December 2013
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Is there growiing tension within China’s Communist Party? Would a Rising China start a war?
With a fast-changing China, questions are regularly being asked about what appeared to be growing tension…
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Khodorkovsky Arrives in Germany
My live radio interview on Khodorkovsky on Business Matters with BBC World Service on 21 December, 2013.…
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Third Plenum – Bold Reforms for The China Dream
A presentation to a regular meeting on 16 December 2013 of the EGN Hong Kong's Samurai…
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My December 2013 China newsletter
China's defining moment appears to have arrived. The Middle Kingdom has just launched a surprisingly wide…
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China’s air defense zone a test case for Great Power relations
My Op-ed article in the South China Morning Post dated 10 December, 2013 entitled "Despite its…
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China may not need to abandon one-party rule any time soon?
"Western liberal democracy would be wrong for China" was a motion debate in London on 9…
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Public ouster of North Korea’s No.2 is an ill omen
A New York Times report here features a North Korean official photo showing the unceremonial expulsion during…
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The Ascent of the RMB, the Chinese currency
My full-length research Paper on "The Ascent of the RMB, the Chinese currency". It consists of…
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A Great Power play unfolds over the East and South China Seas. Let not the Rubicon be crossed
Tension continues to simmer over China’s newly-declared ADIZ (Air Defence Identification Zone). America has encouraged its…