Abstract How can a state with dysfunctional trade politics spur the negotiation of major free trade agreements (FTAs)? Using the case of Japan’s participation in…
Country or Region: China
Abstract In this interview, physicist and climate change blogger Joe Romm speaks with the Bulletin’s Dawn Stover about whether nuclear energy will be a major…
Abstract This paper analyses the growth trajectory of China and related structural change to assess China’s capacity to continue its rapid growth over the next…
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Abstract The Indian nuclear program is a response to a perceived politico-strategic threat from China as opposed to a military-operational one that New Delhi began…
Summary More than 630 million Chinese have escaped poverty since the 1980s, reducing the fraction remaining from 82 to 10 percent of the population. This…
Abstract This article investigates the variegated model of capitalism emerging in China through a comparative analysis of two contrasting local government approaches developed in Chongqing…
Abstract With several long-range ballistic missiles in development, the Indian nuclear posture is entering an important new phase. After nearly two decades of focusing on…
Abstract China is the only one of the five original nuclear weapon states that is quantitatively increasing the size of its nuclear arsenal and it…
Summary The centre of global economic activity is shifting rapidly towards Asia, driven by the economic dynamism of China, India and several other middle-income Asian…
Abstract This article analyzes India’s nuclear doctrine, finding it to be critically flawed and inimical to strategic stability in South Asia. In pursuing an ambitious…
Abstract The technology surrounding missiles that fly at five or more times the speed of sound is not mature, but several nations have tested hypersonic…
Abstract This paper argues that whilst the relationship between US consumerism and China’s low-wage production has underpinned China’s economic growth in recent years, policy-makers are…
Abstract The question of nuclear stability in South Asia is a subject of both academic and policy significance. It is the only region in the…
The global financial crisis of 2007-09, and the Great Recession that it engendered, were both a challenge and an opportunity for Asia. The region not…
Summary This collection documents the different ways in which Asian governments have been pursuing economic nationalism even as they have been integrating with the world…
