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The South China Sea: Understanding the Dragon’s Appetite for Islands
By Sarah Choong Ee Mei According to an ancient Chinese war treatise, as described in Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, “if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred...
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Strife Series on National Perspectives in North-East Asian Rivalries,...
By Andrea Fischetti Northeast Asia is a region of crucial importance, from a strategic and economic point of view. East Asia is home to one fifth of the world’s population, and some of the global...
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By Andrea Fischetti Pacifist Pro-Article 9 Demonstration in Tokyo, May 2014 (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) Characterised as a peace-loving nation, Japan has earned this favourable international reputation...
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By Dean Chen The 2014 Sunflower Movement in Taiwan was widely seen as a societal backlash against further rapprochement between Mainland China and Taiwan, as well as an affirmation of Taiwanese...
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By Riccardo Cociani Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CCP & President of the PRC, and Kim Jong-un, ‘Supreme Leader’ of the DPRK (Credit Image: Getty) There is nothing easy regarding Beijing’s...
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The Cyber Espionage Predominant Purpose Test
By Jessica “Zhanna” Malekos Smith Credit Image: Wikimedia Commons (picture modified by the author) While ‘spying’ may strike some as indecorous state behaviour, it is essentially akin to a bodily...
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Sino-North Korean relationship: a rivalry in brewing?
By Yiming Yu The Sino-DPRK relationship has arguably gradually declined (Credit Image: 38north.org) Interactions between China and North Korea always attract attention, particularly in the time of...
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Why the Terminator might turn out to be Chinese: China’s bid for an...
By Clément Briens A mock robot used part of the ‘Campaign to Stop Killer Robots’, aiming at banning any autonomous AI systems (Credit Image: Getty) Science fiction’s portrayal of Artificial...
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Tactical Instability on the South China Sea and Sino-American Decoupling
By Axel Dessein 30 October 2018 The USS Decatur finds itself seconds from disaster during an unsafe encounter with a Chinese destroyer in September 2018. (Image Credit: US Navy) In late September 2018,...
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India and Pakistan on the Brink of War at Jammu and Kashmir: What Role for...
By Axel Dessein 6 March 2019 Putting the RIC back in BRIC. Russia, India and China met for a trilateral meeting between the country’s foreign ministers, against the backdrop of the unfolding crisis in...
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A Matter of Survival: How the Trade War will Shape China’s Future
By Francesca Ghiretti and Lloyd Yijue Liu 2 May 2019 The trade war between the US and China is just the tip of the iceberg of deeper differences that will have complex ramifications (Manufacturing.net)...
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Internet Sovereignty as a Gateway to Global Norms: The Battle over Global...
by Eve Gleeson 18 July 2019 A borderless world, or not really? (Image credit: Pxhere) Introduction The Internet’s essence as “open, global, [and] borderless” has complicated attempts toward...
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China’s Turbulent Year: 2019
by Kerry Brown Chinese President Xi Jinping faces a turbulent 2020 (Photo Credit: AFP) 2019 was not an easy year for Xi Jinping’s China. The most obvious cause of this was the ongoing tensions with the...
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Turning the Tables: China’s Approach to COVID-19
by Francesca Ghiretti & Lorenzo Mariani China’s Xi Jinping gets tested during a rare appearance amid the Coronavirus outbreak (Image credit: BBC) This article was originally published by the...
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Taiwan Elections: Continuity, Change, and the Cross-Strait Conundrum
by Evita Liagka DPP Demonstrators outside of the DPP Headquarters in Taipei (Image Credit: RFA) The outcome of the January 2020 Taiwanese elections surprised no one. With participation climbing to an...
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Strife Series on Human Rights, Security, and Diplomacy in the Asia Pacific –...
by Anna Tan (Image Credit: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) Editorial In recent years, the world has seen a rising number of civil protests and movements globally. The eruption of the Hong Kong crisis in...
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The Maoist Way of Guerilla Warfare and the Broader Challenge Presented by China
by Tom Harper Long Live Chairman Mao! Long, Long Live! (Image credit: Chineseposter.net) In the eyes of the modern world, Maoism is a relic of a more ideologically divided world and of a China that no...
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Sri Lanka between China and the West: Balancing on a Foreign Policy Tightrope
by Shakthi De Silva Hambantota port, victim of China’s debt-trap diplomacy? (Image credit: AFP) After purportedly falling victim to China’s ‘debt-trap diplomacy’, the island of Sri Lanka took the...
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British Foreign Policy towards China: Short-sightedness Disguised as...
by Anna Tan Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson during the celebrations for Chinese New Year in London, 2020 (Image credit: AFP) When COVID-19 is the product of a breach of human rights within China...
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The Rise of China Inc.: Can it Prevail in the US-China Trade War?
by Guanie Lim & Yat Ming Ooi Founder and chairman of Geely Automobile Li Shufu (second from the left) pictured during a visit to Volvo Car Gent. Geely bought the Volvo brand in 2010 (Image credit:...
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