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People's Republic of China former Vice-President Xi Jinping. Xi was elected as the new leader of the Communist Party of China along with the new Central Committee.

Book Review: Hidden Hand

The Chinese Communist Party’s global influence operations are undermining Western democratic institutions, as highlighted in the "Hidden Hand", writes John West. Read more...
China's Migrant Workers

Book Review: What’s holding China’s economy back?

The CCP’s discriminatory hukou system is a great obstacle to changing from world’s factory to a service-driven economy, writes John West.
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Kim Jong-un visiting Berlin.

Book Review: China–North Korea Relations: Between Development and Security

China’s developmental peace approach to North Korea reads like a soft carrot and stick approach, writes John West. Read more...
Hong Kong Protests, Victoria Park

The end of Hong Kong as we know it

Beijing is killing the goose that laid the golden egg, as it imposes its own national security law on Hong Kong, writes John West.
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COVID-19 !

China: Power, Payback and Statecraft

The Great Twenty-First Century Power ‘game’ is afoot, writes Julian Lindley-French.
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Chinese Covid 19 Lockdown Madness Day 1,000,000

Who will 'Win' COVID-19?

Whilst COVID-19 is not a war, it could well come to be seen as the pivotal battle in a much wider and longer strategic ‘war’ for strategic dominance writes Julian Lindley-French.
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Senior Executive Seminar 18-11

ANALYSIS COVID-19: The Silk Road Pandemic

The 2020 COVID-19 crisis will do much to shape international relations in the twenty-first century, and not for the better, writes Julian Lindley-French.
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Senior Executive Seminar 18-11

Chinese Europe: Belt, Road and Chains?

Europeans tempted by BRI must be under no illusions that over time the belt will gradually tighten and the road will begin to lead to political and strategic subjugation, writes Julian Lindley-French. Read more...
Senior Executive Seminar 18-11

5D Warfare and China's 5G Digital Silk Road

China’s Silk Road policy is an unashamed attempt to compete with the West and extend its influence writes Julian Lindley-French.                       Read more...
Xi Jinping

Haunted by Chaos: China’s Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping

By most accounts, China has behaved badly through the COVID-19 pandemic.  Fascinating insights can be derived about China’s present behaviour by looking into its past, writes John West.
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In the economic power struggle for Asia, Trump and Xi Jinping are switching policies

United States Strategic Approach to The People's Republic of China

America's strategic approach to China reads like a declaration of a new Cold War, writes John West.
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THE CORONAVIRUS AND CHINA

Why does Beijing lie about Covid-19?

To understand why Beijing is lying so much about COVID-19, you have to understand the corrupt deal China’s Communist Party has struck with the country’s elites, a Read more...
The Kindergarten

Xi Jinping’s China: The Backlash

Richard McGregor's book of less than one year ago, “Xi Jinping: The Backlash”, may have rapidly grown in relevance thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, writes John West. Read more...
COVID-19

Unravelling Covid-19

The Covid-19 crisis has struck a divided and fragile world, whose divisions will only be exacerbated by the crisis, writes John West.
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Grace

China must be held accountable

The Covid-19 crisis is the greatest disaster and blunder the world has seen since World War 2. China must be held accountable argues John West. Read more...
Official Visit of the Secretary-General

Time for China and the WHO to Fess Up

The Australian government’s proposal for an independent international enquiry on the COVID 19 crisis is a much-needed constructive initiative writes John West. Read more...
Shenzhen

The Shenzhen Experiment: a book review

John West reviews the Shenzhen Experiment by Juan Du.
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Peter Frankopan

The New Silk Roads: a book review

The New Silk Roads may well be a much more fragile region than author Peter Frankopan is willing to concede, writes John West.
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Coronavirus

Coronavirus highlights poverty of Asia's governance

The Chinese New Year is starting badly thanks to the Coronavirus, writes John West. Read more...
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