Cooperation amid Suspicion: The Paradox of Contemporary Canada–China Relations
Contemporary Canada–China relations cannot be characterized simply as friendly or adversarial. Instead, they embody a paradox of cooperation amid suspicion ...
CHINA STUDIES
China Studies as a whole brings into perspective the rising power's mounting economic, military and diplomatic clout that certainly has the aptitude to either overturn or sustain the current contemporary world order. The Center broadly examines China's international strategic thinking and conduct, foreign and security policy, and the impact of domestic politics and economy on China's foreign relations. It further addresses China's emergence in the face of the world in flux, domestic politics, economy, society, culture, People's Liberation Army and Tibet Autonomous Region and most importantly her engagement with each of South Asian country.
ARTICLES
Redefining the Himalayan Frontier: India’s Post-Galwan Strategic Recalibration toward China
India’s post-Galwan strategy is one of "calibrated persistence." It recognizes that the era of cooperation is being replaced by an era of contested regionalism ...
The Silent Takeover: How Industrial Fishing Fleets are Redrawing Maritime Borders
The silent takeover of the South China Sea is a warning to the rest of the world. It demonstrates how civilian resources can be weaponised to achieve strategic ends without the "messiness" of kinetic warfare ...
Xi Jinping’s 2026 New Year Message: Deciphering Beijing’s Intentions and its Achievements
As the eve of 31st December set in, President Xi Jinping sent his wishes all across China from Beijing. President Xi’s 2026 New Year's Address touched on several achievements of the People's Republic of China in 2025 ...
The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
Jin’s book is well-written with loaded, insights and is full of consciously selected tales and incidents. On the contrary, it also seems like a landscape full of secret rabbit holes, where we happily amble around before abruptly finding ourselves in a deserted location ...
New Era Opening up of Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP), Expanding Maritime Economy and Trade
The Hainan initiative can be utilised for international trade port development, which is and shall not be limited just to China’s mainland and its peripher ...
ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) 3.0 Upgrade Protocol: A Catalyst for the Strategic Stability in the South China Sea
The upgraded 3.0 China-ASEAN Free Trade Area is not a reactionary attempt, but evolved over a period of time after several rounds of review ...
Growth in China-Philippines’ Tension in the South China Sea and the United States
The South China Sea has against renewed attention from the global community and bifurcated the scholarly community into proponents and against the motion ...
A Calculated Break: What Golden Week Reveals about China’s Governance Model
More than just a vacation, Golden Week (from Oct 1-7) in China is a state-produced performance of coordination that carefully ties control and consumption, offering rare insight into how China governs through time ...
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Not One Inch: Continuity from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping in China’s Maritime Manifest Destiny
While Mao’s foreign policy was often a struggle for the PRC's very existence, Xi’s strategy is a struggle for dominance, framed as the inevitable return to a historical norm ...