China All the Pieces Matter: China’s AI Dream April 9, 2018 0 Written by Jeffrey Ding. Marked by the State Council’s release of a national artificial intelligence development plan (AIDP) in July 2017, China’s aggressive pursuit of…
China Social Stability for the Sake of Economic Development February 13, 2018 0 Written by Geping Qiu and Weidi Liu. A principal ethos of Chinese culture and polity, held fast by rulers of the past and present, is…
Asia The Future of (Offensive) Cyberwar in Asia in 2018 January 2, 2018 0 Written by Miguel Alberto Gomez. Since the Russian cyber operation against Estonia in 2007, the notion of using cyberspace to render states defenceless has proven…
China The Unprecedented Reach of China’s Surveillance State December 5, 2017 1 Written by Stanley Lubman. The Chinese Party-state is building a social credit system for collecting information about all of its citizens by police, courts, and…
China China and the US are both shooting for the moon – but don’t call it a space race November 13, 2017 0 Written by Cameron Hunter. On the face of it, it looks like two of the world’s biggest powers are racing to get astronauts back on…
Uncategorized India’s Biometric Program: Panacea or Boomerang? August 29, 2017 0 Written by Sanjib Pohit. India’s quest for a biometric enabled identification of citizens began with Aadhaar which is supposed to provide proof of identity to a…
United States The Shadow of a U.S.-China Arms Race August 1, 2017 2 Written by James Johnson. International relations (IR) scholars of various stripes generally agree that the security dilemma is an inescapable condition in world politics, and at…
Uncategorized To slow climate change, India joins the renewable energy revolution June 12, 2017 0 Written by Arun Agrawal. On June 3, two days after President Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate accord, Indian…
Development Innovation Policy in China: Building a Thucydides’s Tech Trap? July 20, 2015 0 Written by Regina Abrami. In 2012, Graham T. Allison, Director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, warned in a…
Development Why do many Chinese SOEs fail to achieve their ambitions? June 3, 2015 0 Written by Jing Cai. China’s remarkable economic growth since the late 1970s has been accompanied, and in some degree caused, by changes in ownership and corporate…
