China and Latin America: Connected and Competing
By Kayla Chen & Xiangming Chen
The Global Rise of China
The rise of China has stolen more headlines than any other global issue these days,...
Mega Wind and Solar Clean Energy Bases: A Stepping Stone to China’s Double-carbon Pledge
By Xing Zhang
At the UN General Assembly in September 2020, China’s President Xi Jinping announced China’s ambition to peak its carbon dioxide emissions before...
Trump’s Great Game: Playing Russia Against China
By Dan Steinbock
Trump has pledged to reset the White House policies on “America First” basis. In Asia, it may mean an effort to balance...
Is military conflict over Taiwan inevitable or is China masking its true economic agenda?
By Andre Wheeler
With much focus on the developments in the increasingly strategic geo-political Indo-Pacific region, current analysis in the West has shifted to the...
The Social Theory of Contemporary Capitalism
By Partha Chatterjee
The sociology of capitalism developed by Max Weber and its critique developed by Marxists are unable to account for the transformed structure...
China Down: The Weight of the Past on China’s Struggle for Development
By Richard Westra
Dr. Richard Westra historically contextualises China’s 21st century meteoric growth in terms of its post World War II socialist development and the...
Business As Usual
From the Editors
In January 2017 a new president will be sworn in who will continue with President Obama’s South East Asia pivot policy with...
Trumping World Trade
By Dan Steinbock
After the inauguration, President Trump has begun to reset the White House trade policies. But the consequences of “America First” stance in...
How Finance is Shaping the Economies of China, Japan, and Korea
By Yung Chul Park, Hugh Patrick, and Larry Meissner
In what ways, and to what degree, has the financial system mattered, and what roles has...
The Internet in China: How the Network is Shaping the PRC’s Economic and Social...
By Eric Harwit
Chinese e-commerce and communications companies are playing leading roles in the nation’s continued Internet development. These corporations are expanding their roles in...
