Abstract This paper explores China’s responses to mega-regional negotiations, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. By examining Chinese elite discourse, the…
Topic: Political Economy
Abstract This paper contends that nationalism has always been a constant feature of Chinese politics. Indeed in order to understand the implications of China’s nationalism…
Abstract High stakes are involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations: the United States seems to be on the verge of redirecting Asian regionalism…
Abstract Cooperation between the USA and China serves as the lynch pin for the creation of an effective international climate regime. Recent US–China relations on…
Abstract The article attempts to examine the emerging balance-of-power system in Northeast Asia (NEA) that is replacing the USA’s hegemony. A multipolar balance of power…
Abstract This paper sheds light on the Chinese government’s recent efforts to internationalize the Renminbi (RMB). China’s standing as the world’s second largest economy and…
Abstract Asia–Pacific regionalism is quite different from its counterparts in other regions of the world. Most notably, it displays an extremely low level of institutionalization…
Abstract The international order in East Asia has been anchored on four pillars. The first pillar is the 1952 San Francisco peace treaty between the…
Abstract Although the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) has made significant progress providing confidence-building mechanisms, it remains inconsistent in moving towards a shared goal of collective…
Abstract In June 2010, the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan signed the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), a preferential trade agreement, which is arguably…
Abstract If Xi’s project fails, we can expect an economic and geopolitical Chinese withdrawal, extremely dangerous for both China and the world. Against an international…
Abstract The rise of China and its bigger implications within the international system raise the questions of Beijing’s vision of multipolarity. Alongside its growing economic…
Abstract This study aims to analyze the possibility of a multilateral Northeast Asian free-trade agreement (FTA), a China–Japan–Korea FTA (CJK FTA), and estimates the optimal…
Abstract The Asian Financial Crisis in 1997–1998 and the mishandling of the crisis by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the United States catalyzed the…
Abstract In the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis, monetary regionalism has been widely advocated as a means to shelter East Asia from not only…
