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Abstract: A secret pact between the Solomon Islands and China, mainly concerned with internal security in the islands, has sparked new US-China competition in the Pacific Island countries. The United States, Australia, and New Zealand worry about a future Chinese base in the Solomons and (...)
This global initiative advanced by the Chinese government lacks much-needed transparency and specific strategies.
China’s well-publicized Belt and Road Initiative to invest in infrastructure projects in other countries has helped it expand its political influence around the world. But a newer, (...)
By the time Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s ten-day tour of the Pacific is over in early June, he will have met with leaders from all ten Pacific island countries that have diplomatic relations with China.
This tour is the second of its kind since 2006 (his predecessor Li Zhaoxing visited (...)
China scored a win with the IMF assigning a higher weight to the yuan in its special drawing rights currency basket. But the currency still has a long way to go before it can challenge the global status of the euro and the US dollar
China has scored a win as the International Monetary Fund (...)
The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian forces has led to the most aggressive financial sanctions by Western countries against another country in modern history.
Two financial sanctions stand out in particular. Firstly, the decision to block the majority of Russian banks from SWIFT, the global (...)
Au Loong-yu explores China’s response to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Xi, please ask Putin to withdraw his troops...
And honour your promise of “respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all nations” – a promise first made by China in the 1955 Bandung Conference, where many former (...)
• US spy chief William Burns says Xi’s own intelligence community ‘doesn’t appear to have told him what was going to happen’
• US officials admit that, despite predicting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion plans, they had underestimated Ukraine’s ability to defend itself
China (...)
Hu Wei is the vice-chairman of the Public Policy Research Center of the Counselor’s Office of the State Council, the chairman of Shanghai Public Policy Research Association, the chairman of the Academic Committee of the Chahar Institute, a professor, and a doctoral supervisor. To read more by (...)
• As the invasion continues, Beijing’s ability to distance itself from the dispute is becoming harder, potentially damaging its economic ambitions
• China could face secondary sanctions or at the very least ‘reputational costs’ due to the perception it is helping prop up the Russian economy (...)
This petition now circulating among Chinese academics on Chinese social media is being now censored by China’s Internet overseers.
The WeChat social media URL address of this petition was soon replaced by this illegal content warning [not reproduced here].
The official PRC attitude seems to (...)
Chinese Source (Xinhua): http://www.news.cn/2022-02/25/c_1128417363.htm
Russian source (TASS): https://tass.ru/politika/13859443
Introduction by Adam Ni, translations by Adam Ni (Chinese) and Anastasiia Rudkovska (Russian)
Introduction
An hour ago (evening February 25, Beijing time), Xinhua (...)
• The Taliban’s victory could give rise to bolder attacks by other extremist groups, threatening China’s economic interests
• There is also a fear that counterterrorism efforts in Xinjiang could be endangered by a resurgence in extremism
The deadly terrorist attacks against the United (...)
China said Wednesday 8 it welcomed the end of “three weeks of anarchy” in Afghanistan with the establishment of a new interim government in Kabul, pledging US$31 million (HK$251 million) in immediate aid as it urged the Taliban to restore order.
The Islamist group seized control of Afghanistan (...)
A people and environmental perspective.
This report aims to provide an overview of some of the issues involved related to Chinese overseas investment and the consequences for recipient countries, the people and the environment. It is hoped that awareness can be raised with a view to (...)
China’s construction of a fence along parts of its varied border with Myanmar has prompted questions about Beijing’s changing approach to the frontier.
Editorial
The land border between China and Myanmar stretches for 2,227 kilometers, through the steep mountains in Myanmar’s Kachin State, past (...)
Parasitising universities and institutions, the Confucius Institute (CI) is a threat to academic freedom, not to mention its role as a propaganda machine. It is not just an innocent place for learning Chinese, but an attempt to establish itself as the sole authority on Chinese studies.
The CI (...)
• Beijing’s diplomats are leading a global effort to breathe new life into the stalled multibillion-dollar scheme, but observers say revitalising it in a post-pandemic world will not be easy
• China said in June that about 60 per cent of projects under the plan had been affected in some way (...)
• Luo Zhaohui, deputy foreign minister for Asian affairs, makes remarks ahead of crucial talks on a code of conduct for the disputed waterway
• He also takes aim at Washington’s partners in the Indo-Pacific, describing the Quad alliance as ‘an anti-China front line’
Beijing has dialled up (...)
The armies of the world’s two most populous nations are locked in a tense face-off high in the Himalayas, which has the potential to escalate as they seek to further their strategic goals.
Officials quoted by the Indian media say thousands of Chinese troops have forced their way into the (...)
China’s hi-tech firms are challenging the west’s belief in the free market’s ability to innovate.
The US military is one of the most powerful forces of state-financed technological innovation in the world. It has produced such important innovations as the internet, GPS technologies and LCD (...)
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