Moving beyond power and tightened control
by Straton Papagianneas Two months after the Two Sessions in March, it might be interesting to revisit two key developments: the first one being the massive government restructuring and the second being the constitutional status given to the Nationa ...
Resources for Mapping China’s Participation and Contribution in Asian Regional Cooperation
by Aya Adachi Part I Resources for Empirical Data The People’s Republic of China shares borders with 14 states (excluding Hongkong and Macau). As China is one of the largest country in the world and second largest in Asia, its regional associati ...
Call for Papers 2018
China’s Domestic Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping – an Assessment of the First Five Years Xi Jinping is supposedly the strongest Chinese President since Mao Zedong; a charismatic leader whose hype is underpinned by his far-reaching institutional re ...
Call for Papers 2018
China’s Domestic Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping – an Assessment of the First Five Years Xi Jinping is supposedly the strongest Chinese President since Mao Zedong; a charismatic leader whose hype is underpinned by his far-reaching institutional re ...
The Social Credit System’s Greatest Leap Goes Unnoticed
by Marianne von Blomberg While China-journalists were all preoccupied with the Constitutional amendment, a major change occurred in the realm of the social credit system – which potentially might turn the existing order of politics and (constitution ...
Xi Jinping at the apex of power?
by Straton Papagianneas On 25/02 Xinhua published proposed changes to the State Constitution ahead of the upcoming National People’s Congress (NPC) early March. The proposal that attracted the most attention in Western media and among netizens was t ...
Mapping China Journal No. 1
Mapping China Journal Number 1 / 2017 Mapping China’s International Relations: Processes of Integration and Disintegration in the 21st Century Read the full Mapping China Journal Number 1 here. Individual Chapters: Read the Editors' Note and In ...
Top Features on China in 2017
by Julia Tatrai This Is What A 21st-Century Police State Really Looks Like Buzzfeed didn’t exactly ring a bell as a China specialized news page, but this chilling report by Megha Rajagopalan changed that (to a degree). After interviewing about two ...
The emergence of the AIIB in the context of current multilateral development cooperation
by Thomas Otto After becoming an important global creditor of foreign direct investment, China now also takes a leading role in multilateral development cooperation by establishing a new multilateral development bank (MDB), the Asian Infrastructure ...
Resource Special: The 19th Party Congress of the Communist Party of China
by Tatjana Romig Today’s kick-off of the CPC’s 19th party congress is a milestone for the future direction of Chinese politics. Thus, China watchers around the world closely track potential developments and outcomes. To help you fill in any knowledg ...