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China’s industry ministry has joined hands with China Development Bank – Beijing’s financing arm that bankrolls state-backed projects – to pump hundreds of billions of yuan...
Author: Sanam Vakil, Chatham House China–Iran relations have been the subject of much speculation after a draft of a 25-year partnership agreement was leaked in July...
Authors: Peter Drysdale and Shiro Armstrong, ANU For Australia to join the great decoupling from China that some Americans and Australian security officials demand would bring...
China is set to expand the testing of its new sovereign digital currency later this year or in early 2021, but analysts say the design of...
Author: Kai He, Griffith University Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist, claims that US President Donald Trump has put together a ‘war council’ to...
Author: David Lubin, Citigroup During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, the IMF and the World Bank were quick to trumpet their contribution to stabilising...
Authors: Yao-Yuan Yeh, University of St Thomas, Charles KS Wu, Purdue University, Austin Wang, UNLV, and Fang-Yu Chen, Michigan State University Observers of Taiwan’s foreign relations...
Chen Yunfeng, the chief of Yancang village in Henan province, has grown dismayed by the disadvantages that ageing rural peasants face in Chinese society.“We plant grains,...
Author: Editorial Board, ANU ‘Governments are terrible at picking winners, but losers are great at picking governments’. It’s an old gag, but the observation remains truer...