China
29.04.2013
The Senkakus — a New Chapter in the Saga of the Islands
The territorial conflict over the disputed islands of the Senkaku archipelago (called the Diaoyu Islands by China) in the East…
25.04.2013
Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and the Railway Projects
Washington is actively trying to take advantage of the transportation deadlock that Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan found themselves in after the…
15.01.2013
Problems Arising from China’s Development. Part 6
Some conclusions. I make no claim to cover China’s problems completely in this article. Nevertheless, the issues I discuss allow…
29.12.2012
Problems Arising from China’s Development. Part 4
Problems of political stability § 1. China’s chief domestic political stability problem is its ethnic heterogeneity. Unlike the European Union,…
05.12.2012
Problems Arising from China’s Development. Part 3
Military-strategic issues. China’s military-strategic objectives derive from the many needs of its foreign trade and the foreign policy issues that…
01.12.2012
Problems Arising from China’s Development. Part 2
Foreign policy problems. China’s main foreign policy problem is that no threat nation wants to reduce it to a pathetic…
28.11.2012
Problems Arising from China’s Development. Part 1
“An island economy.” With each year that passes, China’s economy comes more and more to resemble that of an “Island…
15.06.2012
Some Aspects of Current Day US-Chinese Relations in the Asia-Pacific Region
East and South-East Asia and the Asia-Pacific region as a whole are moving towards an increasingly evident and dangerous confrontation between the United States on the one hand and China on the other. Both countries aspire to dominance...
01.03.2012
China and South-East Asia. Part 3
Threats to regional security China’s offensive policy obviously has a very negative impact on security in the region and, above…
27.02.2012
China and South-East Asia. Part 2
The post-colonial period Everything in China’s expansion to the south and south-west changed again after the Second World War and…
25.02.2012
China and South-East Asia. Part 1
A historical perspective Russia at present is cooperating more and more closely with China: We have many things in common…