China China’s confused communication: intentional or underdeveloped? March 21, 2018 1 Written by Parama Sinha Palit. China has erased remaining doubts over the consolidation of the ‘Xi Jinping’ era by abolishing Article 79 of the Constitution…
China Xi Jinping’s presidency will change China forever – for better or worse February 28, 2018 0 Written by Dylan Loh Ming Hui. Thanks to surprising new constitutional amendments – curiously, first announced in English – the path is clear for Xi Jinping and…
China Xi Jinping’s power grab creates systemic instability February 27, 2018 0 Written by J. Michael Cole. The China-watching punditry has been aflutter since the not entirely unexpected announcement on Sunday that China was dropping the term…
Hong Kong Constitutional Impasse in Hong Kong January 30, 2014 0 Written by Michael C. Davis. The global media has recently been fixated on a number of seemingly intractable constitutional impasses that have given rise to…
Hong Kong Hong Kong political discourse and its metaphors January 27, 2014 0 Written by Jennifer Eagleton. 2014 sees the 30th anniversary of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, the document that sealed the end of British rule in Hong…
Politics Will the Constitution Become Nominal Too? Reflections on Taiwan’s Nominal National Day October 15, 2013 1 Written by Ming-sung Kuo In modern Chinese history, 10th October 1911 is a landmark. It is to that historical day that the birth of the first…