China The US-China trade war: Will there be a Phase Two? February 17, 2020 0 Image credit: President Trump at the G20 by The White House/Flickr; licence: Public Domain Mark 1. Written by Salvatore Babones. Shortly before the coronavirus became global…
Asia American distrust vis-à-vis North Korea’s desperation and dismal reputation: A poor negotiating cocktail May 13, 2019 0 Written by Liang Tuang Nah. Image Credit: North Korea - Flag by Roman Harak/Flickr, License CC BY-SA 2.0. Following the failure of the second summit between…
Afghanistan India’s Afghanistan dilemma and the way forward April 26, 2019 0 Written by Maroof Raza. India’s role in the future of Afghanistan – in the aftermath of a US withdrawal, which looks quite certain following President Trump’s…
Australia Australian strategic policy and the China challenge February 27, 2019 0 Written by Mark Beeson. Australia may be something of an odd man out in the East Asian region, but it does have one thing in…
China Trump Withdrawing: Global Forces and Forecasting Taiwan in 2019 and Beyond (Part 2) January 27, 2019 0 Written by Ian Inkster. The first part of this paper outlined trends that could dominate discussions on Taiwan’s international position in 2019, providing a shaky…
China Trump Withdrawing: Global Forces and Forecasting Taiwan in 2019 and Beyond (Part 1) January 26, 2019 0 Written by Ian Inkster Most social scientists now regard global dynamics as a complex system, more akin to a human body than to the workings…
Asian Century Chinese and American dreaming: The Road or The Wall? January 16, 2019 2 Written by Michael A. Peters. Richard Rorty, the American pragmatist, suggested that Walt Whitman and John Dewey provided a narrative re-crafting of the American Dream…
Business The Huawei detention: Who’s intervening now? January 15, 2019 0 Written by Nicholas Borroz. Donald Trump, through his interactions with China, is dealing a death blow to a myth that has long been dying: he…
ASEAN A fraught and frightening future? Southeast Asia under the shadow of Trump’s America and Xi’s China January 14, 2019 0 Written by Ja Ian Chong. If the tumult from last November’s APEC Summit in Papua New Guinea is any indication, then Southeast Asia seems set…
China Celebrating 46 years: the Jamaica–China connection November 30, 2018 0 Written by Vicki Cann. November 21, 2018, marks the 46th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between Jamaica and China. Ten years after gaining…