Conference Paper
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An important attribute in distinguishing a middle power from typical small states is activism: a persistent and concerted effort to put forward, promote, and institutionalize an actionable initiative.
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The return of hard-edged competition between the U.S. and Russia, and the Chinese BRI, have brought three great powers into an asymmetric competition for influence in the region.
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The Asia-Pacific risks being torn into the confronting Indo-Pacific framework. China’s BRI will encourage Asian nations to resume their traditional interaction in pattern of spiral evolution of history.
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The recent decision of the US to use the term “Indo-Pacific Command” (INDOPACOM) explicitly recognizes a new set of geopolitical realities: increased peacetime competition with the People's Republic of China.
States with a strong science and technology base, technologies or platforms can lock in enduring, self-perpetuating benefits, positioning themselves to weaponize supply chains and networks to advance their interests.
Xi Jinping rapidly made himself the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong, and how in turn his authoritarian ways have sparked a backlash against him at home and abroad.
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The changed Indo-Pacific strategic environment is a catalyst to politically motivate and enable Australia to establish precursors of Great Power capacity.
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Pacific island states have unique security concerns, particularly in relation to climate change, and are working together to tackle them as one ocean continent: the ‘Blue Pacific’.
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With the U.S. increasingly isolating itself on the world stage and less willing to provide leadership on many transnational issues (such as global warming), China...
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China’s economic development is confronted with the two related constraints of domestic energy depletion and higher prices for international energy. These constrictions and the “shale...
This paper considers rivalry between China and Japan by asking, what are the reasons for, and measures of, Japan’s competition with China? Is it possible...
China's BRI consists of four land corridors and one maritime corridor. It has been understood as economic statecraft, a Chinese grand strategy and a tool...