There’s an old joke about Brazil that suggests that it’s the country of the future – and it always will be. For a while this looked to be an anachronistic, possibly racist stereotype that had been decisively…
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China and Japan don’t get on. This is a problem for them and for the rest of the world given their economic and strategic importance. It hasn’t always been this way, though. Japan once acknowledged China’s…
On a recent trip to Zimbabwe, Xi Jinping announced $60bn in development funding. It’s an incredibly ambitious project.
For the grand plans unveiled at the China-Africa summit to succeed, Africa will have to cooperate more extensively. The larger and more successful nations need to become sub-regional leaders.
With US$60 billion in new deals announced, Beijing might look like it has the continent wrapped up.
Many developing nations are likely to support any motions China proposes at COP21.
The Africa-China summit will provide an opportunity to get a feel for how Chinese President Xi Jinping is responding to democratic developments in Africa.
China’s transition to a consumer-based economy offers opportunities for private investors, but more financial reform is needed to open them up.
As China moves towards a ‘new normal’ on economic growth, it will use its five-year plan to promote sustainable growth.
The US and China may have competing ambitions for the Asia-Pacific in the shape of the TPP and AIIB, but they may not be as incompatible as we have first believed.
Xi Jinping’s visit to the UK has been hailed as the start of a ‘golden era’ in UK-China relations. But what’s China getting out of the trip?
China’s economy is stuttering and the slowdown is set to continue.
Globalization first became a bedrock of our vocabulary in the 1990s in the aftermath of the Cold War. Proponents of globalization then argued that everything would change – and for the better. There would…
China, the world’s biggest greenhouse emitter, will set up a national emissions trading scheme beginning in 2017. Our experts react to the announcement, made during President Xi Jinping’s US state visit.
The meeting between the leaders of China and the United States has rapidly become the gold standard for set-piece diplomatic extravaganzas. Xi Jinping and Barack Obama are, after all, the two most powerful…
While the timing of the planned forum is not ideal, it continues a long tradition of Chinese leaders engaging with US tech leaders and may prove beneficial to overall relations.
Many people outside China find it hard to understand its obsession with history. Appropriately enough, however, a little historical context can help to explain this. China has had more recorded history…
The Tianjin explosion may hurt the city’s economy. But it will hurt its corrupt officials more.
Neither Russia nor China like the EU, but they’ve each got their ways of dealing with its members.
As the biggest tiger yet claimed by his anti-corruption crusade goes down, Xi Jinping finds himself in a terrible bind.
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Tony Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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