China’s growing presence in Latin America and the Carribean (LAC) is having other Asia-Pacific economic powers take notice and, amongst those, Japan seems to be…
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Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry (METI) has announced export restrictions on three chip-making components to South Korea, as a retaliatory move against Seoul’s…
The 22nd anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to China was again marked by the usual pro-democracy protests, but this year a new breed of protester…
Osaka’s G20 summit was the setting of yet another display of Trump’s two-steps-backward-one-step-forward “Art of the Deal” tactics… After branding Huawei Technologies a risk to…
From soft to sharp power… 80 years after Mao’s original formulation, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’s United Front Work is being…
Conférence donnée devant les membres du think tank Ambassadeurs de la Jeunesse, le 22 juin 2019 à Paris Picture credits: Ambassadeurs de la Jeunesse
Table-ronde organisée le 18 juin 2019 à l’Ecole de Guerre Economique, Paris Echanges très stimulants hier soir à l’Ecole de Guerre Economique, en compagnie de…
Been re-listening to a 2012 conference by Prof. John Mearsheimer, of University of Chicago, on why China cannot rise peacefully. Far from assigning a “good”…
Hong Kong strong… Unlike the 2014 Occupy movement, this time around most interest groups threw their weight behind the demonstrators, fearing Carrie Lam’s Extradition Bill…
Singapore to cash in on Hong Kong protests without breaking a sweat…
The eggs thrown by anti-Extradition Bill protesters at the Hong Kong Police Headquarters were not even dry yet that a crowd of Hong Kong millionaires…