China Nationalism, militarism and Chinese support for the use of force February 10, 2020 0 Image credit: Red Army in Tiananmen by schmeeve/ flickr; licence CC BY-SA 2.0. Written by Kingsley Edney. Chinese nationalism has long been viewed as a…
China Small islands, big issues in East Asia July 10, 2018 0 Written by Tim Liao. Tokyo’s new National Museum of Territory and Sovereignty opened this year, a permanent collection of historical documents highlighting Japan’s official territorial…
China Incursions, Innocent Passage, or Costly Signals: Chinese Activity in the East China Sea July 10, 2018 0 Written by Krista E. Wiegand. On July 4, China conducted another incursion of coast guard ships passing into Japanese waters in the East China Sea.…
China Does China have or need an external military policy? December 9, 2016 0 Written by Peter Lorge. It has been almost three decades since the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) last launched a significant military operation outside of its…
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-Japan Sino-Japanese Relations: The Security Perspective February 18, 2013 2 By June Teufel Dreyer. The recent revelation of two incidents in which Chinese frigates locked target radars onto Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force (MSDF) assets…
Culture and Society Anti-Japanese Outbursts and Beijing’s Dilemma amid Territorial Row September 26, 2012 4 by Su-Jeong Kang. Amid ongoing territorial spats between China and Japan, several anti-Japanese demonstrations have been reported across China (see CPI blog here). The latest…
International Relations The Diaoyu Issue: Managing Nationalism, Continuing Pragmatism September 1, 2012 1 By Zhengxu Wang. Inside China, as Beijing tries to get things in order for this autumn’s Communist Party congress, a wave of public mobilisation, no…
