Abstract This article reviews the literature on China’s twenty-first-century Maritime Silk Road initiative (MSRI) to highlight the narratives surrounding it, its central features, its potential…
Topic: Political Economy
Abstract China’s “One Belt, One Road” project is comprised of two components: the Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) and the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB)—that…
BRI signals a shift in China’s foreign policy and a departure from its long-held low-profile approach. Since Xi came to power in 2012, the Chinese…
Abstract The historical legacy of Japan-Myanmar relations provides an important rationale for the current economic cooperation. This underpins the perception that Japan is in…
Abstract China is approaching a series of turning points on its path of dramatic national transformation. After more than three decades of successful reforms, the…
Abstract Like other proposed mega-FTAs, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is intended to address twenty-first-century trade issues. The attributes of the RCEP negotiations are…
Abstract The rise of mega-regionalism in the Asia-Pacific has become a significant development for the region itself as well as the global trading system. Europe,…
Abstract There is the perception in Japan that a reforming Myanmar is Japan’s “final frontier” in Asia. Indeed, Japan is enthusiastically seeking a larger political…
Abstract The dynamics of institutional balancing is the predominant factor prompting East Asian countries to move to mega-FTAs. Rather than seeking mega-FTAs purely on the…
Abstract This article contends that South Korea’s behaviors toward China since 1992 can be fully understood when the structural variables of the strategic environment—i.e., economic…
Abstract Based on a review of automatic identification system data tracking approximately 70 vessels that entered DPRK ports between April 2016 and October 2016, current…
Abstract China’s approach to economic diplomacy has undergone significant changes in recent years, especially after the global financial crisis. Responding to China’s maturation as the…
Abstract Xi Jinping and China’s fifth-generation leadership have given law even greater pride of place in official rhetoric than their predecessors did. The October 2014…
Abstract This paper examines the policy challenges and dilemmas faced by China’s authorities in balancing exchange rate stability with the policy necessity of monetary autonomy.…
Summary There is a quiet drama playing out in American foreign policy far from the dark contours of upheaval in the Middle East and South…
