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…
China Chinese Police Legitimacy and Public Trust February 16, 2018 0 Written by Yuning Wu & Ivan Sun. Lei Yang, a 28-year-old state employee and an alumnus of a prestigious Chinese university, was declared dead less…
News Room for Debate? News and Public Opinion in China May 4, 2017 0 Written by Ya-Wen Lei. Common indices used by social scientists to measure levels of freedom and to classify political regimes suggest that civil and political…
China The Death Penalty in China May 9, 2016 0 Written by Hong Lu. As of 2015, approximately 70% of the countries around the globe (140 out of 198) had abolished the death penalty in…
Taiwan The Consolidation of Taiwanese Identity and its Impact on Cross-Strait Relations January 8, 2016 0 Written by Yitan Li. As the new year begins, the 2016 presidential election in the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan has entered the final…
Security The troubled transition to an all-volunteer force in Taiwan December 23, 2014 0 Written by Michal Thim. Plans are underway to transform Taiwan’s military from a force relying on a regular intake of conscripts aged 18-35 and serving…
One Country Two Systems You Must Have One Country Before You Have One Country, Two Systems December 5, 2014 4 Written by Don Rodgers. The People’s Republic of China officially views Taiwan as a “sacred and inseparable part of China’s territory.” Yet, Taiwan is currently…
Chinese media Networked China: New forms of civic engagement November 12, 2014 0 Written by Stephen D. Reese. The communication landscape in China includes many contradictions, with a government bent on control of that communication while promoting the…
China GM in China: ‘Paranoia’ and public opinion August 26, 2014 1 Written by Sam Geall. Biosafety certificates permitting Chinese researchers to grow genetically modified rice and corn expired last week, with little indication that the Ministry…
China-Japan (Un)leashing Public Opinion: The State, Media, and Audience Demands during Anti-Japanese Protests in China February 20, 2013 0 By Danie Stockmann. Nationalism seems to be on the rise in China. Since the late 1990s nationalist protests have taken place almost annually. As evident…
