Belt and Road Initiative Infrastructure investment and China’s image problem in Southeast Asia March 13, 2020 0 Image credit: Opening of the Magampura Port, Hambantota, Sri Lanka by Dhammika Heenpella/Flickr; licence CC BY-NC 2.0. Written by Chee Meng Tan. In 2015, the…
Internet Sister Lotus and the cult of the selfie in China June 28, 2015 0 Written by Valeria Varriano. This is the age of selfies and selfie sticks. The self-portrait taken by the camera of a smartphone, which is immediately distributed…
China-UN China’s Approach to the Syrian Crisis: Beyond the United Nations December 15, 2014 0 Written by Yun Sun. The war in Syria warrants a unique mention in the history of contemporary Chinese foreign policy. In the context of this…
China-UN China at the UN December 12, 2014 0 Written by Peter Ferdinand. For China the UN represents the core institution in global governance – in 1997 Russia and China issued a joint declaration…
China-UN Passive Activism: China and the Middle East in the UN December 8, 2014 0 Written by Yitzhak Shichor. Having been excluded from the UN for over two decades, Mao’s China often condemned the UN as an evil organisation under…
China China’s struggle with soft power October 22, 2013 0 Written by Gary Rawnsley. In 1990, Joseph Nye published Bound to Lead, which first introduced the term Soft Power to the vocabulary of international relations.…
