Diplomatic Duplicity: China and Nuclear Non-proliferation
China’s application of non-proliferation controls has been the subject of intense and ongoing criticism from the West, yet it has continued to be allowed...
EU-China Cooperation – Assessment of Key Policy Areas
This paper has a general and also a sectoral angle to analyse EU-China relations. Apart from putting this relationship into a general historical and...
China: Team Players or Team Captains?
As China, projected to be the dominant state of the next century, continues to grow exponentially, many regional and global powers are concerned about...
Problems of Japan
Based on the World Health Organization (WHO) every year natural disasters kill around 90.000 people and effect close to 160 million people worldwide. ...
The new world order and China’s role in it
Thirty years ago China's share of world trade hovered below 1% but has increased more than tenfold since. Every year since the turn of...
China Ready to Gulp in South China Sea
Speedily and surreptitiously moving ahead in reclamations, constructions and deployment of its military bases in South China Sea (SCS), China seems definitely not using...
Burdens of Tibet
Asia was in 2014 based on the Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (HIIK) Conflict Barometer for 2014 report accounted for the most conflicts...
Danger of undefined territories in the South and East China Sea
The number of disputes has risen over the decades in the region known for dynamic economy, competition, rich waters, possible big oil and gas...
Resolving territorial disputes in the Far East – Kuril Islands
A dispute over Kuril Islands is the reason why Russia and Japan still after more than 70 years have not signed a peace treaty...
Europe and China – Factors of Mutual Understanding
Geopolitics: enmity, rapprochement, concrete political or military decisions besides straightforward interests are often based on perceptions and influenced by the (lack of) understanding of...