China

Assessing the effect of trade-based money laundering on terror financing. An Asian perspective.

Demonstrating a terrorist financing typology, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) documented a case study involving an alternative remittance system…

2 years ago

The EU strategic autonomy plan: an opportunity for Indonesia’s non-alignment policy

The European Union seems to be waking up from a 30-year geopolitical slumber with the combined Ukrainian and Covid-19 crises.…

2 years ago

The economic rationale for China’s pivot to Vietnam

There has been a lot of media coverage around the recent escalation of high-level negotiations underway between China and Vietnam.…

2 years ago

The ambiguous position of the South Korean semiconductor industry in the US-China tech war

On 7 October, the US Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced a new round of restrictions to prevent China…

2 years ago

China’s LOGINK digital platform: a weapon to bring about a new economic hegemon through data control, ownership, and manipulation?

Since the article published on this website in 2021, on China's drive towards creating a global smart supply chain integration…

2 years ago

The race for energy sovereignty. The case of China’s EV strategy

According to the successive Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, transportation is a major polluter with around 7.3 billion…

2 years ago

Leaving Hong Kong for a fresh air of democracy in Mongolia

A version of this article was published in Swedish by Sweden's leading business daily Dagens Industri. It feels like I…

2 years ago

As the global ‘Clash of civilizations’ intensifies, what is the end game?

Recently, the British PM hopeful Rishi Sunak joined the chorus of leaders blaming China for every evil in the world.…

2 years ago

The economics of maritime cybersecurity: chokepoints & vulnerabilities in the Indo-Pacific

The fifth domain’s consequential dominance and spatial presence in the cyberspace convey perplexity in the safety and security of humanity.…

2 years ago

Japan’s defense industry in dire straits

This article was originally published in French by le Portail de l'IE, in May 2022. Thank you to the author…

3 years ago