May 2015
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Are China’s ambitions in the South China Sea a threat?
TV panel debate on Inside Story with Aljazeera English on 30 May amid the Asia Security Summit at…
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Reforming Shadow Banking in China
A Brookings Institution Paper (May 2015) by Douglas J. Elliott, Fellow, Economic Studies, Initiative on Business and…
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China’s Military Strategy 2015
The State Council issued China’s Military Strategy 2015, a White Paper, on 26 May. It gives…
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US-China 21- The Future of US-China Relations under Xi Jinping
An April 2015 report for the Belfer Centre of the Harvard Kennedy School for Science and…
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Warnings of China’s imminent collapse are – once again – greatly exaggerated
My Op-ed article with the above tagline was published in the South China Morning Post of 18…
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Water Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan (“Water Ten Directives”)
China's per capita freshwater availability is only a quarter of the world average. Moreover, there is…
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The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends
In an April, 2015 Report, McKinsey & Co highlights the following fundamental disruptive global forces that…
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Why China’s consumers will continue to surprise the world
Fears about China’s slowing economy are overblown, according to Jeffrey Towson, Managing partner of the investment…
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Europe’s Shattered Dream of Order
There is a great deal of insight in the analysis Europe's Shattered Dream of Order: How Putin Is…
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Turkish-China Relations:New Silk Road in a Changing World
My PowerPoint presentation on 28th April at the 2015 Forum Istanbul, a high-level annual conference with…