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*Cross-strait traffic
There are great expectations surrounding the current rapprochement process between China and Taiwan. Since the May inauguration of President Ma Ying-jeou of the Kuomintang (KMT) ...
11-Aug-2008
*Playing the Games - Sport and politics take to the field in Asia
George Orwell claimed in 1945 that "serious sport is war minus the shooting". It may be an exaggeraton, but the phrase highlights an oft-neglected issue ...
02-Jul-2008
*Air time - increasing China's aerial range
Much media attention has focused on the possibility of a Chinese aircraft carrier. Such an acquisition would have obvious strategic benefits for China in projecting ...
12-Jun-2008
*Breathing fire - China's media fuels nationalism
China's state-run media has recently undergone dramatic personnel changes, as a new generation of editors and managers have taken the reins of propaganda power. ...
15-May-2008
*Secret Sanya - China's new nuclear naval base revealed
China is constructing a major underground nuclear submarine base at Sanya, on Hainan Island off its southern coast, Jane's can confirm. Although Asian military sources...
15-Apr-2008
*China in their hands - Cracks form in a delicately crafted economy
Security analysis in China focuses on perceived international threats, social upheaval and disaffected minorities. Taiwan, Japan, the United States, Uighurs, Tibetans and the internal migration ...
10-Mar-2008
*Over a barrel - China's problems with oil
Power failures in China's central provinces in January have once again highlighted the importance of energy supply to the country's rapidly growing economy. Just two...
11-Feb-2008
*Reborn supremacy - China's control of Tibetan reincarnation
Reincarnation rarely overlaps with international security concerns. However, in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) of China, the topic has implications for the way Beijing rules...
17-Jan-2008
Borderline friends - Sino-Indian ties warily improve
India and China are to participate in a joint military exercise in December for the first time in their histories. The exercise, set up during ...
06-Dec-2007
*Missiles on parade - Taiwan displays more than its weapons
Taiwan conducted its first National Day parade for 16 years on 10 October, rolling out the bulk of its most sophisticated military hardware. In front...
14-Nov-2007
*Flying the flag - China's global military exercises
As Chinese officials ponder and academics debate the rationale and means for China to express a military dimension to its rapidly accumulating global economic and...
18-Oct-2007
*Party politics - The forthcoming leadership in China
At the end of August, a date of 15 October was set for the 17th Chinese Communist Party (CCP) National Party Congress. The fove-day assembly...
12-Sep-2007
*Troubled waters - China's efforts to quench its growing thirst
For centuries, Chinese emperors travelled annually to the Temple of Heaven in Beijing during the winter solstice to pray for good weather and bountiful harvests....
13-Aug-2007
*Naval gazing - Emerging expeditionary capabilities in the western Pacific
Areport by the Kanwa news agency on 6 July that contracts have already been issued for components of an indigenously built Chinese aircraft carrier has ...
19-Jul-2007
Going soft - China's alternative route to regional influence
Soft power was a term coined by Joseph Nye in the late 1980s to explain the ability of an entity to influence other entities ...
11-Jun-2007
Blossoming relations - Chinese visit signals easing of tensions
The visit of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to Japan on 11 April brought praise from the Japanese media and raised hopes that Sino-Japanese relations ...
10-May-2007
*Strait race - China restrained in run-up to Taiwan's elections
With less than a year to go before Taiwan's presidential election in March 2008, the campaigning and positioning are already under way. Vice-President Annette ...
02-Apr-2007
*Peace maker - A security mechanism for Northeast Asia?
The establishment of the six-party talks mechanism and its continued cohesion has been one positive achievement among the many anxieties caused by North Korea's ...
28-Feb-2007
*Space to manoeuvre - Satellite attack upsets US space supremacy
On 11 January 2007, after three previous unsuccessful attempts, China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) succeeded in performing a successful surface-to-space kinetic kill of a ...
07-Feb-2007
*Foreign friends - China expands relations with India and Pakistan
A contingent of Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Special Forces troops from the Chengdu Military Region deployed to Pakistan for the Friendship 2006 counter-terrorism ...
05-Jan-2007
Trains to Nepal leave India feeling the cold
During a visit by Nepalese Deputy Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to Lhasa in September 2006, the chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region announced ...
14-Dec-2006
*Hu tightens his grip but still has to share
Four years after becoming Chinese Communist Party (CCP) general secretary, Hu Jintao has further consolidated the hold of his 'fourth generation' on the CCP....
14-Nov-2006
*Taiwan stresses China's growing offensive options
The epic story of Taiwan's special arms procurement package from the US, first agreed in 2001, continues. Vice-Minister of National Defence Vice-Admiral Kao Kuang-hsi ...
24-Oct-2006
Boom and bust: will the Chinese economy crash?
The stability of the Chinese economy, along with its continued rapid growth, is fundamental to the continued solidity of Chinese society. The Chinese Communist Party ...
05-Sep-2006
Beijing displays its human rights diplomacy
China's vice-foreign minister Yang Jiechi's speech to the inaugural session of the UN Human Rights Council was a further reminder that human rights remain an ...
15-Aug-2006
China's nuclear strategy
China maintains an official 'no first use' policy with regard to its nuclear weapons. However, the Pentagon report quotes Major-General Zhu Chenghu, from the ...
06-Jul-2006
Pentagon raises eyebrow at China's military rise
The pace of Chinese military development has taken Washington unawares, according to a recent Pentagon report. The 2006 Annual Report on Military Power of ...
06-Jul-2006
Sino-Arabian relations flourish with the oil trade
As a sign of China's increasing engagement with Arab countries, Beijing hosted the second ministerial meeting of the China-Arab Co-operation Forum from 31 May to ...
12-Jun-2006
*China's ambiguity in Sudan
China deployed 25 peacekeepers to Sudan in early April, contributing to the UN effort to end the violence in the south of the country. The ...
09-May-2006
Five-year plan reinforces Hu's confident reformism
The fourth session of the 10th National People's Congress (NPC), the annual meeting of China's unicameral parliament, finished in Beijing on 17 March. Although the...
07-Apr-2006
US Quadrennial Defense Review sparks anger in China
Once again, a report by the US military has provoked a public display of ire in Beijing. This time, it is the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense ...
06-Mar-2006
Beijing's censorship of the internet
The issue of internet censorship and monitoring in China came to the fore once again in mid-January 2006 when, at the behest of the Chinese...
02-Feb-2006
China's battle against designer drugs
While heroin abuse remains China's most serious illegal drug problem, the rapid rise in the popularity of synthetic drugs is causing concern. In addition to ...
30-Dec-2005
China's strategic diplomacy
The 10th Sino-Russian prime ministers' meeting between Wen Jiabao and Mikhail Yefimovich Fradkov in Beijing in early November "epitomises the two countries' determined efforts to ...
02-Dec-2005
Is China moving down a more socialist path?
China's latest five-year plan contains "revolutionary changes" to the country's economic and social development, according to the People's Daily. The changes, outlined by the 16th ...
10-Nov-2005
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