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September 2024, Volume 16, Issue 03
- 7-20 Japan’s Altered Defence Roadmap in a New Era
by Purnendra JAIN - 21-34 Japan’s Security Cooperation with ASEAN
by Tomotaka SHOJI - 35-52 It Takes Two to Tango, But More for Poco-Poco
by Shofwan Al Banna CHOIRUZZAD - 53-68 Revisiting the Look East Policy
by Nur Shahadah JAMIL - 69-83 The Outlook for Taiwan’s New President, Lai Ching-te
by John F COPPER - 84-99 China’s Thriving Middle East Engagement Challenges US Dominance
by Zhiqun ZHU - 100-114 Emerging Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in Brunei
by Chang-Yau HOON & Kaili ZHAO - 115-125 India’s Diplomacy in Integrating Regional Infrastructure and Its Implication for China
by Lin WU
June 2024, Volume 16, Issue 02
- 7-19 North Korea’s Nuclear Advancement and Its Increasing Impact on International Security
by Sung Chull KIM - 20-33 South Korea Navigating 2023 amid Inter-Korean Tensions and Domestic Political Challenges
by Yongwook RYU - 34-49 A Blast from the Past: Shaping the Moscow–Beijing–Pyongyang Axis in 2023
by Andrey KOVSH - 50-67 Navigating Strategic Waters: The Japan–New Zealand Partnership in the South Pacific
by Tadashi IWAMI & Rouben AZIZIAN - 68-81 China’s Strategy of Political Warfare in Sri Lanka
by Asanga ABEYAGOONASEKERA - 82-95 Pakistan–China Relations in the 21st Century: Bandwagoning or Complex Interdependence?
by Inayat KALIM & Asad HYATT & Sohail AHMAD - 96-109 Strengthening International Cooperation on Blue Carbon under the Green Silk Road Initiative: China’s Practical Pathways
by Sheng WANG - 110-134 Democracy with Chinese Characteristics: Historical and Political Transformations
by Mitchell GALLAGHER
March 2024, Volume 16, Issue 01
- v:16:y:2024:i:01:n:s1793930524000084 Evolution of the Lao PDR’s External Debt since Its Reform and Opening Up
by Chunmeng ZOU & Xuemei FENG - v:16:y:2024:i:01:n:s1793930524000035 Building the Road Ahead
by Wendy LEUTERT - v:16:y:2024:i:01:n:s1793930524000047 Evaluating the Benefits of the Current BRI Infrastructure Projects to Thailand
by Sivarin LERTPUSIT - v:16:y:2024:i:01:n:s1793930524000023 China’s Digital Silk Road
by Erik BAARK - v:16:y:2024:i:01:n:s1793930524000059 All Aboard the East Coast Rail
by Kassim QARREM - v:16:y:2024:i:01:n:s1793930524000011 The Belt and Road Initiative and Regional Infrastructure Finance and Construction
by Justin Yifu LIN & Yan WANG - v:16:y:2024:i:01:n:s1793930524000060 China–Pakistan Economic Corridor
by Minwang LIN - v:16:y:2024:i:01:n:s1793930524000072 The Politics of Australian Responses to the Belt and Road Initiative
by Baogang HE & Geoffrey STOKES & David HUNDT
December 2023, Volume 15, Issue 04
- 7-21 Initiative Diplomacy: China’s New Rules for Global Governance, Security and Development
by Paul HAENLE & Nathaniel SHER - 22-37 Mapping the Scope of China’s Soft Power in Estonia
by Agnieszka NITZA-MAKOWSKA & Kikee Doma BHUTIA & Urmas HÕBEPAPPEL & Lelde LUIK & Anastasia SINITSYNA & Elo SÜLD - 38-60 Climate Investment in China and the United States: Political, Monetary and Technological Drivers
by Richard YARROW & Gang CHEN - 61-77 Zero-COVID Policy in China: Epidemic Control and the Mode of Politics
by Hongyi LAI - 78-94 Japanese Peacebuilding Diplomacy in Southeast Asia and Beyond in the New World Order
by Miyoko TANIGUCHI - 95-115 The Marcos Administration’s Foreign Policy towards the Great Powers: Seeking the Elusive Balance in Dealing a Changing Indo-Pacific Region
by Renato Cruz DE CASTRO - 116-132 The Rise, Fall and (Potential) Rise Again of East Asian Middle Powers
by Brendan M HOWE - 133-151 Hong Kong–Taiwan Relations from the Handover to the Anti-extradition Law Movement—How Sub-state Diplomacy Has Failed
by Adrian Chi-yeung CHIU & Kam-yee LAW
September 2023, Volume 15, Issue 03
- 7-19 Ten Years into the Belt and Road Initiative in Malaysia: Shift, Continuity and Way Forward
by Nur Shahadah JAMIL - 20-33 That Ship Has Sailed: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the Marcos Administration
by Charmaine MISALUCHA-WILLOUGHBY & Elaine TOLENTINO - 34-48 Challenges to Thailand’s Negotiating Strategy in the Thai–China High-Speed Railway Project
by Sivarin LERTPUSIT & Pittaya SUVAKANTA - 49-81 The Development of China’s Digital Economy and its Implications for China-ASEAN Cooperation
by Bo CHEN & Hui CHEN & Qingjun CHENG & Yao LI - 82-97 China-Pacific Islands Economic Relations under the Belt and Road
by Denghua ZHANG - 98-114 The United States, China and the Gulf Arab States in the Era of Great Power Competition
by John CALABRESE - 115-127 Extending the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to Afghanistan: Progress and Prospect
by Jie ZHANG - 128-143 Indo-Pacific Economic Framework: Biden’s New Institutional Instrument in the Asia-Pacific Region
by Wei LI
June 2023, Volume 15, Issue 02
- 7-21 Analysis of Taiwan’s Strategy against China’s Grey Zone Activities in the South China Sea
by William Chih-tung CHUNG - 22-43 Taiwan’s Southbound Drive towards Southeast Asia
by Bo-jiun JING - 44-62 Expanding Governance Capabilities
by Yu-Jen TING & Hsini HUANG & Tze-Luen LIN & Wen-Hsi CHANG - 63-76 Taiwan’s November 2022 Mid-term Election
by John F COPPER - 77-88 China’s Pro-Russian Neutrality Position in the Ukraine Crisis as Part of Its “Hybrid†Confrontation with the West
by Vitaly KOZYREV - 89-103 Understanding Hong Kong’s Failure in Zero-COVID strategy
by Wing-hung MOK & Franky Ka-hin CHOI & Gabriel Hoi-huen CHAN & Chi-leung LIU - 104-122 Sino–American Relations in the Trump Era
by Ali FATTAH - 123-137 China’s Digital Silk Road
by Chien-peng CHUNG - 138-138 Errata: "Stability in the Taiwan Strait after the 20th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party"
by David ARASE
January 2023, Volume 15, Issue 01
- 7-21 South Korea in 2022: Aspiring to Become a Global Pivotal State?
by Yongwook RYU - 22-35 North Korea’s Nuclear Armament: Assessment of 2022 and Outlook of 2023
by Sung Chull KIM - 36-46 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company: A Key Chip in the Global Political Economy
by Min-Hua CHIANG - 47-59 Japanese Semiconductor Industry’s Collaboration with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
by Tai Wei LIM - 60-73 China’s Belt and Road Initiative: The Economic Footprints in the Middle East vs. Geopolitical Dimensions with the United States
by Gordon C K CHEUNG - 74-89 China’s Space Policy: An Australian Perspective
by Malcolm DAVIS - 90-105 The Impact of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine on East Asia
by Samir PURI - 106-122 Japan and Australia: Strengthening Partnership in the Indo-Pacific Era
by Purnendra JAIN
October 2022, Volume 14, Issue 04
- 5-20 How Can the Indo-Pacific Structure Keep the United States Engaged and China Compliant?: Japan’s Geoeconomic Challenges with the CPTPP and IPEF
by Saori N KATADA - 21-41 How Great Power Rivalry Shapes ASEAN-centric Multilateralism: Evolution and Prospects
by Takeshi YUZAWA - 42-55 IPEF and the Reconfiguration of the East Asian Economic Order
by Don MOON - 56-70 A Comparative Analysis of the Biden Administration’s Indo-Pacific Strategy vs. the Trump Administration’s
by Paul HAENLE - 71-90 Changes and Continuities in South Korea’s Major Foreign and Security Policies under the Yoon Suk-yeol Administration
by Hahnkyu PARK - 91-106 The South Pacific: A New Arena for Strategic Competition among the Major Powers
by Thomas WILKINS - 107-127 Stability in the Taiwan Strait after the 20th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
by David ARASE - 128-142 An Analysis of the Guidelines of China’s Unified Market
by Le XU
July 2022, Volume 14, Issue 03
- 5-16 China’s Evolving Perspectives on the Quad
by Minwang LIN - 17-30 India and the Quad
by Premesha SAHA - 31-42 Japan’s National Security Policy and Regional Affairs
by Benjamin SELF - 43-57 Japan’s Significance for the United Kingdom’s Shaping Ambitions in the Indo-Pacific
by Yee-Kuang HENG - 58-71 Philippine-US Alliance in Transition: Towards Polycentric Relations?
by Carmina Yu UNTALAN - 72-85 Xi Jinping’s Dominance in China’s Foreign Policy
by Hao LI-OGAWA - 86-101 The Reshaping of China-India Relations
by Chunhao LOU & Chong WANG - 102-116 Lessons of the Ukraine Crisis for Canada’s Relations with China
by Shaun NARINE
April 2022, Volume 14, Issue 02
- 5-21 Taiwan’s Party Politics
by John F COPPER - 22-37 China’s Religious United Front and its Passive Resistance in Taiwan
by Feng-Yi CHU - 38-55 Taiwan Addresses Climate Change
by Fangting CHENG - 56-74 Taiwan in APEC
by Yeh-chung LU - 75-92 Strategising Taiwan’s New Southbound Policy
by Alan Hao YANG - 93-108 Australia–China Relations at 50
by Jingdong YUAN - 109-123 Navigating Troubled Waters
by Gabriele ABBONDANZA - 124-136 China’s New Digital Infrastructure
by Erik BAARK
January 2022, Volume 14, Issue 01
- 5-19 The Biden Administration’s Indo-Pacific Strategy: Continuities, Adjustments and Domestic Dimensions
by Satu LIMAYE - 20-38 Quad 3.0: Japan, Indo-Pacific and Minilateralism
by Kei KOGA - 39-55 Australia and the Quad
by David WALTON - 56-70 India’s Changing Approach to the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue
by Purnendra JAIN - 71-84 Middle or Muddle: Whither Post-Abe Japan?
by Haruko SATOH - 85-97 China’s Afghanistan Policy in a Post-US Era
by Li LI - 98-110 Unravelling the Knot: The Chinese Engagement in Afghanistan
by Haiqi ZHENG - 111-123 China’s Policies and Challenges in the Taliban’s Afghanistan
by Jin WANG
October 2021, Volume 13, Issue 04
- 5-18 China’s Soft Power in Pakistan: The Representation of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor in Local Newspapers
by Zahid Shahab AHMED & Ahsan HANIF & Baogang HE - 19-32 China’s Energy Financing in Southeast Asia: Examining Its Public Goods Approach
by Xue GONG - 33-45 The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership in the Asia-Pacific Cooperation Process
by Yanjun GUO - 46-59 China’s Approach to South Asia
by Antara Ghosal SINGH - 60-77 Streamlining Non-tariff Measures for Agri-food Trade in ASEAN
by Sithanonxay SUVANNAPHAKDY - 78-91 Japan–Indonesia Economic Cooperation: An Overview
by SENIWATI & Munif Arif RANTI & Oktaviano Nandito GUNTUR & Ibnu Aly BADIU - 92-106 The World of Uncertainty: Is America Losing Its Leverage Towards a Looming New China–Russia Alliance?
by Vitaly KOZYREV - 107-121 Hong Kong Special Administrative Region after the National Security Legislation: Prospects and Challenges
by Victor TEO
July 2021, Volume 13, Issue 03
- 5-18 Malaysia’s Dilemmatic South China Sea Policy under Muhyiddin Yassin
by Nur Shahadah JAMIL - 19-36 Challenging China’s Maritime Expansion in the South China Sea from the Aquino to the Duterte Administrations
by Renato Cruz DE CASTRO - 37-56 Balance of Risks: Vietnam’s South China Sea Strategy
by Thanh Hai DO - 57-70 Lost Chances for Emotional Reconciliation between China and Japan
by Rumi AOYAMA - 71-83 Japan-Southeast Asia Relations Amid US-China Competition in East Asia
by Bhubhindar SINGH - 84-100 Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific Vision under Suga: Transition and Future Challenges in Southeast Asia
by Kei KOGA - 101-116 The Biden Administration’s China and Taiwan Policies: Connecting the Dots
by John F COPPER - 117-131 South Korea–Russia Rapprochement
by Ka-ho WONG & Kam-yee LAW
April 2021, Volume 13, Issue 02
- 5-18 China–India Rivalry: The Saga of Game Changers
by P S Suryanarayana - 19-35 Sino–Indian Conflict: Foreign Policy Options for the Smaller South Asian States
by Chulanee ATTANAYAKE - 36-48 Battling over Social Media: Public Protest and State Responses to Dr Li Wenliang’s Death in China
by Hongyi LAI - 49-66 South Korea’s Strategic Options amid the US–China Strategic Competition Under the Biden Administration
by Hahnkyu PARK & Chun Hee YANG - 67-79 China–US Rapidly Changing Dynamics and Small States: A View from Singapore
by Liang Fook LYE - 80-92 Overcoming the “Trump Trap”: How Thucydides Can Be Better Applied to US Policy on China
by Leif-Eric EASLEY - 93-107 Back to Strategic Competition? Assessing Japan’s Emerging China Policy under the Suga Administration
by Ji MIAO - 108-123 Australia and China: Souring Relations with Little Chance of a Reset on the Horizon
by David WALTON
January 2021, Volume 13, Issue 01
- 5-18 China’s Carbon Neutrality Policy: Objectives, Impacts and Paths
by Liang DONG & Gaoyi MIAO & Weigang WEN - 19-32 Japan’s Policy on Net Carbon Neutrality by 2050
by Hiroshi OHTA - 33-46 South Korea’s 2050 Carbon Neutrality Policy
by Hyungna OH & Inkee HONG & Ilyoung OH - 47-64 EU–China Relations at a Crossroads: Decoupling or a European “Sinatra Doctrine”?
by Frank UMBACH - 65-79 China, Japan and India: Asia’s Tangled Triangle in a Disrupted World
by Purnendra JAIN - 80-93 China–Japan Economic Cooperation with ASEAN: Keohane’s International Regime Theory
by Ahmad RAMEZANI & Yahya KAMALI - 94-107 Japan’s Peacebuilding under the Abe Administration: Change and Continuity, 2012–2020
by Yuji UESUGI & Kazushige KOBAYASHI & Tomoaki HONDA - 108-118 South Korea: Emerging Stronger from COVID-19
by Yongwook RYU
October 2020, Volume 12, Issue 04
- 5-18 Analysing the Perceptions, Key Issues and Challenges of Japan’s New Defence White Paper 2020
by Eiichi KATAHARA - 19-33 Okinawa Beyond the Hub-and-spoke Alliance System: A Reappraisal
by Carmina Yu UNTALAN - 34-46 Emerging Challenges of Japan’s Cooperative Approach to China
by Naoko ETO - 47-56 Japan’s Practice of Modern Monetary Theory amid the Pandemic Recession
by Yuqing XING - 57-72 Understanding ASEAN as a Relational Community: A Study Focused on Political-security Aspects
by Zhili HAN - 73-89 Italy and China: Much Ado about an MoU
by Giulio PUGLIESE - 90-101 China–Middle East Relations: New Developments, New Challenges
by Zhiqun ZHU - 102-110 China’s Rail Infrastructure On Track to Go Global
by Walker DARKE
July 2020, Volume 12, Issue 03
- 5-18 Rather Than COVID-19, is the US-China Trade War the Real Threat to Global Supply Chains?
by Troy STANGARONE - 19-32 Impact of COVID-19 on ASEAN-China Cooperation and Its Prospects
by Yue YANG & Fujian LI - 33-48 The Evolving Role of the Military in China’s COVID-19 Response
by Nan LI - 49-62 South Korea’s 2020 Election Amid COVID-19
by Sung Chull KIM - 63-79 Hong Kong’s COVID-19 Politics Amid Deteriorating China-US Relations
by Victor TEO - 80-91 Time to Forgive and Learn: A Better Future for South Korea and Japan
by Chun Hee YANG & Hahnkyu PARK - 92-103 Japan and Korea: A Fragile Relationship
by Haruko SATOH - 104-115 Strange Bedfellows: Beijing and Taipei’s South China Sea Policies
by John F COPPER
April 2020, Volume 12, Issue 02
- 5-14 The Chinese Communist Party and Politics 2019/2020
by Gang CHEN - 15-28 Chinese Foreign Policy in 2019: Coping with Hard Times
by Lance L P GORE - 29-44 Hong Kong’s Tumultuous Year: The Challenges of Democratisation and Localist Nationalism to China’s “One Country, Two System” Principle
by Victor TEO - 45-56 Taiwan’s 2020 Presidential, Vice Presidential and Legislative Election: Testing Election Theories
by John F COPPER - 57-67 South Korea in 2019: Unfulfilled Ambitions, Debilitating Troubles
by Yongwook RYU - 68-79 North Korea 2019–2020
by Sung Chull KIM - 80-92 Techno-nationalism in China–US Relations: Implications for Universities
by Paul EVANS - 93-105 South Korea’s China Policy
by Jaewoo CHOO - 106-117 Turkey and China: Contemporary Political, Economic and Strategic Relations
by Colin DUERKOP
January 2020, Volume 12, Issue 01
- 5-18 Chinese Economy in 2019: Structural Reforms and Firms’ Behaviour amid Growing Uncertainties
by Jiwei QIAN - 19-31 China’s Economy on a Rocky Trajectory
by Yao LI & Sarah Y TONG - 32-44 Chinese Society in 2019: Navigating Another Bumpy Year
by Litao ZHAO - 45-58 A Stable Chinese Society in 2019: Under Tightening Control
by Juan CHEN & Wei SHAN - 59-71 Hong Kong’s Economy Navigating Turbulent Times
by Chen LI - 72-82 Taiwan’s Economy in 2019: Reaping Benefits from the US–China Trade War
by Min-Hua CHIANG - 83-94 South Korea’s Economy in 2019/20: Slow Recovery, Growing Social Expenditure and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
by Tomoo KIKUCHI & Seung-Hwan JEONG & Gun-Woo LEE - 95-109 Global Value Chains and the Innovation of the Chinese Mobile Phone Industry
by Yuqing XING - 110-124 Housing Policies in Hong Kong
by Tai Wei LIM
October 2019, Volume 11, Issue 04
- 5-18 Domestic Sources of the US Trade War with China
by Troy STANGARONE - 19-27 Uncertain Times: The Reconstruction of China–US Relationship
by Weixing CHEN - 28-36 Mamallapuram Summit Held in Uncertainties: India’s and China’s Continuing Efforts to Pluck Low-Hanging Fruit
by Renjie FENG & Dingkun LEI - 37-45 China–Israel Relations: Past, Present and Prospect
by Zhiqun ZHU - 46-59 Market-based Climate Policy in China? The Case of Emissions Trading Systems
by Erik BAARK - 60-73 Birth Control to Birth Promotion? China’s Population Policy at a Crossroads
by Min ZHANG - 74-87 Accounting for the Recent Uptick in US–Taiwan Relations
by John F COPPER - 88-97 American Public Opinion and Cross-strait Relations
by Shaohua HU - 98-107 Do Japanese Economic Puzzles Validate Modern Monetary Theory?
by Yuqing XING
July 2019, Volume 11, Issue 03
- 5-13 East Asian Regionalism: A New Momentum for Multilateralism?
by Don MOON - 14-24 Game of Patience: Is Complete Denuclearisation of North Korea Possible?
by Chun Hee YANG & Hahnkyu PARK - 25-38 China’s Core Interests and Critical Role in North Korea’s Denuclearisation
by Jingdong YUAN - 39-49 South Korea-Japan Relations in the 2010s: Ambivalent Strategic and Economic Partners?
by Yanghyeon JO & Peng Er LAM - 50-58 Southeast Asia’s Roles in Inter-Korean Affairs
by Erik MOBRAND & Hyejin KIM - 59-67 Smart City Seoul
by Yu-Min JOO - 68-81 Japan’s Deflation, Monetary Policy and Issues Ahead
by Gene PARK - 82-95 Donald Trump’s Asia Policy
by Lowell DITTMER - 96-106 Chinese Communist Party’s Grass-roots Organisations in Enterprises since the 1990s: Changes and Challenges
by Yao LI - 107-119 Legal Treatment of Foreign Drug Offenders Who Face Capital Punishment in China
by Bin LIANG
April 2019, Volume 11, Issue 02
- 5-12 China’s Indigenous Innovation Policies
by Erik BAARK - 13-23 China’s Economic Relations with Japan, South Korea and Taiwan Sustained by Persistent Technological Gaps
by Min-Hua CHIANG - 24-33 Technology as a Battleground: US Demands, China’s Responses
by Litao ZHAO & Xiangru YIN - 34-45 China’s E-commerce Development and Its Implication
by Tuan Yuen KONG - 46-60 The Financialisation of the State Sector in China
by Barry NAUGHTON - 61-76 China’s Rising Financial Risks and Liquidity Problems
by Yao LI - 77-86 China’s Approaches to the South China Sea Code of Conduct Negotiation
by Feng ZHANG - 87-94 Japan’s Foreign Talent Policy
by Tai Wei LIM - 95-103 Major Security Challenges to China’s Belt and Road Initiative
by Nan LI - 104-116 Mixed Ownership Reforms of China’s State-owned Enterprises
by Sarah Y TONG & Xiangru YIN
January 2019, Volume 11, Issue 01
- 5-13 Constitutional Amendments and Party Power Centralisation in China
by Gang CHEN - 14-32 Chinese Economy 2018: Transforming Economic Structures and Stabilising Growth
by Jiwei QIAN - 33-43 Chinese Society 2018: Stabilising Development Amid Uncertainties
by Litao ZHAO - 44-58 A Watershed Year: Chinese Foreign Policy in 2018
by Lance L P GORE - 59-66 Hong Kong in 2018: Relative Calm and Getting Down to Work
by Tai Wei LIM - 67-79 Hong Kong’s Economy Treading on Slippery Ground
by Yang ZHANG & Sarah Y TONG - 80-89 Taiwan’s Politics 2018: The Dilemma of the Movement Government
by Dongtao QI - 90-99 Japan in 2018: Abe Administration Surviving Scandals, Consolidating Power
by Peng Er LAM - 100-110 South Korea’s Politics 2018: Unpredictable External Relations and a Slowing Economy
by Jaewoo CHOO - 111-120 South Korea’s Economy 2018: Setbacks of Moon Jae-In’s Reform
by Min-Hua CHIANG - 121-132 North Korea in 2018: Nuclear Charm Offensives
by Jingdong YUAN
October 2018, Volume 10, Issue 04
- 5-23 China—US Trade War: A Modern Version of the Thucydides Trap
by Yuqing XING - 24-36 The Emerging Significance of Indo-Pacific: Japan, China, US and the Regional Power Shift
by Purnendra JAIN - 37-48 Developing North Korea’s Economy amid Uncertain Geopolitical Situation
by Min-Hua CHIANG - 49-59 Structural Changes in Chinese Economy: Progress and Challenges
by Yanrui WU