China is stepping up it's development efforts in Central Asia.

"No one wishes for a total Chinese collapse, but certain setbacks should be welcomed."

How China's economic growth could be leading it toward a situation like Japan's in the 1990s.

"There’s a palpable sense of social tension in China these days, a shadow side to the triumphalism of its spectacular economic rise. Policy makers and economists frequently single out the by-now glaring rich-poor gap as a key factor. Increasingly, the poor are resentful, and the wealthy barricade themselves in walled compounds, hire bodyguards or send their families overseas."

The data show that growth in China is not dropping at the same rate as industrialized Western countries.

China is cracking down on Uighur dissent websites.

"Confessions of a fake businessman from Beijing."

"Do China’s grand designs promise the transformation,at last, of a star-crossed continent? Or merely its exploitation?"

China is making a big push for environmentally-friendly energy policies but these must be kept in perspective.

"Indonesia now wants to raise its diplomatic game, acting the part of a regional power with a global impact. One sign of this is a desire to be ranked among the BRIC economic club of Brazil, Russia, India and China."

China's civil unrest is growing and some officials are giving warnings that there's worse to come.