East Asia

Ice Silk Road: From Dream to reality

Authors: Mahdi Torabi*, Vahid Pourtajrishi The history of Silk Road backs to thousands years ago. The aim of creation of this route was linking China...

China’s military doctrine with President Xi Jinping

Which is President Xi Jinping’s military doctrine and his  "warfare rationale"? With a view to well understanding the evolution of Chinese warfare studies to date,...

Korea after the Olympics: Temporary Truce or Permanent Peace?

Thanks to the “New Year’s” initiatives of Kim Jong-un – to which South Korean Moon Jae-in responded for his own reasons – significant progress...

A Great Turnaround on the Korean Peninsula

Authors: Wang Li & Petro Shevchenko* On March 8, the whole world was stunned by a breaking news that “Kim Jung-un invites Trump to meet”,...

Zhou Enlai’s Legacy in China’s Diplomacy

Authors: Wang Li & Yang Yi-zhong In a survey of China’s politics since 1949, Premier Zhou Enlai is an undisputedly great statesman as he took...

Would the Taiwan Travel Bill Be A Challenge to One-China Policy?

China perceives Taiwan its a wayward province out of Civil War 1949. Since then, Taiwan is being perceived as its integral part and hence...

North Korea’s future geopolitics

In the phase immediately after the end of the 23rd Winter Olympics in PyeongChang - a site located in South Korea -North Korea’s new...

Xi Jinping’s political and strategic line

Based on the long and careful speech delivered by Chinese President Xi Jinping on New Year's Eve, it is currently useful to identify his...

China’s soft power and its Lunar New Year’s Culture

Authors: Liu Hui & Humprey A. Russell* As a common practice, China has celebrated its annual Lunar new year since 1984 when the leaders of...

China’s step into the maelstrom of the Middle East

The Middle East has a knack for sucking external powers into its conflicts. China’s ventures into the region have shown how difficult it is to...

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