International Relations The Failed North Korean ‘Satellite’ Launch – an opportunity for a Sino-Japanese symbiotic solution? April 23, 2012 0 By Mike Bastin. North Korea’s very recent rocket launch has of course provoked international condemnation and outrage, despite the fact that the rocket appears to…
International Relations China’s Foreign Relations in 2011 with an Update March 28, 2012 0 By Hongyi Lai. The year of 2011 was one of mixed blessing for China’s foreign relations. On the one hand China enjoyed a rapidly rising…
International Relations Light On Unofficial Discourse: ‘Restoring China to its rightful place’ March 19, 2012 0 By Sam Beatson. Soft semantic shifts in the rhetoric used in China’s foreign policy procedures betray the clandestine nature of internal decision making processes. That…
Culture and Society Cross-Strait Linsanity March 1, 2012 2 By Martin Boyle. Few readers of this blog can have failed to notice how ‘Linsanity’ has broken out in the US and on both sides…
International Relations Vice President Xi Jinping’s Visit to the U.S. – Managing Images, Not Policy Issues February 13, 2012 3 By Don Keyser. The U.S.-China bilateral agenda is brimming with frictions, diverging perspectives, and outright conflicts of interest -- what senior Chinese officials now routinely…
International Relations China takes a lead over Syria February 7, 2012 5 By Steve Tsang. The Chinese government has not only vetoed a draft UN resolution over Syria but also articulated the view that it has done…
International Relations So where does North Korea go from here? December 28, 2011 0 By Steve Tsang, published in Nottingham Post Wednesday December 28, 2011. THE leader of the last totalitarian state, Kim Jong-il, is dead. But this is…
International Relations A US overture now may find welcome in Pyongyang December 23, 2011 0 Steve Tsang says Washington should certainly try, given the benefits of success. Published in the South China Morning Post, 23 December 2011. As an unpredictable…
International Relations China, Arms Regulation and Human Security December 16, 2011 0 How can the world be made safer and what role can China play in that process? In November 2011 the Institute for Asia-Pacific Studies, Centre for…
International Relations Calming Influence December 8, 2011 0 China should understand the regional worries about its rise that lie behind America’s strategy of engagement with Asia, and seek to allay those fears –…
