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The strategic aims of Chinese cyber industrial espionage
By Christy Quinn: The recent indictment of several People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officers linked to the 61398 Unit, accused of industrial espionage against several US private companies and trade union...
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A creative mind? An early assessment of Modi’s foreign policy
By Zoha Waseem: As Narendra Modi prepares to depart for the 6th summit of BRICS during what will be the Indian Prime Minister’s first international appearance since being voted into office in May this...
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Cyber Security in China
By Christy Quinn: Greg Austin, Cyber Policy in China. China Today. Cambridge, Malden: Polity Press, 2014. Pp. 232. £ 15.99, paperback; £50.00, hardback; £10.99, e-book. ISBN: 978-0-7456-6979-3. * From...
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Is this the end of the Kuomintang in Taiwan? Ma Yingjeou, China, and the KMT...
By Jeroen Gelsing: A weary Ma Yingjeou led the Kuomintang to an unprecedented electoral defeat (AP Photo / Arnulfo Franco) Many have observed that Barack Obama’s presidency has aged him beyond his...
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Drawing in the dragon: China’s involvement in Africa’s peace & security
By Semiha Abdulmelik: Chinese engineers serving with UNAMID in Darfur, Sudan. UN Photo/Stuart Price (creative commons). ‘Meaningful participation in African conflict-resolution processes is not an...
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Taiwan’s new ‘Carrier Killer’ shows both strength and weakness
By Jackson Webster: Taiwan’s new Tuo Jiang class corvette ‘carrier killer’ (Photo: Wikipedia) This January, Taiwan’s navy received the first order of its newest vessel, the Tuo Jiang. The Taiwan Navy...
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Why Japan should put boots on the ground on the Senkaku Islands
By Alex Calvo: A Japanese surveillance plane flies over one of the disputed Senkaku Islands. 13 October, 2011. Photo: Chính Dang-Vu (published under fair use policy for intellectual non-commercial...
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Ma’s legacy and Xi’s strategy: the way ahead for cross-strait relations
By: Lauren Dickey Mainland China and Taiwan, divided by a small strait and historical debates of sovereignty and statehood. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_map_of_China_%26_Taiwan.png A...
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Despite a Historic Summit, Cross-Strait Relations Faces the ‘Certainty of...
By: Jeroen Gelsing Ma’s grin belies a fraught reality. Source: AFP/Roslan Rahman On November 7, the world’s press thronged into the Island Ballroom of Singapore’s Shangri-La Hotel. The occasion marked...
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The Strategy of Star Wars: The Rebel Alliance as a Maoist Insurgency
Star Wars has been a cultural behemoth for over forty years. As fans of the series well know, in its origins, George Lucas’s original trilogy of films drew heavily from preceding works. Its plot,...
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Somewhere, under the sea: maritime claims and territorial disputes in the...
By: Cheng Lai Ki Source: CNET The territorial disputes in the South China Sea involve the maritime claims between several sovereign states within the region. The tension fundamentally involves...
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PROXY Capabilities – Proliferation and Patronage: UAV Diffusion as a New Form...
This is the third of a series of articles we will be featuring on Strife in the coming week looking at the role of Proxy Warfare in the 21st century by Series Editor Cheng Lai Ki. Previous articles in...
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Professor Kerry Brown on The Rise of Xi Jinping: Power and Politics in Modern...
Interview with Professor Kerry Brown conducted by Lauren Dickey 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Source: Wikimedia Lauren Dickey: What made you write `CEO China: The Rise of Xi...
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How Japan can deter China’s increasing maritime activity
By: Gen Kawasaki Minami Kojima (foreground), Kita Kojima (middle right) and Uotsuri (background) are the disputed islands in the East China Sea, called Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese....
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Drawing in the dragon: China's involvement in Africa's peace & security
By Semiha Abdulmelik: Chinese engineers serving with UNAMID in Darfur, Sudan. UN Photo/Stuart Price (creative commons). ‘Meaningful participation in African conflict-resolution processes is not an...
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Taiwan’s new ‘Carrier Killer’ shows both strength and weakness
By Jackson Webster: Taiwan’s new Tuo Jiang class corvette ‘carrier killer’ (Photo: Wikipedia) This January, Taiwan’s navy received the first order of its newest vessel, the Tuo Jiang. The Taiwan Navy...
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Why Japan should put boots on the ground on the Senkaku Islands
By Alex Calvo: A Japanese surveillance plane flies over one of the disputed Senkaku Islands. 13 October, 2011. Photo: Chính Dang-Vu (published under fair use policy for intellectual non-commercial...
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The Little Blue Men: China’s Maritime Proxy-Warfare Strategy
By: Cheng Lai Ki Maritime tensions in the East Asia region are undoubtedly a hallmark event of the early twenty-first century, as well as of the emergence of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as a...
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Fact or Fiction? ‘One Country, Two Systems’ in Hong Kong
By: Lauren Dickey Democracy Goddess at Chinese University of Hong Kong (4 November 2016), author photo China in the late 1970s saw a proliferation of democracy walls (民主牆) in a short period of...
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Trump and China: Chaos or Harmony?
By: Professor Kerry Brown Narvikk | E+ | Getty Images In the brutal and divisive presidential election campaign in the US over 2016, if foreign policy figured in the words of the then candidate Donald...
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