Geopoliticus March 29, 2018 Comrade Kim Goes to China, but What Does That Really Mean? At a time when “ordinary” doesn’t seem to exist in Korean affairs, Kim Jong-un’s recent visit to China affirmed... Read more »
Geopoliticus March 9, 2017 Trump, Tsai, and the Three Communiques: Prospects for Stability in US-China-Taiwan Relations The Shanghai Communique of 1972 and the U.S.-China Joint Communiques of 1979 and 1982 have been essential foundations of... Read more »
Geopoliticus December 1, 2016 Revival of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are both free-trade agreements in Asia that... Read more »
Geopoliticus July 5, 2016 Limits of Chinese Friendship: China’s Development Loans to Venezuela In 2004, Chinese President Hu Jintao and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez agreed to form a “strategic partnership for common... Read more »
Geopoliticus June 6, 2016 A Backlash Against Chinese Military Activity in Djibouti — and Why It Matters In March we published an E-Note about the Chinese decision to establish a base in Djibouti — its first... Read more »
Geopoliticus December 29, 2015 China’s “One Belt, One Road” to Where? During visits to Central and Southeast Asia in 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled Beijing’s aspiration to create what... Read more »
Geopoliticus October 28, 2015 The Big Chill: Domestic Insecurities and Sino-Japanese Relations China and Japan sparred once again, this time at the United Nations. Last week, China’s ambassador for disarmament affairs... Read more »
Geopoliticus March 22, 2015 In China: “A Peaceful Democratic Transition?” Nothing appears by accident in the Global Times, Beijing’s mass-circulation tabloid owned by the People’s Daily and run by... Read more »
Geopoliticus September 24, 2014 Contested Border: China, India, and the Asian Century Chinese President Xi Jinping’s three-day visit to India last week was supposed to have breathed new life into ties... Read more »
Geopoliticus September 17, 2014 China and the Islamic State The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria might seem far removed from China. But the spread of its sort... Read more »