Abstract China has made contradictory claims about its attitude toward the existing international order. Is China a “responsible stakeholder” in the existing international regimes? Or…
Country or Region: China
Abstract China’s outward direct investment (ODI) has grown rapidly since 2004. But along with such phenomenal growth is a mixed feeling toward Chinese investments in…
Summary This book analyses the strategic dimensions of energy security, particularly where energy resources have become the object of military competition. The volume explores the…
Abstract China’s economic strategy is facing new challenges arising from the changes in the world economy as well as in its domestic conditions. Given the…
Abstract After decades of low-level commercial interaction, China and Latin America significantly ramped up their economic relationship in the 2000s. China has jumped to first…
Summary The world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion—a crisis that encompasses shortages of oil and coal, copper and cobalt, water and arable…
Abstract By estimating China’s foreign aid as a proxy for China’s bilateral Official Development Assistance and by analyzing its implementation structure and policy, this paper…
Abstract The People’s Bank of China’s (PBoC) balance sheet expanded more dramatically than any of its major international counterparts during the past decade. The main…
Abstract This paper analyses and assesses China’s current fiscal system, including its basic institutional arrangements, the relationship between central and local governments, and the fiscal…
Abstract Current China–Africa relations have been statically framed: China invests in the continent and exports resources extracted by its state-owned enterprises and fuelled by…
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Abstract China’ economic boom has produced a surging appetite for fossil fuels, particularly oil. To foster and sustain its economic development, China has taken…
Abstract The tendency for rising powers to seek control of resource markets is being repeated in Southern Africa, where rising powers led by China…
Summary Law of the Sea in East Asia selects the most prominent maritime legal issues that have emerged since the post-LOS Convention era for a…
Summary Being one of the largest coastal States in the world, China’s marine legal system is significant in the overall development of the international law…
Summary Research on The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is a valuable addition to understanding the political situation in the…
