Chinese Spring?
With the "Arab Spring" scenario unfolding in Ukraine, the USA is aiming at, among other things, driving a wedge between Russia and the EU, and we must recognize that they will succeed in doing this. It is no secret that Russia's power rests on hydrocarbon exports. The primary...
Battle With Corruption In China: Real Causes And Objectives
Many people have heard about corruption in China as well as the companies that are combating it, both in the Middle Kingdom and abroad. Another company has been brought to light by incumbent Chinese President Xi Jinping immediately after he...
Chinese National Security Committee
At the III plenum of the XVIII Central Committee of the CPC, convened in November 2013, among other things, the create of a Chinese National Security Committee was announced. Not much information is available about the new Committee, as is to be expected for...
China: Questions Of State Integrity
We are accustomed to thinking of the Middle Kingdom as something integral and unified, and the Chinese people as a sort of national monolith, but historically these lands often were often occupied by numerous individual governments fighting amongst themselves...
Two Chinas
The problem of the two separate Chinas interacting is by no means new and generally it pertains to issues with Taiwan, i.e. defining the relationship between Beijing and Taipei in the new bipolar world of the second half of the 20th century. The USSR and the USA were the...
Soft Power of PRC, and what Beijing Has To Offer the World
In the present-day world, where the economy constitutes a single market and different political systems are constantly being unified, indirect methods of influencing the opponent – cultural-ideological and world-view instruments of influence – are becoming...
China and the multipolar world
There is every reason to believe that the growing confrontation between the West and Russia, which resulted in a conflict around Ukraine and Crimea, is an important milestone, marking a new stage in the struggle for the future world order...
Overseas Chinese and Their Role in China’s Policies
Chinese diasporas are among the most numerous and well organized diasporas in the world. There is a special term “Huaqiao” (overseas Chinese to indicate the ethnic Chinese living outside of China. There are about 50 million overseas Chinese all over the world and...
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