China

Weddings and Funerals: The Paradox in China’s Developing LGBT Community

Gang Li • Aug 12 2015 • Articles

Queer comrades should ‘come out’ again, change from being isolated individuals in closed small circles and limited groups, and form a real community.

The New Generation of Chinese Feminists

Yaya Chen • Aug 9 2015 • Articles

China’s feminists have launched performances, demonstrations, and a national speaking tour, have organised workshops on different topics, recruited, trained new members.

What Do Chinese Youth Really Think about Gender?

Huili Meng • Aug 6 2015 • Articles

The post 90s Chinese can’t transcend the patriarchal power system, but evidence suggests that gender literacy is having a positive effect, building gender consciousness.

String of Pearls: India and the Geopolitics of Chinese Foreign Policy

Ashay Abbhi • Jul 26 2015 • Articles

At the cusp of energy security balances the diplomatic battle in the Indian Ocean has generated enough interest for the world to watch the passive stand-offs keenly.

India’s Incremental Balancing in the South China Sea

David Scott • Jul 26 2015 • Articles

India’s strategic-military arrangements are implicitly China-centric, and with increasing significance for the balance of power in the South China Sea.

It’s Not Only about Illegal Migration & International Law: The Uighur Conundrum

Siegfried O. Wolf • Jul 21 2015 • Articles

the criticism on the deportation of the Uighur from Thailand to China shows the ambiguity international actors regarding the Uighurs’ treatment by international partners.

US Policy on the South and East China Seas: Is Underbalancing the Future’s Wave?

Brad Nelson • Jul 20 2015 • Articles

The US needs to set new patterns of behavior now so as to instantiate them, make them routine and hard to break in the future, no matter who is in the White House.

Review – The Sino-Soviet Alliance: An International History

Wonhee Lee • Jun 27 2015 • Features

Jersild provides an excellent multidimensional analysis of the Beijing-Moscow relationship and valuable strategic insights which demarcate this book from earlier titles.

Review – The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia’s New Geopolitics

Kunal Mukherjee • Jun 24 2015 • Features

Small gives us a fresh and well-researched book on Chinese, Indian, Pakistani and Afghani politics and the key geopolitical security issues of the Asian region.

‘Oil Then,’ ‘Water Now’: Another Reason for War in the 21st Century?

Strobe Driver • Jun 22 2015 • Articles

Water has now become a most sought after commodity, one that countries have displayed a renewed interest in and with an increasing amount of threat-of-force.

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