Philippines The Philippines, Duterte, and the Undeserving Poor February 21, 2017 0 Written by Pauline Eadie. On the eve of the 2016 Philippine election, then presidential candidate Rodrigo Roa Duterte announced to voters that he was ready to…
Development Japan’s Indigenous Weapons Development and Regional Defense Cooperation February 21, 2017 1 Written by Scott N. Romaniuk, Tobias J. Burgers and Shih-Yueh Yang. Japan has been active in weapons research and development (WRD) for several decades. During the…
China How new is the ‘Belt and Road’? October 7, 2016 4 Written by Raffaello Pantucci. Back in the late 1990s, then-PRC President and Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin noticed that the country was facing an imbalance. Deng…
China The Internationalisation of Chinese NGOs September 29, 2016 2 Written by Jennifer YJ Hsu. There is increasing interest in China’s role as an international development actor due to its growing presence across the developing…
China-Italy Mao’s China as a market for Western Europe? PRC early economic exchanges and implications for the international economy October 23, 2015 0 Written by Valeria Zanier. It was widely known by analysts during the Cold War that business across the two sides of the Iron Curtain was quite…
China China’s hukou urbanisation October 15, 2015 0 Written by Monika Chansoria. The rising urban-rural divide has become a serious socio-political challenge for the Chinese government. In an attempt to confront this mounting…
China China’s New Urbanisation Plan October 14, 2015 0 Written by Zhou Zhihua. In recent decades, in tandem with socio-economic development, urbanisation at the global level has increased from 29% in 1950 to 52%…
Culture and Society A Road Map to Sustainable Universal Health Coverage? September 15, 2015 0 Written by Tsung-Mei Cheng. As the era of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is drawing to an end, United Nations member states are defining the…
Culture and Society Does Chinese Innovation Need Yu? June 5, 2015 0 Written by William H.A. Johnson. Jack Ma, the colourful founder of the Chinese internet juggernaut, Alibaba, has often talked about the failure of the Chinese…
China China’s AIIB Dream June 3, 2015 0 By Jan Knoerich. The process of establishing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is a clear manifestation of China’s growing international leverage on issues of…
