How Gender Inequality Is Hindering Japan’s Economic Growth
By Sarah Parsons
Japan’s economy is under pressure from rising energy prices and defence costs and the impact of the pandemic. Plummeting birth rates and...
Is China Buying the World?
By Peter Nolan
China’s ‘catch-up’ has been one of the most remarkable aspects of the era of capitalist globalisation. Below, Peter Nolan argues that the...
China Looks West: What Is at Stake in Beijing’s “New Silk Road” Project
By Flynt Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett and Wu Bingbing
Not even two years into what will almost certainly be a ten-year tenure as China’s president,...
Chinese Resilience and Silent, Simple and Steady Resistance – a Model for Mankind
By Peter Koenig
In a positive appeal to the Chinese people, last Saturday, President Xi Jinping has called on the nation’s courage to defeat the...
What’s Lies Ahead for China’s Urban Waste Landscape?
By Jonas Törnblom
China’s rapid pace of urbanisation remains at full throttle. Mass urbanisation generates mass waste volumes and the physical limitations associated with how...
From RCEP and BRICS to APEC and G20 Summits: World’s Largest Free-Trade Pact Inspiration...
By Dr. Dan Steinbock
After four long years of diminished prospects, stagnation and divisive geopolitics, four summits could show the way toward a better future. ...
Basel I, II, III – We Want It All at Once
By Violaine Cousin
The complexity of Basel II and III has reached China. In a revolutionary turn within seven years, the Chinese bank regulator has...
The Political Economy of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the Growing Regional Multilateral Ties
By Kalim Siddiqui
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) was founded in 1996 by the People’s Republic of China, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan in order to...
China Accused Australia of Meat Sales Containing Corona Virus
Interview with Peter Koenig
NTV Question
What do you think of this investigation from China that COVID did not appear in Wuhan but came with frozen...
China’s Economic Outlook in the Year of the Tiger
By Tuuli McCully
The “Common Prosperity” ideology is set to drive Chinese authorities’ policy agenda, likely leading to continued government intervention into private sector affairs....





















































