Category: Asia
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Xi Jinping’s Taiwan Dilemma
Author: Prof. Duncan McCampbell The visit to Taiwan by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi angered Beijing and led to a series of aggressive Chinese military manoeuvres that have people talking again about war. Less discussed is how Pelosi’s visit exposed an insoluble problem for Xi Jinping. Xi places “re-uniting” Taiwan with the Mainland as his top…
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China’s BRI in the Central and Eastern Europe (II).
Photo by: http://www.dailysabah.com Author: Marián Šeliga Slovakia and Poland: competition for cargo routes The war in Ukraine has plunged BRI projects in the CEE region into great uncertainty. Against this background the prospects of the BRI projects as well as the planned investments in the region look somehow bleak and unclear. In the second article in…
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China recalibrating its policy towards Taiwan after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Photo by: Reuters Author: Marián Šeliga A widely accepted narrative among Western analysts and experts implies that China is extremely cautious when dealing with the issue of providing help to Moscow after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to these experts China is fully aware of possible secondary sanctions from the United States and Western countries…
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China’s role in the new world of sanctions
Recently, there is a lot of discussion about the term “(first) world economic war” in the system of international relations. This term mainly defines the unprecedented economic and financial sanctions that the United States and Western countries have imposed and continue to impose on Russia. Although sanctions in the hands of the United States and…
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Shanghai faces unprecedented lockdown
Photo taken by Mfame.guru Author: Marián Šeliga Shanghai, the city with the largest container port in the world, was placed under a two-stage lockdown on March 28 in connection with the recent massive outbreak of Omikron in the city. Shanghai’s authorities have not yet announced when restrictions will be lifted. The EU chamber of Commerce…
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China’s BRI in the Central and Eastern Europe (I).
Author: Marián Šeliga This article is the first in a series of articles devoted to the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the Central and Eastern Europe region. Content: This article analyzes the current state of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region, the latest projects realised within…
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Beijing Winter Olympics 2022: sports, money and politics
Photo: Reuters Author: Igor Zarodov (Russian expert on China and sinologist) Contrary to the generally accepted ideological imperative and the Olympic ideal that sport and politics should not influence each other, the fact that politics is involved in sport cannot be denied in the modern real world. The victories of athletes and the sports industry…
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