Sen)