China

Translation and Interpretation: The English School and IR Theory in China

Roger Epp • Feb 20 2016 • Articles

IR theory in the West has become parochial and stale. Therefore, it may need Chinese scholarship at least as much as the reverse is true.

Xi Jinping’s UK Visit Raises Questions about How to Deal with a Rising China

Zhiqun Zhu • Feb 13 2016 • Articles

President Xi’s active global diplomacy is not so much about what China wants and does, but how the international community responds to the new China

UK-China Relations: A New Model of Influence?

Kerry Brown • Feb 1 2016 • Articles

It will be some time before the effects of the UK’s recent investment engagement strategy towards China become clear; if it pays off it may be a new template of influence

Review – Comparative Study of Child Soldiering on Myanmar-China Border

Simon Reich • Jan 26 2016 • Features

Despite its briefness, this title does an admirable job of explaining the underlying causes of what is arguably the most acute case of child soldiering today.

What Next for Renminbi Internationalization?

Tristram Sainsbury • Jan 26 2016 • Articles

Chinese authorities need to pursue consistent and measured financial policies considering the impact on other countries, and not cause global financial instability.

Education Reform and the Asian Values Debate

Nicholas Tampio • Dec 24 2015 • Articles

The emergence of tutoring businesses all across neighborhoods in the United States is the result of American policymakers’ obsession with test-based education reform.

The Impact of Industrial Revolutions: China’s Rise and the Decline of Japan

Strobe Driver • Dec 13 2015 • Articles

Japan stands at a crossroads. It will have to accept that unless it de-escalates tensions through critical dialogue it will be faced with a fractious China.

India and China in Southeast Asia: An Evolving Theatre of Competition?

Pankaj K Jha • Dec 7 2015 • Articles

The global order has become a matter of debate given the alternatives that are emerging such as the Asian Monetary Fund and the incremental evolution of BRICS.

The Implications of the Xi-Ma Meeting for China-Taiwan Relations

Sheryn Lee • Dec 6 2015 • Articles

Cross-Strait relations are merely one factor in the voting calculus of the Taiwanese electorate, and Beijing still does not formally recognise the existence of Taiwan.

Testing the Waters in the South China Sea

Zhiqun Zhu • Nov 26 2015 • Articles

Reactions to US operations in the South China Sea demonstrate that China and the United States seem to have established a working protocol for issues they disagree on

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