China
20.10.2013
Government shutdown and Chinese gold
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity”...William Butler Yeats, from his poem The Second…
18.10.2013
The US’ “Asia Pivot” and Containment of China
The US’ “Asia Pivot” policy, announced in June 2012, has since been heralded as a ‘new’ cold war in a…
11.10.2013
China and Russia’s Eurasian Plans. Part 2
We should add one more important dimension to the character of Chinese expansion in Central Asia. It began with and…
10.10.2013
Washington and Tokyo ramp up military preparations against China
Despite the break out of a U.S. budget crisis and Obama’s cancelled trip to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APECDahJTkfw Summit “to save public funds”, the White House has neither revised nor curtailed its military obsessions. Only the emphasis has changed: under the influence…
08.10.2013
China and Russia’s Eurasian Plans. Part 1
The Bishkek SCO (The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) summit has fully confirmed the viability of unions which tend to strengthen regionalism…
18.07.2013
Chinese Alternative
Today there are more publications related to the People's Republic of China and its achievements in particular. It is connected…
14.06.2013
China Aspires to Join the Leaders of the Middle East Peace Process
Beijing has taken stock of the visits to China by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
29.04.2013
The Senkakus — a New Chapter in the Saga of the Islands
The territorial conflict over the disputed islands of the Senkaku archipelago (called the Diaoyu Islands by China) in the East…
25.04.2013
Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and the Railway Projects
Washington is actively trying to take advantage of the transportation deadlock that Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan found themselves in after the…
15.01.2013
Problems Arising from China’s Development. Part 6
Some conclusions. I make no claim to cover China’s problems completely in this article. Nevertheless, the issues I discuss allow…
29.12.2012
Problems Arising from China’s Development. Part 4
Problems of political stability § 1. China’s chief domestic political stability problem is its ethnic heterogeneity. Unlike the European Union,…
05.12.2012
Problems Arising from China’s Development. Part 3
Military-strategic issues. China’s military-strategic objectives derive from the many needs of its foreign trade and the foreign policy issues that…
