Belt & Road Initiative

Colombia’s balancing act amid Great Power Competition

This article is part of the report "Colombia's Role Amid Great Power Competition", published in September 2021 by Colombia Risk…

3 years ago

Global smart supply chain integration: is a trap being laid with the Logink platform?

With the increasing development of smart supply chains and logistics and the desire to take these to a global standard,…

3 years ago

Plurilateralism & economic security: the future of the world economy

On August 10, 2021, the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) Graduate School's Security Governance and Diplomacy Cluster (SGDC) conducted…

3 years ago

Is military conflict over Taiwan inevitable or is China masking its true economic agenda?

With much focus on the developments in the increasingly strategic geo-political Indo-Pacific region, current analysis in the West has shifted…

3 years ago

Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs): a Trojan horse in Manila’s rich ghettos

While Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) handle online gaming for mainland Chinese players, considered an illegal operation in China, the…

3 years ago

Will future trade with China require digital integration with its Belt & Road Initiative?

With all the talk of supply chain dependency on China needing to “decouple” because of supply issues being exposed by…

3 years ago

Foreign firms in China must move up, on or out

Recent developments between China and the world bring to mind a 1960s Buffalo Springfield song: “There’s something happening here—What it…

3 years ago

L’Asie d’après…

Le 19 février 2021, le Comité Asie de l'Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense Nationale (IHEDN-Jeunes) a interviewé Nicolas Michelon,…

3 years ago

The death of multilateralism. Disruptions of the Trump era

On May 14, 2021, Asia Power Watch Founder & Chief Editor Nicolas Michelon discussed with Dr. John Bruni of SAGE…

4 years ago

Foreign Development Assistance by China, India and Russia: a compared analysis

In this paper, we study the concessional and non-concessional financial flows to developing countries provided by China, India and Russia…

4 years ago