Looking at the world economy through the lenses of the Gross National Income (GNI) per-capita it is possible to identify four categories. The first... Read More
The need for infrastructure in Asia has significantly grown. The Asian Development Bank (ABD) has estimated this need to be USD2.8 trillion between 2016... Read More
East Asia, Globalisation and World Trade The world trade system has for centuries represented wider economic, political and technological developments shaping human society, as... Read More
A strong consensus has formed that many secondary states have adopted security strategies best categorised as ‘hedging’. This argument is most often made with... Read More
“Outside a truly limited number of countries that occupy a strategic position in Chinese diplomacy like Russia and North Korea, China is willing to provide economic and diplomatic support and sell weapons and train security forces. Yet, when push comes to shove, Beijing will stand aside, never truly committed to the survival of any regime.”