In November 2012, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held its 18th National Congress, setting in motion a once-in-a-decade transfer of power to a new generation of leaders. As expected, Xi Jinping took over as general…
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Overbalancing: The Folly of Trying to Contain China Former Australian PM Malcolm Fraser As the US reorients its foreign policy toward Asia, with the attendant redeployment of military assets to the region, fears…
The new cabinet of Japan´s Primie Minister Abe continues its new nationalist and militarist line. After dispitaching F-15´s to the disputed Diaoyu or Senkaku Islands, to which both Japan, China and Taiwan lay claimes, the…
When President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono hosts bilateral talks with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday the two leaders are expected to evaluate the progress of the Indonesia-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) to…
Rethinking China’s public diplomacy with Africa — The Foreign Aid Youth Volunteers Program as a case study [This article was co-written by Wang Xiaozhi, a professor of international relations at Peking University, Huang Lizhi, a…
naval base will be located between jeju island southkorea and china … On the small, spectacular island of Jeju, off the southern tip of Korea, indigenous villagers have been putting their bodies in the way of the construction of a joint…
[The 4th Media editor’s note: The dialogue below was done among three regular participants (XinMing, Allen and Maitreya of ChinesePerspectives@hiddenharmonies.org. The 4th Media believes this informal dialogue a quite helpful reference on the said issues…
I have been reviewing the US-government produced ‘Human Rights Report’ on China for 2012, and am astonished at the overwhelming extent of arrogance, duplicity, disingenuousness and propaganda contained therein. I am almost speechless….
In 2012 and even more so after last months land slide election victory of the LPD and prime Minister Abe, Japan has embarked on a militant nationalist path that causes Japan´s neighbors as well as…
A few weeks before the tsunami struck Fukushima’s uranium reactors and shattered public faith in nuclear power, China revealed that it was launching a rival technology to build a safer, cleaner, and ultimately cheaper network of reactors based on thorium. This passed unnoticed –except by a small of band of thorium enthusiasts – but it may mark the passage of strategic leadership in energy policy from an inert and status-quo West to a rising technological power willing to break the mould. If China’s dash for thorium power succeeds, it will vastly alter the global energy landscape and may avert a calamitous conflict over resources as Asia’s industrial revolutions clash head-on with the West’s entrenched consumption.