China’s confused communication: intentional or underdeveloped?
Written by Parama Sinha Palit. China has erased remaining doubts over the consolidation of the ‘Xi Jinping’ era by abolishing […]
Foreign Local Awareness of the One Belt One Road Initiative
Written by Julie Yu-Wen Chen. China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) Initiative is often seen by observers as a tool […]
Liu Xiaobo and Normalised Norway
Written by Jichang Lulu. Norway’s ‘normalised’ relations with China, under which it has promised it “will not support actions that […]
Tsai Ing-wen’s Administration and Taiwan’s Shrinking International Space
Written by Madhura Balasubramaniam. On Monday 12th June 2017, Panama ended diplomatic relations with Taiwan in favour of establishing diplomatic ties […]
Chinese War and Foreign Correspondents
Written by Shixin Ivy Zhang. In recent years, Chinese journalists have been active in conflict zones such as Iraq, Afghanistan, […]
Autonomy in Hong Kong: what ‘autonomy’ means in practice
Written by Damien Kingsbury. Hong Kong’s ‘one country, two systems’ is sometimes referred to as constituting Hong Kong’s autonomy from […]
Chinese responses to the Trump administration.
Written by Baogang He. In this short article, I will discuss China’s response to the Trump administration. There exists a […]
ASEAN’s Golden Jubilee and Global Britain’s Other Golden Opportunity
Written by Veerle Nouwens. While the term ‘golden’ has thus far been used in relation to UK-China relations, the […]
Introduction to Special Issue on China and the United Kingdom
Written by James Farley. President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the United Kingdom in October 2015 was heralded, at least […]
China-North Korea Relations: Pitfalls and Possibilities
Written by Timothy Rich China is frequently viewed through a myopic lens when it comes to North Korea. It is […]
Targeting Northeastern Tigers: The Anti-Corruption Campaign in Liaoning
Written by Adam Cathcart In assessing the depth and the impact of Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign, few provinces are as […]
Sino-North Korean Relations: Blood Allies without Mutual Trust
Written by Mikyoung Kim. Unlike South Korea which submitted itself to the US for security protection, North Korea has never compromised […]
São Tomé and Príncipe drops Taiwan, embraces China
Written by J. Michael Cole. The African nation of São Tomé and Príncipe on December 20 announced that it was severing […]
Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy and China
Written by Alek Chance. The fact we must all immediately confront when thinking about America’s future foreign policy is that […]
OBOR and the Marshall Plan.
Written by Simon Shen. The concept of “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) continues to be at the center of Chinese […]
Are Chinese-style gardens built outside China a form of ‘soft power’?
Written by Josepha Richard. Chinese-style gardens have been built outside Chinese territories since the 17th century. However, in the 20th […]
Russia and China: Competing or complementary priorities?
Written by Natasha Kuhrt. In Russia’s overall policy in the Asia-Pacific the tendency has been for an intensification of Sino-centrism […]
The Deepening Chinese-Russia Partnership: An American Security Dilemma.
Written by James C. Hsiung. Contrary to general impressions, China and Russia did not enter into an alliance right after […]
Russian Dissatisfaction with China and Its Limits
Written by Gilbert Rozman. After a period of euphoria about Sino-Russian relations in 2014 and the first half of 2015, […]
China’s receding regional ambitions?
Written by Mark Beeson. Few would disagree with the idea that China is a rising power with great international ambitions. For […]
Firm for now: China’s support for the Oslo Accords
Written by Guy Burton. It has become common to hear talk about China as as global ‘rising power’ over the […]
Special Issue: China and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Much has been written in recent times about China’s growing interest and stake in the Middle East, and its potential […]
Preparing to Meet Mr Xi
Written by Kerry Brown. It seems pretty certain that some time in 2015 President Xi Jinping will make his first […]
Netanyahu’s ‘Look East’ Pitch Is Incomplete
Written by Niv Horesh. Last week saw a rare visit by a Japanese Prime Minster to Israel. In view of […]
China at the UN
Written by Peter Ferdinand. For China the UN represents the core institution in global governance – in 1997 Russia and […]
Searching for Inner Peace in Sino-Indian Relations: Xi and Modi’s Buddhist Diplomacy
Written by Peter Martin. Sino-Indian relations lack depth. Leaders of the two countries have long exchanged platitudes about the ancient […]
The souls of diplomats
Written by Kerry Brown. It is unexpected, but it is not in John Le Carre’s celebrated work where you will […]
China and the US: Its good to talk
Written by Kerry Brown. No two powers in history have, at least in the last forty years, talked to each […]
