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Sino-U.S. Strategic & Economic Potential
us_china_flag.jpg Home Page News Page Behind the 7th Sino-US Strategic & Economic Dialogue<p>In the recent S&ED between China and the U.S, the most intriguing developments involved...
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Is Criticism of Japan on Climate Change Well-Placed?
solar_panels.jpg Home Page News Page Japan has received some sharp criticism following the G7 meeting in June 2015 for its stance on climate change. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced a...
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Rounding Up Corrupt Chinese Officials in Australia
china_corruption.jpg Home Page News Page China has an emigration problem. Corrupt officials have decamped to all corners of the world and the Chinese Communist Party wants to haul them home. Australia...
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UNICEF's Report on the World's Poorest Children Shows More Needs to be Done
unitednatioins.jpg Home Page News Page UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, has warned that despite rapid progress in reductions of poverty and deprivation among children worldwide, disparities...
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Indo-Myanmar Border Operations are Straining Area Relationships
indiasrilanka.jpg Home Page News Page Recent events along the Indo–Myanmar border have proven that India’s Narendra Modi government has a different playbook when it comes to pro-active responses...
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The Link Between Celebrity Activism and Economic Progress
activism.jpg Home Page News Page Celebrity activism and support for African humanitarian causes – such as the Enough Project, Akon’s Lighting Africa and Kony 2012 – has become mainstream. However, what...
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Shinzo Abe and Park Geun-hye Celebrate the 1965 Japan-South Korea Treaty
japan_south_korea_2.jpg Home Page News Page The synchronised but separate 50th anniversary celebrations of the Japan–South Korea Treaty on Basic Relations illustrate the relationship between the two...
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On a Tear, On Tor, Until You're Caught
cyber_crime.jpg Home Page News Page On October 2 2013, after months of extensive joint federal investigations, the FBI arrested Ross William Ulbricht (aka “Dread Pirate Roberts") for his role in...
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European Nations at Loggerheads over Migrants
eu_flag.jpg Home Page News Page The financial woes in Greece are not the sole crisis dividing European states. Tensions over how to deal with thousands of migrants landing in the Mediterranean have...
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The Tangible Benefits to China from its Low Carbon Trajectory
china_air.jpg Home Page News Page China has submitted its formal pledge to the UN climate negotiations. China’s target is a 60–65 percent reduction in the emissions intensity of its economy compared to...
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Bringing the Fight to China's Growing Drug Business
drugs_2.jpg Home Page News Page If you like to take long walks in Shanghai, this may have been the first summer when you detected something new in the air: the scent of marijuana. It is a sad...
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Graduating from Factor Accumulation to Better Education Systems
asian_school.jpg Home Page News Page Investment in human capital through education, partly by the government, as a precondition for sustainable growth, is almost a universal thought. For Asian...
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The Zero Draft Solution
consumption.jpg Home Page News Page The world’s governments are preparing to finalise the Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations in September 2015. It is set to be a major international...
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Sustainable Development Goals are on the Way, but will They Help?
poverty.jpg Home Page News Page On 25–27 September, less than 3 weeks from now, heads of state of 192 nations will sign up for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which will succeed the Millennium...
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A Linear Economy's Environmental and Social Consequences
landfill.jpg Home Page News Page The prosperity that we are enjoying today could largely be attributable to the industrial revolution of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Yet this enhancement of our...
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Patrolling New Chinese 'Territory', or Not
patrol_boat.jpg Home Page News Page The US defence establishment’s provocative plan to assert freedom of navigation by patrolling near China’s artificial islands in the South China Sea appears to have...
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Merkel Faces Tough Political Decisions Over Refugees
eu_refugees.jpg Home Page News Page Chancellor Angela Merkel has shown great compassion in allowing hundreds of thousands of refugees to enter Germany. Nevertheless, she has to avoid playing into the...
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What Does Cyber-Espionage for National Security Cover?
cyber_espionage.jpg Home Page News Page The cyber theft of millions of personal dossiers from the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM), revealed by US authorities in June 2015, has put...
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Intervening in Childhood Homelessness with Education Offers Hope
homeless_child.jpg Home Page News Page People who become homeless as a child are more likely to have lower employment rates in adulthood than those who become homeless later, according to new research...
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The Inevitable U.S. FON Operations in the South China Sea
navigation_chart.jpg Home Page News Page Recent statements suggest that the United States will soon conduct freedom of navigation (FON) operations against China’s artificial formations in the South...
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