Xi Jinping’s visit to Italy and the relationship between China and the Catholic Church
No official
meetings between President Xi Jinping and Pope Francis are officially scheduled
on the agenda for the Chinese President's next visit to Italy.
Neither party wants...
Chinese pressure tactics put countries between a rock and a hard place
Recent Chinese pressure on
Myanmar to approve a controversial dam project and the arrest in recent
days in Kazakhstan of a human rights activist suggest that...
Disrespecting China: The Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Controversy
The dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands
has been a long and controversial one. China claims to have historical evidence
showing sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands. However,...
North Korea’s Nuclear Mindset: Why Nukes Still Matter
North Korea has evolved from a weakened
country to one seen as a legitimate global military power due to its acquisition
of nuclear weapons. Although, strength...
One China One System? The Geopolitics of Forcing Taiwan’s Hand
On New
Year’s Day1979, The Standing Committee of the Fifth National People's Congress
of the People's Republic of China abruptly stopped shelling Taiwan’s offshore
islands, changed their...
China’s rise and the Napoleonic prophecy
“China is a sleeping giant. Let her lie
and sleep, for when she awakens she will astonish the world.” These were the
some of the last...
Turkish-Chinese spat puts Central Asian leaders on the spot
A Turkish-Chinese spat as a result of Turkish criticism of China’s crackdown on
Turkic Muslims in its strategic but troubled north-western province
of Xinjiang complicates efforts...
The future relations between the U.S. and North Korea after the failure of the Hanoi Summit
It is not
so obvious we can define -sic et simpliciter - the recent Summit held in Hanoi
between the leader of the Democratic People’s Republic...
The forthcoming meeting between Kim Jong-Un and Donald J. Trump
The meeting between the leader of the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Kim Jong-Un, and the President of the
United States, Donald J. Trump, will be...
China’s economic transformation under “New Normal”
China’s double digit growth, also termed as “old normal growth” had dominated the country’s economy since 1980s. Despite the rapid economic development over the...