China Taiwan and the Diaoyutai Spat: Is All that Noise Really Necessary? July 29, 2015 0 Written by J. Michael Cole. If a few years ago you had asked people outside the region whether they had ever heard about the Diaoyutai islets,…
China China, Japan and the Media: The Politics and Business of Selective Remembering June 27, 2015 0 Written by Wanning Sun. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the end of China’s ‘War against the Japanese Invasion’. It may therefore be an opportune…
China-Japan Don’t Blame Abe…Help Him! April 9, 2015 0 Written by Zhiqun Zhu Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been portrayed as a staunch nationalist bent on revising Japan’s pacifist Constitution. From visiting the…
China-Japan The Power of People-to-People Diplomacy in Japan-China Relations February 27, 2015 1 Written by Zhiqun Zhu. International relations are traditionally conducted by national leaders, government officials and diplomats. Yet the power of citizen exchanges, or “people-to-people diplomacy”,…
China-Japan Xi Jinping’s Nanking Massacre Commemoration and China’s Anti-Japanese Calendar December 15, 2014 0 Written by Adam Cathcart. 2014 has been a banner year for the Chinese Communist Party's politics of historical commemoration of the War of Resistance against…
China-Japan Japan’s election: Abe is the best option for peace and stability in East Asia November 21, 2014 0 Written by Alex Calvo. The announcement of an early election in Japan has been accompanied by intense debate on the state of the country's economy…
China-Japan Anti-ship missiles in the defence of Taiwan: Limited war or people’s war? August 19, 2014 0 Written by Alex Calvo. More than thirty years on, the shadow of the 1982 Falklands War looms large over East Asia, as made clear by…
China-Japan China’s Perspective on the ADIZ: Backfire or Signal Flare? November 29, 2013 6 Written by Huang Wei. China’s recent move to establish the East China Sea Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) is widely considered negative and seen by…
China-Japan China’s dangerous gamble November 29, 2013 2 Written by J. Michael Cole. The announcement by China on November 23 that it had established and would enforce an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ)…
China-Japan Japan reacts to China’s ADIZ November 28, 2013 0 Written by Corey Wallace. If China’s recent announcement establishing an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) was concocted as part of a strategy to put more…