Abstract: UNESCO’s ‘Memory of the World’ Programme promotes the preservation, universal access and public awareness of the world’s significant documents as the common heritage of…
Country or Region: China
Abstract: This article focuses on relations between China and India in South Asia, the two major powers’ ‘shared neighborhood’. Assessing the objectives underlying Beijing’s interest…
Abstract: This article examines the conditions under which great powers succeed or fail to shape a cooperative security agenda in their shared neighbourhoods. It compares…
Abstract: China’s ambitious global infrastructure investment plan, embodied in the Belt and Road Initiative and backed by massive financial resources, is an attempt to secure…
Abstract: This paper explores the origin of China’s recent credit and asset boom by comparing it with the Japanese bubble economy in the late 1980s…
Abstract: The massive overseas expansion of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) is a central aspect of China’s ‘rise’ to great-power status. There is significant disagreement, however,…
Abstract: Rising economies face a crucial dilemma when establishing their position on international patent law. Should they translate their increasing economic strength into political power…
Abstract: An ambitious plan for nuclear development exists for long in China. The study of scenarios with prospect of 150 GWe to 400 GWe in…
Abstract Learning from Fukushima began as a project to respond in a helpful way to the March 2011 triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown)…
Abstract The Nuclear Notebook is researched and written by Hans M. Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project with the Federation of American Scientists, and…
Abstract Despite China’s traditional role as a continental power, modern Chinese leaders are pursuing a grand strategy that includes the explicit goal of becoming a…
Preview The nuclear danger posed by North Korea is not new. But since the arrival of Donald Trump in the White House, a bad situation…
Abstract The ‘21st Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative’ indicates China’s intention to create a peaceful and harmonious environment, for cooperating with other States. Naval craft,…
Abstract China’s purported fears about the introduction of defensive missiles into South Korea are likely insincere or misplaced, leaving concerns about the beneficial effects on…
Abstract The political, economic, and financial aspects of sustaining an oil blockade against China mean that even a militarily successful blockader could find its political,…
