China Unbound: What An Emboldened China Means For The World
China has definitely risen. NPR's correspondents set out to find out what that entails, reporting from more than a dozen countries across the globe.
On Nov. 11, 1861, the Qing dynasty opened a new agency to deal with foreigners. A target for the West's "gunboat diplomacy," the last imperial Chinese government had been forced to recognize a wider world and, with little leverage, it entered into a series of unequal treaties that crippled its economy and left it only more vulnerable. Still, Chinese officials believed the crisis would pass. It was for
