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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,...
China Opens a New Military Base in Tajikistan
Western
media outlets recently announced China has built military facilities on the
Tajik side of the Tajik-Chinese border. The move is significant as it is first
confirmation...
Italy and the Belt & Road Initiative
There has been a growing
scepticism with regard to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) project in many
quarters, due to the lack of transparency with...
Future of BRICS: BRAXIT or ‘Power Next’?
The club of emerging political and economic
powers of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa in response to new
global challenges is famously known as...
Kazakh police raid raises spectre of China’s long arm
A police raid on a
Kazakh group documenting the plight of Kazakhs and Uyghurs caught in a brutal crackdown in China’s north-western
province of Xinjiang is...
Conrad Hotels & Resorts Debuts in Hangzhou, China’s Hub for Technology and Innovation
Hilton announced
the opening of Conrad Hangzhou, a 50-story, 324-room state-of-the-art hotel that provides easy access
to the city’s downtown recreational and cultural attractions. With Li'An
restaurant...
Beijing air improvements provide model for other cities
More than 20 years after Beijing began looking for ways to improve air
quality in one of the largest and fastest growing cities in the...
Cyber Warfare: Competing National Perspectives
The threat of cyberwarfare is a growing
fear among all intelligence communities. “In June 2009 the U.S. Cyber Command
was created and in July of 2011...
Compromises and Cooperation in Afghanistan’s Resettlement
Just after,
the Soviet Union’s disintegration, US owned unipolarity over the world. Then,
US engage itself in Asian conflicts. During the same era, China emerged in...
Walking a Chinese tightrope: Kazakh quiet diplomacy produces limited results
The Kazakh government, in defense of Kazakh and by
implication Central Asian behind-closed-doors diplomacy towards China in the
face of mounting domestic pressure, has offered a...