... we believe that the most important variable in the infinitely complex equation of the future China is nationalism. This paper attempts to answer the question: What role could nationalism and the conflicts it provokes play in the fate of China and the Asia-Pacific Region?
China’s Future in Europe’s Past?
Today’s China bears a number of resemblances to Germany under Wilhelm II: it is an economic powerhouse that has growing geopolitical ambitions and is backed by an ever-strengthening ...
Experts and diplomats from the US, Europe and Asia took part in the 7th South China Sea International Conference “
Cooperation for Regional Security and Development
” that took place in Vietnam’s Vung Tau city on November 23-24, 2015.
The conference discussed the impact of key trends in the global development on the situation in the water area, legal aspects of territorial disputes, as well as ways to reduce conflict potential.
Anton Tsvetov, RIAC Media and Government Relations...
... are far more relevant and interesting themes than the APEC integration agenda, to which Russia has little to contribute, and about which it can hardly boast. The APEC partners gave a cool reception to the Eurasian Economic Union created in 2015 in the Asia-Pacific context. Even the agreement on a
Free Trade Zone with Vietnam
signed in May 2015 and the project to link the Eurasian Economic Union with the Chinese Silk Road economic belt initiative did not afford mentioning of the Eurasian Economic Union ...
Analysts who focus on the Asia-Pacific have long been ranting that Russia is not paying enough attention to what is going on in the region, especially Southeast Asia. The ASEAN population is neither aware of what interests Russia nor understands how Russian particpation in their ...
The Food Economy – El Niño’s First Casualty
A connection between ocean temperatures and food supplies may seem remote, but when the warm waters of ‘El Niño’ appear in the Eastern Pacific, half of the world has cause to worry. This ‘Little Boy’ – named after the Christ child in Spanish – can affect crops and food supplies over a wide arc from Brazil through Australia and the Philippines to East Africa. Nevertheless, although a warmer Pacific affects the...
... cooperation between Beijing and Washington in disaster clean-up operations, interaction between military doctors, joint training exercises for engineering troops and participation in humanitarian aid programmes.
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Salvatore Babones:
The Asia-Pacific: More Stable than Anyone
Thinks
They are hardly ground-breaking – they do allow for broader military cooperation between Beijing and Washington, and thus cool the explosive potential of mutual distrust in Chinese–U.S. relations....
... trade ministers in the Philippines concluded – one of the key points of APEC’s annual programme. Trade ministers traditionally meet in the middle of the year to discuss ways to stimulate, facilitate and liberalise trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region.
For Russia, APEC is in fact the only platform in which the country participates in integration processes within the Asia-Pacific region through forming the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP). The aims of the FTAAP were outlined ...
... Japan, which has followed compliantly in the USA’s wake during the whole postwar period, suits this role better than others. As a result the main results of the visit were limited to two points: the key role of the American security system in the Asia-Pacific region was reconfirmed, and the American trade and economic initiative to create the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which is essentially unfavourable to Japan itself, was advertised.
As far as the American security system is concerned, here the ...
The Future of Japanese Military Power
The Future of Japanese Military Power
Today, the Asia-Pacific region once again faces the Japanese question: is Japan a peace-broker or peace-breaker? What is the future for Japanese military power? So far, there are two main views on its military reforms. On the one hand, Abe’s aspiration is ...
... forward naval presence coming to the fore. In particular, the strategy provides for ships deployed in forward areas to be increased from 97 in 2014 to 120 by 2020.
The document clearly outlines key operative areas and their hierarchy, with the Indo-Asia-Pacific region acquiring paramount significance. In contrast to the 2007 paper, the text mentions China and its "naval expansion", although cautiously referring to it as to a source of "opportunities and challenges." Through forward ...
