International Political Forum

China-Africa Relations: From Asymmetrical Dependence to Symmetrical Interdependence

Notwithstanding the increase of trade between China and the African Union countries in the last decade, and the large number of Chinese investments in Africa, these relations are mostly to the advantage of the Chinese and thei...
by Ahmed Alqarout
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Opening the Future of Friendship: Northeast Asia must learn from lessons of WW2

At the end of World War II vast swathes of Europe and Asia had been reduced to rubble. Borders were redrawn and homecomings, expulsions, and burials were underway as life goes on for those who survived the Great War. When the w...
by Yaerin Ku
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International Political Forum

Soft Power And The Middle Way – A Proposal For China And Her Minorities

An international statesman was received at the White House on the 21st February to meet and discuss the issues of the day with President Obama.  While this alone would not be cause for consternation, the identity of said stat...
by Christopher Cannell
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WATCH: China’s Booming Appetite for Ivory, and What it Means for the Elephant

After hearing that last year alone, more than 12% of the world’s elephants were killed for their tusks, a team from National Geographic decided to make a special on the threats to the world’s largest land animal. Why is the...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Innovation In Asia – A Creative Experiment?

What made the MaD conference 2014 so special? For me, it was because it was an Asian conference. As a youth who was born in Australia, grew up in Hong Kong, but studied in an international school for seven years in Beijing ...
by Helen Leung
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[Featured Image] Devaluing the Chinese Yuan

Commodity Culture and Currency Wars: The Consequence of Devaluating China

Global financial markets were thrown into panic as China allowed the Yuan to devalue for three days in a row in an effort to combat the countries slowing economic growth. The annual increase of China’s economy has slowed from...
by Vincent Gillan
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A Confucian noose: China’s universities are serving the state, but failing the people

China’s government has abused a nationalist neo-Confucian ideology to maintain its power in uncertain economic times – to the detriment of the country’s own future. Without a reform of its outdated higher education system...
by Gareth Lewis
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International Political Forum

The Legacy Of Western Imperialism And Reinstating China’s Former Glory

The 21st century has seen China’s economic rise to “great-power” status, thereby allowing Western nations fearing that it intends to challenge the global balance of influence. While realist thinkers such as John J. Mears...
by Sunjana Dalal
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China In Africa: Reproducing Dependency?

The huge growth of Chinese political and business interests in Africa is conceivably the most significant development for the continent’s international relations since the ending of the Cold War. Published trade figures alone...
by Ian Taylor
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