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Kerry Brown writes extensively about the politics, history, and economies of modern China, and Asia. This is a list of the most recent articles, which can be downloaded, or accessed via these links:

• On Chinese President Xi Jinping and the fight against corruption, from the South Morning Post, March 2012, http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1190784/can-xi-jinping-succeed-where-mao-failed 
   
• `Xi Jinping Must Smash Vested Interest in China', The Australian, March 2013, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/world-commentary/xi-must-smash-vested-interest-of-chinas-elite/story-e6frg6ux-1226591902775
   
• `The Real Numbers behind the National People's Congress in China thi year,' Nottingham University Blog, March 2013, http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/chinapolicyinstitute/2013/03/08/the-real-numbers-behind-the-npc/
   
• `What We Have Learned about Mr Xi Jinping,' Foreign Policy, March 2013, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/03/05/what_have_we_learned_about_xi_jinping
   
• An assessment of the Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao period in power, BBC Website, March 14th 2013, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-21669780
   
• On the imminent National People's Congress in March 2013, Beijing Review,
  http://www.bjreview.com.cn/print/txt/2013-02/22/content_519459.htm
   
• `China's Elite Leadership' in Foreign Policy, October 2010
   
• Reviews in The Times Higher Educational Supplement at http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=411291
   
• `China: Between Global Responsibilities and Internal Transitions', in `America in a Changes World: A Question of Leadership', edited by Robin Niblett, Chatham House, April 2010
   
• 'An Unexpected Outcome', Beijing Review, May 2010
   
• `North Korea: The Plot Thickens', The World Today, June 2010
   
• `Electoral Choice' in Beijing Review, April 2010
   
  
• `The Future of Village Elections in China' in the International Institute for Asian Studies, Newsletter 53, Spring 2010
   
  
• Lisbon at Last' from the January 2010 edition of the Caixin Yearbook, at http://english.caing.com/upload/LISBON%20AT%20LAST.pdf
   
  
• China and Iran' in `The World Today', March 2010, with podcast: http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/media/comment/china_iran0210/
   
• Review of Marie Claire Bergere's `Shanghai, China's Gateway to Modernity', 2nd February 2010, at http://www.asianreviewofbooks.com/arb/article.php?article=1061
   
• Review of Bruce Cummings' `Dominion from Sea to Sea', Asian Review of Books, 19th January 2010, at http://www.asianreviewofbooks.com/arb/article.php?article=1055
   
• Minutes of evidence given to the House of Lord's Committee, June 2009, for their report on the relationship between China and the EU
   
• On the Liu Xiaobo case, in Open Democracy, 11th January 2010, at http://www.opendemocracy.org/kerry-brown/china-and-liu-xiaobo-weakness-of-strength
   
• `China and the EU: Uneasy Bedfellows', in `The Diplomat Magazine', 12th January 2010, at http://www.the-diplomat.com/001f1281_r.aspx?artid=364
   
• `Why I Write' in Urban Anatomy, Shanghai, 3rd January 2010, at http://www.urbanatomy.com/index.php/arts/why-i-write/2710-why-i-write-kerry-brown
   
• `The Communist Party of China after 60 Years in Power' in the China Review, China Britain Business Council, December 2009, at http://www.cbbc.org/the_review/pdfs/CBBR%202009/Dec/Analysis.pdf
   
• On China and the EU, in the `Beijing Review', December 7th 2009, at http://english.beijingreview.com.cn/world/txt/2009-12/07/content_233061.htm
   
• Full report on Chinese Overseas Direct Investment, with Dr Peter Wood, XRG Hong Kong, available at http://www.xrg-china.com/main.html
   
• `China and US will no Longer Tolerate Stop Go Diplomacy' in the Independent, 7th October 2009, at http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/kerry-brown-china-and-us-will-no-longer-tolerate-stopgo-diplomacy-1798726.html
   
• `China's Shadow Sector: Power in Pieces', at `Open Democracy', 29th September 2009, http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/china-s-shadow-sector-power-in-pieces
   
• Advice to President Obama before his imminent visit to China in November, at The China Beat, http://www.thechinabeat.org/?p=818
   
• Article in the July unrest in Xinjiang, in the Independent, 9th July 2009, at http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/dr-kerry-brown-chinese-will-never-leave-a-region-rich-in-black-gold-1738065.html
   
• `Reactions of countries outside China to Chinese direct investment', in Oriental Daily (in Chinese), 26th June 2009, at http://epaper.dfdaily.com/dfzb/html/2009-06/26/content_140451.htm
   
• `The UK and China: Dealing with a New Old Friend', Chatham House Briefing paper, 24th June 2009, at http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/research/asia/papers/view/-/id/756/
   
• `The Forum for China Africa Co-operation: Chinese Perspectices in Africa', 27th June 2009, Chatham House Briefing Paper, at http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/research/asia/papers/view/-/id/759/
   
• `Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law takes Hold on Western Companies' in Venture Outsource, http://www.ventureoutsource.com/contract-manufacturing/outsourcing-offshoring/china-manufacturing/china-s-anti-monopoly-law-takes-hold-of-western-companies
   
• Article on New York Times, 4th June 2009, at http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/chinas-new-rebels/#kerry
   
• `China's Tiananmen Moment: The Party Rule' from 3rd June, Open Democracy, at http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/china-s-tiananmen-moment-the-party-rules
   
• `An Anniversary that Haunts China' in `European Voice', on 3rd June, at http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/2009/06/an-anniversary-that-haunts-china/65025.aspx
   
• `The May 23rd 2009 Nuclear Test in North Korea: As Assessment,' in The Independent, 24th May 2009, at http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/kerry--brown-a-chilling-reminder-of-the-last-stalinist-states-power-1690635.html
   
• `Chinese Companies Going Global' (in Chinese) in the Shanghai Oriental Daily Express, 22nd May 2009, at http://epaper.dfdaily.com/dfzb/html/2009-05/22/content_133358.htm
   
• `China's Coming Struggle for Power', in Open Democracy, at http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/china-s-coming-struggle-for-power
   
• Article on Chinese overseas investment in the Guardian, May 11th 2009, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/10/china-foreign-currency-reserves
   
• Interview on downturn of investment in China, political stability and future trends, in InvestEgate, 8th April 2009, at http://www.investegate.co.uk/invarticle.aspx?id=98552
   
• `China is Key to North Korea Deal' in Guardian, Comment is Free, 6 April 2009, at http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/06/nuclear-weapons-north-korea
   
• `China's Overseas Direct Investment' in Financial Times China Confidential, 2-15 April 2009 (subscription only), at http://www.ftchinaconfidential.com/MacroEconomy/BalanceOfPayments/CapitalFlows/Research/Free/WebOnly/article/20090401/cc70ff06-1ef0-11de-839e-00144f2af8e8/Chatham-House-ODI--What-kind-of-opportunity
   
• `Options for a Democratic Taiwan', Chatham House Briefing Paper, available at http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/713/
   
• `China Local, China Global,' on Open Democracy, 11th March 2009, http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/china-local-china-global
   
• Interview on China's territorial aspirations (in Chinese) for the Voice of America, at http://www.voanews.com/chinese/w2009-03-01-voa40.cfm
   
• `Why Does the Chinese Economy Matter,' Briefing paper for sixth forms studying Chinese, published with the Special Schools and Academies Trust, at https://www.schoolsnetwork.org.uk/networks/chinesenetwork/Pages/Chinaconf.aspx
   
• `China's Giant Struggle', in Open Democracy, 5th February 2009, at http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/china-s-giant-struggle
   
• Interview on UK China relations, in the Shanghai Oriental Morning Post (in Chinese): http://www.dfdaily.com/node2/node23/node220/userobject1ai149505.shtml
   
• `Which Five Books on China Should President Obama read', on China Beat, http://thechinabeat.blogspot.com/2009/01/presidential-reading-recommendations.html
   
• `China in 2009: A Year for Surprises'  in OpenDemocracy,  http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/china-in-2009-a-year-for-surprise
   
• `China Overseas Direct Investment and the Economic Crisis: Reaching out' in `The World Today', December 2008, http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/twt/archive/view/-/id/1855/
    
• Interview in Chinese on the impact of the last 30 years of economic liberalisation, in the China Economic Daily, 18th December 2008, http://paper.ce.cn/jjrb/html/2008-12/18/content_42850.htm, http://paper.ce.cn/jjrb/html/2008-12/18/content_42845.htm,
  http://paper.ce.cn/jjrb/html/2008-12/18/content_42849.htm
   
• Quoted in the Washington Observer, 9th December 2008, on the issue of the cancelation of the EU-China Forum, http://www.washingtonobserver.org/international_perspective_show.aspx?id=2800
   
• `The China Factor Amid a Global Crisis' on Venture Outsource, US, at http://www.ventureoutsource.com/contract-manufacturing/outsourcing-offshoring/china-manufacturing/the-china-factor-amid-a-global-crisis
   
• `China Thirty Years On' , an assessment of the reforms China has made since 1978, http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/research/asia/papers/view/-/id/672/
   
• 'China Changes Itself, An Olympic Report', 20th August on Open Democracy, http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/china-changes-itself-an-olympics-report 
   
• 'The Olympic Countdown: Beijing to Shanghai', 6th August, on Open Democracy
  http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/the-olympics-countdown-beijing-to-shanghai
   
• 'China on Olympic Eve: A Globalisation of Sentiment', 7th July 2008, on Open Democracy
  http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/china-on-olympic-eve-a-globalisation-of-sentiment-0
   
• 'Taiwan and China: An Electoral Prelude', 4th April 2008, on Open Democracy
  http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/china/democracy_power/taiwan_and_china_an
  _electoral_prelude
    
• 'Paranoid, Insular and Inept: The Regime has no Plan B', on the September Riots in Burma, 28th September 2007, The Guardian,
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/sep/28/comment.burma
   
• 'China is an Opportunity, Not a Threat' in the Daily Telegraph, August 8th 2007, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/08/16/do1604.xml
   
• 'Why Won't the Chinese make Burma Accept Aid,' in the Independent on Sunday, 11th May 2008,
  http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/kerry-brown-why-wont-the-chinese-make-burma-accept-the-aid-825840.html
   
• 'Why China Matters to Us all,' Times Online, 14th July 2008, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/specials/article4317073.ece
   
• 'China's Energy Security in the 21st Century,' notes for a talk given at Demos, Warsaw, Poland, January 2008, www.demoseuropa.eu/upload/editor/demos/File/KerryBrown_demos_energy_summary.pdf
    
• Interview with Venture Outsource, US, on business in China, March 2008, http://www.ventureoutsource.com/contract-manufacturing/executive-interviews/2008/chinese-authority-dr-kerry-brown-on-chinas-issues-and-western-ways
   
• 'China and the Olympics,' article in The World Today, April 2004, www.chathamhouse.org.uk/files/11459_wt050804.pdf
   
• 'China's Impact on the 21st Century', talk given at the Cabinet Office, April 18th 2008, www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/strategy/seminars/chinas_impact.aspx
   
• 'Eyes on the Prize', a review of Julia Lovell's `The Politics of Cultural Capital: China's Quest for a Nobel Prize' , 30th August 2007, at
  http://www.newasiabooks.org/index.php?q=node/3726
    
• `Beijing: From Imperial Capital to Olympic City', 2nd February 2008, at
  http://www.newasiabooks.org/index.php?q=node/5286
   
• Assorted reviews of China books on Asia Online Review of Books, http://www.asianreviewofbooks.com/arb/byreviewer.php?thisreviewer=93
   
• `The Cultural Revolution in Inner Mongolia: The Purge of the Sons and Heirs of Genghis Khan,' from Asia Affairs, June 2007,
  www.smhric.org/The%20Purge%20of%20the%20Heirs%20of%20Cenghis%20Khan.pdf
   
• `China's Overseas Direct Investment', Chatham House Brieifing Papers, January 2008, http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/research/asia/papers/view/-/id/588/
   
• Other China Briefing papers available at
  http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/research/asia/papers/  
   
• No Reverse Gear: China’s Overseas Direct Investment, a political and economic analysis, presented Hong Kong September 2008 at the CLSA Investors Conference, click here for PDF