Afghan Peace Process The long read: What next for the US–Taliban ‘peace deal’? April 8, 2020 0 Image credit: Afghanistan by i postcross/Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Raghav Sharma. My darling, you are just like America! You are guilty, I…
Asia A bright future for China’s cashless payment systems in Indonesia March 26, 2020 0 Image Credit: Support Alipay and WeChat Pay by N509FZ/ Wikimedia Commons, Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International Written by Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat. There has been much…
Belt and Road Initiative China manoeuvres to protect its interests while keeping its hands clean March 26, 2020 0 Image credit: Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptors by Robert Sullivan/Flickr; licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0. Written by James M. Dorsey. The question is not if, but…
Belt and Road Initiative China’s partnership diplomacy and the successful implementation of the BRI March 25, 2020 0 Image credit: Cairo by Simona Scolari/Flickr; licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Written by Mordechai Chaziza. In recent years, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has significantly…
Belt and Road Initiative China’s partnership diplomacy in the Middle East March 24, 2020 0 Image credit: COP21_151208c-0651 by Mark Dixon/Flickr; licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Degang Sun. Two decades into the twenty-first century, we can see how the…
Belt and Road Initiative China’s involvement in the Levant: It’s the economy after all March 20, 2020 0 Image credit: Suez Canal (2007-06-345) by Vyacheslav Argenberg/Flickr; licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Yoram Evron. The Levant – a sub-region of the Middle East consisting…
Asia How Asia perceives China in the context of BRI: Evidence from an Asian poll March 19, 2020 0 Image Credit: Secretary-General Addresses Belt and Road Initiative Forum, Beijing by United Nations Photo/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 By Zhenqing Zheng. Following the end of…
Belt and Road Initiative Exploring China’s strategic intentions in Central, West and South Asia March 18, 2020 0 Image credit: P1020506 by Will Clayton/Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Anoush Ehteshami. Since the early 2000s, the great, major and regional powers alike…
Belt and Road Initiative Infrastructure investment and China’s image problem in Southeast Asia March 13, 2020 0 Image credit: Opening of the Magampura Port, Hambantota, Sri Lanka by Dhammika Heenpella/Flickr; licence CC BY-NC 2.0. Written by Chee Meng Tan. In 2015, the…
Asia Can Asian and G7 policymakers save the global economy from the economic fallout of COVID-19? March 6, 2020 0 Image Credit: Emergenza coronavirus by Dipartimento Protezione Civile/Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Bob Savic. News travels fast – to coin a time-worn phrase.…