Opinion & Analysis

RCEP signed for shared prosperity despite ideological divides

Johnson LI 2020-12-29 The RCEP aims to deliver shared benefits to its member states by recognising the realities of different countries and reflecting the concerns of all members to the maximum ...

Political ecology in Taiwan after its Elections

LI Yue 2020-01-15 Taiwan’s incumbent leader Tsai Ing-wen won the election on 11 January with record 8.17 million votes, which is a result of many factors, but none more important than the fundam ...

US-Iran war will not happen soon

Johnson LI 2020-01-10 There have staged many large-scale wars in the Middle East since world II, among which some were triggered by internal religious, political and ethnic conflicts in combinat ...

Conference on “One Country, Two Systems” and the Basic Law held in Hong Kong

2019-12-10 On 9 December, the 2019 conference on “One Country, Two Systems” and the Basic Law was co-hosted by Tianda Institute, Bauhinia Magazine, and Hong Kong New Youth Energy Think Tank at ...

Making STAR market cradle of tech enterprises

SHI Lu 2019-07-07 Technology is what drives the contemporary economy. The economic, political and military competition between China and the United States is essentially the contest between the ...

Does China still have anything to learn from Japan?

ZHANG Wang 2019-02-25 In recent years, China has focused on its military and economic rise in the world arena, but has neglected the need to promote the essence of traditional Chinese culture in ...

How the BRICS got here?

Alyssa AYRES 2019-01-25 The BRICS, a bloc comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, has in its short existence rapidly expanded its diplomatic activities, demanded a louder voice ...

Pence’s Speech: one signal, three mindsets

Johnson LI 2018-10-26 US Vice President Mike Pence delivered a speech at the Hudson Institute think tank on 4 October, which sent one signal and reflected three mindsets.
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Stakes of US-China trade war may escalate to $600 billion

LIN Feng 2018-07-10 The consensus in China’s corridors of power seems to be that China has to fight back in the trade war initiated by the United States, which is seen as part of Washington’s sy ...

Optimising the social balance sheet through industrial investment banking

SONG Lianghua 2017-08-01 The subprime mortgage crisis has led to a money-flooded world suffering from both financial overdevelopment and underdevelopment, which has increasingly exposed the fina ...