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"Red Flag: Waking up to China's Challenge"

Peter Hartcher's Quarterly Essay provides an excellent, informative and insightful analysis of the challenges Australia faces in managing its deepening relationship with China writes John West. Read more...
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The Hong Kong Uprising and the consequences in Taiwan

Stefano Pelaggi analyses the conflict in the former British colony of Hong Kong, the challenge to China's national identity and the final loss of a Beijing projection in Taiwan. Read more...
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China, a low-productivity superpower

China is a low-productivity superpower which must be balanced, argues John West.
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China's precarious economic future

Dinny McMahon provides an excellent forensic investigation of the Chinese economy in his book "China's Great Wall of Debt", writes John West. Read more...
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China's Third Revolution

Elizabeth Economy’s recent book, “The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State”, carefully documents the dramatic changes underway under President Xi, writes John West. Read more...
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Why Xi's China is in Jeopardy

George Magnus's recent book "Red Flags: Why Xi's China is in Jeopardy" highlights four "traps" which put the Chinese economy in jeopardy, writes John West. Read more...
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Book review: Three Decades of Cooperation between the Asian Development Bank and China

The Lowy Institute just published John West's review of "Partnership Transformed: Three Decades of Cooperation between Asian Development Bank and the People's Republic of China" by Robert Wihtol. Read more...
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How Asia goes to war

John West reviews "The Four Flash Points : how Asia goes to war", by Professor Brendan Taylor. Read more...
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Trust in Ratings: China’s Social Credit System

China has launched its "social credit system," hoping to increase social trust. What will it mean for China, and indeed, the world, asks Séverine Arsène ? Read more...
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Decolonizing Hong Kong

Hong Kong's government elite needs to be "decolonized" to correct wrong concepts and thinking, and misguided attitudes and values, left over from colonial rule, writes Wing Yin Yu. Read more...
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Blunting China’s sharp power

Democracy Digest has an excellent article on blunting China’s sharp power. Read more...
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Can America Bounce Back in Asia?

America's geopolitical predominance in Asia has been waning, especially under the US presidency of Donald Trump. Looking further ahead, it is not obvious that this "new normal" will be sustained. Read more...
John West, Adjunct Professor, Sophia University, Tokyo; Contributing Editor, FDI-Intelligence (a Financial Times magazine); Executive Director, Asian Century Institute and Dr. Satu Limaye (Discussant), Director, East-West Center in Washington

China and Global Value Chains

In their new book, “China and Global Value Chains”, Yutao Sun and Seamus Grimes provide a forensic analysis of China’s participation in Global Value Chains, writes John West. Read more...
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China's soft power ascendancy

China is stepping into a soft power vacuum as the US retreats under Trump, Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada. Read more...
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China’s soft power struggles

China could increase its soft power impact, but openness, transparency, and tolerance of debate present significant hurdles, Asit K Biswas and Kris Hartley write. Read more...
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Toward a green, but robust, economy in China

China must take its environmental problems head-on, otherwise the economic, social and health costs will become prohibitive in the coming years, argue Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada. Read more...
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Apple's global value chains in Asia

Seamus Grimes explains the intricacies of Apple's global value chains in Asia, something which even Donald Trump will not be able to change. Read more...
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Global value chains and the US missing exports

The US trade deficit is overstated due to the failure of trade statistics to capture flows of intellectual property embedded in exports. Yuqing Xing calls for trade statistics to be reformed. Read more...
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China’s groundwater crisis

Tackling China’s groundwater depletion and the growing crisis of water scarcity amidst rapid urbanisation will require political will and creative policy thinking, Asit K Biswas and Kris Hartley write Read more...
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North Korean imbroglio

North Korea and the US are locked in a stalemate in their struggle over North Korea's growing nuclear threat. How did we land in this imbroglio? Is there a way out, asks John West? Read more...
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