More: China
How Nuclear Techniques Help Feed China
With 19% of the world’s population but only 7% of its
arable land, China is in a bind: how to feed its growing and increasingly
affluent...
Boao Forum, Belt & Road and East Asian Politics
The Boao
Forum for Asia (BFA), which was formed in 2001, and manages to draw top world leaders, heads of multilateral
institutions, and academics has been...
Japan’s quiet geo-economic rise
In the
turbulent world politics involving extensive international coverage, stable and
humdrum Japan does not have much of a presence. Yet, Japan is the world’s
largest creditor...
Squaring the circle: US challenges China on Xinjiang
A draft US resolution that would designate a Pakistani
militant as a global terrorist threatens to be China’s, and possibly Pakistan’s
showdown at the OK Corral....
Another look at China’s involvement in the power sector in Sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: David Bénazéraf and Yilun Yan*
Chinese companies have significantly enhanced their engagement in Africa
over the last 20 years, covering a wide range of sectors,...
A Great Khan in Italy
On March
23, Mandarin Xi and the government led by Giuseppe Conte signed a memorandum that
sealed the entry into Italy, in the heart of Western...
Chinese Flags over Europe?
As
President Xi Jinping wraps up his week-long tour of Europe, his first overseas
visit of the year, he seems to have left a growing sense...
Balochistan: A powder keg at a geopolitical crossroads
Balochistan should be oozing with optimism as Chinese and Saudi
investment pours into the troubled Pakistani province. It is not. Instead,
Balochistan, a key node in...
The Sino-US Trade War: Why China can’t win it
Does our
history only appear overheated, but is essentially calmly predetermined? Is it
directional or conceivable, dialectic and eclectic or cyclical, and therefore
cynical? Surely, our history...
Civilizationism vs the Nation State
Many have framed the battle lines in the geopolitics
of the emerging new world order as the 21st century’s Great Game. It’s a game
that aims...