China’s Aid Program in Africa a Primer
Over the past decade China has emerged as a major donor of international aid. China’s aid program has effectively been regarded as a state secret, and accordingly analysis of China’s...
China in The 21st Century: Is Global Leadership Possible?
The 21st century is witnessing the decline of the United States as the foremost power in the world, and the gradual emergence of a multipolar order with China at the...
China as A Law-Ruled State: From Top-Down Rhetoric to Bottom-Up Expectations
What is the role of law in maintaining spaces of order in modern Chinese society? In 1996, Jiang Zemin adopted a new official policy of ruling the country in accordance...
Bitter Love: A Silenced Movie of China and Its Implication
Ling Chenguang, a gifted artist without a father, endured hardships during his childhood with the help of benevolent people. During his adolescence at the time of the Japanese occupation, he...
Asia’s New Great Game? The Geopolitics of the South China Sea
The power struggle between the British Empire and Russian Empire for influence in Central Asia during the 19th century was afterwards coined as the Great Game. In this strategic rivalry,...
Demographic Trends in China: Implications for Domestic and Foreign Policies
In the 21st century, China is going to become one of the most important states in the international system. With a population of over 1 billion people, it represents nearly...
Why North Korea is not, and should not be regarded as, a ‘Failed State’
Thousands of miles away from the relative tranquility of the UN Security Council in New York lies a volatile and turbulent nation. A cause of constant international concern, it is...
The Missing Leader
Where is Jiang? As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was celebrating its 90th anniversary on July 1, 2011 one of the key things that fixated China Watchers was that former...
Conflict in the “South China Sea‟
The dispute in the „South China Sea‟ is, as widely known, a multistate affair. Cook (2011), in an interview with Ian Storey, showed that tensions have been escalating in this...
How to think clearly about North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction
Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of current North Korean strongman Kim Jong-un, passed away under circumstances as bizarre as they were suspicious. As in a game of Cluedo, we now have just...
North Korea, the US and the Status Quo
In the age of “fake news” and President Donald Trump claiming that Sweden was riddled with terror attacks which of course never took place, and of perpetual corporate and state-media...
The First Ten Years of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)
Ten years after its establishment on June 15, 2001, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), successor to the original Group of Five (Shanghai Five), is still in a state of flux....
An Analysis of Chinese Naval Deployments in International Waters
Our focus here is to try and explore China‟s previous naval deployments so as to gain a sense of this country‟s foreign policy themes when it comes to the navy....
Rare Metals Industry and Pollution: Assessing Chinese Authoritarianism in the 21st Century
While China‟s economic rise is to be commended the CCP elites have been growing concerned about how to properly manage the stark economic gap between rich and poor (Gini coefficient...
When Money Speaks, Justice is Silent
In late January this year, I was suffocated by the fact that China and Hong Kong were flooded by the news and images of the SinoAmerican meeting. I was...