Sunday, 27 November 2016

China-Philippines: A Case for "New" Type of Relations?

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       Soon after the visit of President Duterte to Beijing, the Chinese moved with considerable dexterity to "allow" Filipino ...
Tuesday, 22 November 2016

Trump SinksTPP: Road Open for Chinese Domination?

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    It seems that the Chinese have had a very good day at the office. Not only has Trump scuttled the Trans Pacific Partnership [TPP], bu...
Friday, 18 November 2016

How Does China Evaluate Trump?

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    With the APEC summit due to take place in Lima shortly, most leaders of states on the Asia-Pacific rim are in the process of evaluati...
Monday, 14 November 2016

Trump and China: A Trade War on the Cards?

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     Every US Presidential election witnesses a high tide of anti- China rhetoric, mostly by right wing candidates. Trump was no exceptio...
Saturday, 12 November 2016

The Two Faces of China

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    Recently while reading the mainland China press, a startling picture of two very different Chinas emerges. The People's Daily [10...
Tuesday, 8 November 2016

Is the US Pivot to Asia on the Verge of Collapse?

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               On 3 rd November 2016, the People’s Daily in China crowed happily that “State Department Official Struggles with Fact...
Thursday, 3 November 2016

The Implications of President Xi Jinping as 'core' of leadership in China.

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      At the 18th Chinese Communist Party Congress in November 2012, Xi Jinping assumed formal power not only as China's President, bu...