An Unsustainable Maritime Ambition
In terms of news reporting, China’s actions in the South China Sea are a novelty, and in…
China: Finance Without Banks?
An exchange of adjectives is probably triggering a much longer-term process. At the PCC’s Third Plenum last…
Impossible Isolationism
John Kerry just completed his trip in Asia after visiting Seoul, Beijing and Jakarta. US involvement has…
1989: The End?
Many of us believed that 1989 would be the start of a “new world.” After the Berlin…
A solid roof for Chinese investments
A 2010 study by Capgemini and Merryll Lynch noted that the number of Asian millionaires had surpassed those in…
Strange but natural and deadly alliances between the local and Chinese mafias
History has won an ironic rematch in the numbers game. Almost forty years ago when Mao died,…
Raw materials without a market?
Contrary to general entrepreneurial tendencies, Chinese and Russian state-owned enterprises are expanding their activities. In times of…
China vs. everyone for the islands?
So many interests collide in the northern Pacific that it’s difficult to untangle the different governments’ conspiracies. …
Vietnam caught between China and the US
In East Asia, the classic diplomatic proverb is often proven true: “our country doesn’t have friends or…
Integration in China
While China’s presence is so cumbersome, its emigration to the west has been analogously silent. The country…