Tag: China

CHINA – China’s military modernisation (Joel Wuthnow, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/16/chinas-military-modernisation/

USA/CHINA – How 2020 Shaped U.S.-China Relations (Elizabeth C. Economy, Yanzhong Huang, Jerome A. Cohen, Adam Segal, and Julian Gewirtz, CFR)

This year, tensions between Washington and Beijing flared over many issues. As the Biden administration prepares to take over, what lies ahead for one...

CHINA/TECHNOLOGY – Whither China’s technology dream? (Andrew Kennedy, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/15/whither-chinas-technology-dream/

CHINA – How China is changing and what it means for its economy (East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/14/how-china-is-changing-and-what-it-means-for-its-economy/

CHINA – Domestic and global challenges of China’s economic transformation (David Dollar, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/13/domestic-and-global-challenges-of-chinas-economic-transformation/

PERSIAN GULF/CHINA – The Persian Gulf and China: The Growth and Limits of Economic Ties (Nader Habibi, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis...

China’s economic and diplomatic ties with each of the eight states that border the Persian Gulf rapidly expanded over the past two decades. This...

EUROPE/CHINA – European carmakers fuel Chinese innovation (Gregor Sebastian, MERICS)

European carmakers are shifting their R&D operations to China, making them willing partners in China’s efforts to become a manufacturing superpower and absorb the...

CHINA – China in 2021: agenda setting, anniversaries, and potential for conflict (MERICS)

Where does China stand at the end of 2020? China has emerged from the Covid-19 crisis stronger and more assertive. While countries worldwide are sliding...

EUROPE/CHINA – EU urges China to free detained reporters after Bloomberg employee held (Al Arabiya)

The Chinese flag. (Reuters) The European Union has urged China to release all journalists and citizens held in connection with their reporting, following the detention...

CHINA/MIGRANT WORKERS – Trade unionism and the welfare of rural-urban migrant workers in China (Alison Booth, Xin Meng, Jilu Zhang, VOXEU)

Rural-urban migrant workers in China often do not receive the same benefits at the workplace as their urban counterparts. This column uses a rich...

CHINA/FIVE YEAR PLAN – China’s bold new Five Year Plan (Yao Yang, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/13/chinas-bold-new-five-year-plan/

THAILAND/SPACE PROGRAM/CHINA – Thailand’s space program drifts out of China’s orbit (Hadrien T Saperstein, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/12/thailands-space-program-drifts-out-of-chinas-orbit/

CHINA/SOUTHERN AFRICA – China’s Southern Africa Debt Deals Reveal a Wider Plan (Alex Vines OBE, Chatham House)

Africa is experiencing its first continent-wide recession in 25 years due to the impact of the COVID-19, but many southern African states were already...

EUROPE/USA/CHINA/CLIMATE CLUB – Europe should promote a Climate Club after the US elections (Guntram B. Wolff, Bruegel)

Time has come for Europe, the US and possibly China to create a global “Climate Club”. https://www.bruegel.org/2020/12/europe-should-promote-a-climate-club-after-the-us-elections/

USA/CHINA – Recalibrating US–China relations (Craig Seidelson, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/10/recalibrating-us-china-relations/

CHINA/USA – Early Warning Brief: Beijing’s Blunt Message to President-elect Joe Biden (Willy Wo-Lap Lam, The Jamestown Foundation)

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has sent a polite but blunt message to the incoming administration of U.S. President-elect Joseph R. Biden, urging...