Belt and Road Initiative China’s partnership diplomacy and the successful implementation of the BRI March 25, 2020 0 Image credit: Cairo by Simona Scolari/Flickr; licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Written by Mordechai Chaziza. In recent years, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has significantly…
China The Sino-Russian partnership in the Arctic March 15, 2018 0 Written by Elizabeth Wishnick. In December 2017, the 27 billion dollar Yamal LNG project became operational, the first joint Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)-Eurasian Economic Union…
China OBOR: Re-orient Opening to galvanize Reform October 12, 2016 0 Written by Yong Deng. Soon after inauguration as the top Chinese leadership, President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang rolled out the Silk Road program or…
Culture and Society Cracks in China’s New Silk Road March 15, 2016 0 Written by Michael Clarke. Francis Fukuyama recently argued that President Xi Jinping’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ (OBOR) strategy ‘represents a striking departure in Chinese policy’…
China Imperial Examination Tradition and Today’s Foreign Policy Making in China June 26, 2015 0 Written by Yiyi Chen. In a previous paper, I made the observation that today's Chinese Communist Party central government makes its foreign policy decisions transparently,…
China Where the Silk Roads Meet: Foreign Religions in Quanzhou in the Age of Marco Polo June 25, 2015 0 Written by Samuel Lieu. The Silk Road as an artery for the exchange of goods, people, ideas and religions reached its apogée during the time of…
International Relations Is China the Persian Gulf’s Future Outside Power? June 24, 2015 0 By Philip Gater-Smith. Security and oil have typically been the two dominant themes of international coverage of the Middle East. The news in recent months has hardly…
China The Silk Road Economic Belt and Its Discontents June 23, 2015 0 Written by Ivaylo Gatev. On 18 November 2014, an international freight train left the Yiwu railway container centre in China’s eastern Zhejiang province and began…
China A Pretext Out of Context: Contemporary China’s Obsession with Pan-Turkism June 22, 2015 0 Written by Yitzhak Shichor. Before 1990, Chinese academic journals rarely published articles on Pan-Turkism - usually once a year or less. However, from 1991 through…
International Relations Is China part of the solution or part of the problem in the Arab-Israeli peace process? March 2, 2015 0 Written by Sam Chester. Much ink has been spilled in recent years on speculation that the Chinese state, buoyed by its growing economic imprint and…
