Author: Shin Kawashima, University of Tokyo At a Japan–China summit on 17 November 2022, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese President Xi Jinping met face-to-face...
Vietnam has accelerated its island building in the South China Sea where China has fully militarized three of its artificial islands, with Hanoi reclaiming about 80%...
Mainland’s China’s customs authority has rejected 2,409 applications to import food and beverages from Taiwan since October last year, with prized hard liquor label Kinmen Kaoliang...
Author: Guy Burton, Brussels School of Governance In December 2021, United States intelligence claimed China was helping Saudi Arabia develop ballistic missiles. Washington feared the Saudis...
Journalists working in China’s tightly controlled media industry are mourning the loss of a leading news and investigative editor who is believed to have taken his...
Authors: Francesca Frassineti, University of Bologna, Edward Howell, University of Oxford and Ria Roy, University of Cambridge After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, North Korea capitalised upon...
IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva says China is being held back by Covid-19 lockdowns and challenges in the real estate sector, while it has a leading...
U.S. ally Canada has launched its own Indo-Pacific strategy “to advance Canada’s regional peace and security interests” as a Pacific nation, with indications of a tougher...
Authors: Samuel Hardwick and Adam Triggs In 2018, the United States put Russian aluminium giant Rusal on a blacklist to turn the screws on influential oligarchs....