Influence

European Union-China-US – the Golden Triangle?

On October 31st, 2023, Nicolas Michelon, Founder & Editor of Asia Power Watch and Partner at Confluence Consultants, was interviewed…

2 years ago

Dubaï, Riyad, Bogota : Comment la Chine est-elle devenue un partenaire incontournable ?

Le 12 septembre 2023, le Fondateur et Editeur-en-chef de Asia Power Watch, Nicolas Michelon, a été interviewé sur le podcast…

2 years ago

The challenge of the « 4Bs »: how to navigate a fractured geopolitical world

As the global landscape enters a “world between orders” and superpower rivalries multiply, businesses will have to navigate an increasingly…

2 years ago

Strategic constraints and right-wing organizations in Japan: the case of the Nippon Kaigi

In recent years, an obscure nationalist organization has regularly hit the news in Japan. Known as Nippon Kaigi or “Japan…

2 years ago

Japan and globalization: how strategic imperatives drive political change. The case of the Meiji era.

The second article of the series on the subject of “how strategic imperatives drive political changes in Japan” is about…

3 years ago

Japan and globalization: how strategic imperatives drive political change

CURRENT STATE OF JAPANESE SECURITY AFFAIRS The need to balance China’s emergence as a global political and military player has…

3 years ago

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…

3 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.…

3 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.…

3 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…

3 years ago