China’s blessed geography is so obvious a point that it tends to get overlooked in discussions of the country’s economic dynamism and national assertiveness. Yet it is essential: It means that China ...
To understand why China is so big, you have to look at centuries of expansion driven by strong dynasties and strategic ...
China is both a land and sea power, which makes containing it harder than it was to contain the largely landlocked Soviet Union. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) stretches across the Eurasian ...
NOT long since the Chinese Ambassador to England, in the course of a remarkable speech at Folkestone, twitted European scholars with the labours which they freely bestowed on the study of extinct ...
China says that its imperial claims over the near entirety of the South China Sea are justified by history and political morality. There is no substance, historical or diplomatic, to these assertions.
Geopolitics, History, and International Relations, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2010), pp. 268-273 (6 pages) I shall focus here on the emerging new poverty in China, social inequality under China’s rapid economic ...
The following is a transcript of Notes on the News, "China's Political Geography," first videocast July 13, 2009. I'm Paul Maidment. This is Notes On The News. When Deng Xiaoping decided to open up ...