East Asia

Considering the Continental Dimension of the Indo-Pacific: The Mongolian Precedent

The Indo-Pacific is now the site of global great-power competition and contestation. And, as a reflection of its growing importance in international discourse, a...

Time to play the Taiwan card

At a time when the dragon is breathing fire, India must explore alternative tactics, perhaps establishment of formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan can be...

Pro-Communism warping Hong Kong

The latest turmoil in the Covid-ridden strata of mainland China is not servile to any pandemic, however, the issue has been one of the...

The Belligerent Chinese Diplomacy and Its Failure

The Chinese media has recently reported of Xi Jinping writing a letter to George Schultz the former chairman of Starbucks, the US coffee giant....

The Problem of Uncontrolled Nationalism: The Case of Japan before the WWII

Authors: Chan Kung and Yu(Tony) Pan* Throughout the modern history of the world, Japan is undoubtedly an interesting country: it went from the edge of...

CCP’s Motives for the Cultural Genocides in Tibet and East Turkestan

Despite more than sixty years military invasion of independent Tibet and East Turkestan (Ch. Xinjiang) by People’s liberation army of Chinese Communist Party (CCP). ...

China according to Pascal Gauchon

There is no doubt that the United States wants to safeguard its global hegemony but this does not mean that the United States will...

Goodbye 2020 and a Glance at the Most Populous Countries in The World

Happy New Year!  Let's hope that 2021 brings us back what we lost through 2020 -- the spirit of feeling free instead of having...

The new geopolitics of China’s climate leadership

Since 2014, China has embarked on a new era of confident, independent international policy activism under President Xi Jinping – the origins of which...

The Great Makeover of Confucius Institutes: Re-Branding or Camouflaging?

China’s Confucius Institutes represent a global network of institutes that aims to represent China’s culture worldwide, ensure mutual understanding and cooperation, and offer language...

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