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Xi’s Shenzhen card – from domestic circulation to political integration
After last year’s protests, the Chinese Communist Party no longer wishes to highlight Hong Kong’s economic prowess. Rather, it plans on implementing ambitious economic reforms in the city of Shenzhen so that the Greater Bay Area becomes a hub for innovation and growth. The new strategy foresees economic integration with Hong Kong, but political unification may also be the end goal.
Japan’s quiet build-up to naval pre-eminence in East Asia
A precept of strategic planning is to study a country’s military capabilities rather than its presumed intentions. Japan’s practically unnoticed return to the ranks of first-class naval powers is a case in point. The country has many reasons to downplay its resurgent sea power to domestic and foreign audiences. But ...
China’s economic and political controls are pulling in opposite directions
President Xi Jinping is tightening his grip on China. Some in the West have presumed that a second Cultural Revolution is under way. But the correct analysis would be that Mr Xi is simply increasing the socialist rhetoric and centralising power so as to concentrate decision-making authority. He is taking ...
China targets exports and cleaner air to counter steel demand slowdown
China’s boom years saw huge increases in steel production, particularly for housing, cars and infrastructure projects. The nation’s current economic slowdown has encouraged producers to concentrate on exports, sparking accusations of steel ‘dumping’ and leading to tariffs in some countries, writes GIS guest expert Brendan O’Reilly. Beijing has attempted to ...
Xi Jinping seeks a place in history as China’s great reformer
Reform, often preceded by the purposefully vague phrase ‘comprehensively deepening’, is one of the most picked apart words in China. Discussions on reform, whether political, economic or social, have intensified since November 15, 2012, the day Xi Jinping, son of Communist Party stalwart Xi Zhongxun (making him a princeling, or ...
