China’s Grand Strategy: Weaving a New Silk Road to Global Primacy is the latest book by Sarwar A. Kashmeri, Adjuct Professor of Political Science at…
Posts tagged as “Influence”
Shortly before entering the Golden Week celebrations of the PRC’s 70th anniversary, Chinese provincial authorities flexed their muscle by dispatching officials to close to 100…
Singapore has just strengthened its global position as an international affairs and trade intermediary, proxy and fixer. With the signing in the city-state on August…
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…
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…
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”…
When the regional branch in the State of Bahia of Brazil’s Associação das Empresas Brasileiras de Tecnologia da Informação (ASSESPRO Bahia) uses the picture of…
The China-Latin America relationship has cooled off recently, with several LatAm countries calling for a reset and Beijing’s support for Maduro causing serious damage. China…
Rakuten CEO Mickey Mikitani says he “cannot take 1% risk” on Huawei Technologies or ZTE Corporation… Goes for Nokia instead. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2019-02-13/rakuten-ceo-mikitani-says-he-s-happy-he-shunned-huawei-and-zte-video Picture credits: Nikkei Asian…
Russia as an influence proxy for China ?
Just as North Korea has long played the role of China’s nuclear deterrent proxy and Beijing has been capitalizing on Moscow’s frontal opposition to Washington…