Volume 16 Issue 12

Articles from Volume 16 Issue 12

ASEAN-China Dialogue Relations at 25

08.01.2016 Prashanth Parameswaran

During his remarks at the 18th ASEAN-China Summit last November in Kuala Lumpur, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang lauded the “new progress” that could be made...

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Growing PLA Transparency as a Means of Employing Soft Power Part 2: PLA External Signaling since the 18th Party Congress

08.01.2016 Kenneth Allen

This article, the second of a two-part series, examines the PLA’s use of soft power for external signaling. The first article, available, here examines Chinese...

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Intellectuals Lobby For More Freedom As President Xi Faces Pushback From Party Rivals

08.01.2016 Willy Wo-Lap Lam

Academics, journalists and other free-thinking intellectuals have taken the bold step of calling for more freedom of expression and less Internet censorship. Others want to...

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Snapshot: China’s Southern Theater Command

07.22.2016 Peter Wood

On December 31, 2015 China began a major overhaul of its structure military organizational structure. This included the abolition of the seven previous Military Regions...

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