China
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China’s Anti-Access/Area-Denial Strategy
Abstract: Over the past 20 years, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has built an extensive anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) system around the East China Sea, the South China Sea, and the Strait of Taiwan. This system, which includes anti-ship, anti-air, and anti-ballistic weapons, submarines, and other naval and aerial capabilities, does significantly alter the strategic environment… Read More
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Russia-China’s Information Warfare In A Changing Global Order
Abstract: With the advancement of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), states worldwide use it not only to better their people’s living standards, but also as a tool of statecraft. Information operations, campaigns, and warfare have been used for ages. With the expansion of the Internet (57% of the world’s population uses it), collection of data,… Read More
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Why Was The Chinese Nuclear Program So Efficient?
Abstract: On the 16th October 1964, at 1500 hours local time, the People’s Republic of China became the 5th nation in the world to join the so-called nuclear powers club[1], successfully detonating a twenty-two-kiloton atomic fission bomb (‘Miss Qui’)[2] in the Taklamakan Desert. The astonishing fact is that Mao’s China managed to accomplish this feat… Read More
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How Hong Kong Resists China
Abstract: The nature and underlying causes of what is happening in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region have a long trajectory. While the international community began to hear about the protests in Hong Kong only a few years ago, the reality is that the tension between both parties goes back to Hong Kong’s roots, from… Read More
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International Relations And Rationality: A Theoretical Test Of Rational Choice And Cognitive Limits
Abstract: Are states rational actors? If so, why do states in the Asia-Pacific make different security strategies despite the relatively equal security setting? This paper seeks to test two theories: Rational Choice Theory (RCT) and the Cognitive Limits Theory (CLT) in the Asia-Pacific. In the said region, pro-American middle powers neighbour the People’s Republic of… Read More
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Using Geoeconomics To Contain China
Abstract: Geoeconomics is at the heart of containment strategy as China mounted its belligerence and violated the global rule-based order. This led to an emerging consensus at the global level powered by the US to tackle the imminent threats posed by China within the established framework of international order. The US’s underlying intent is to… Read More
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The Abraham Accords And The I2U2
Abstract: The Abraham Accords and the recently formed I2U2 have heralded the beginning of new geopolitical realignments in the Middle East or West Asia region. Many have seen the I2U2 as a ‘Middle Eastern QUAD’ brought together by the concerns of a possible nuclear-armed Iran as well as the increasing presence of China However, given… Read More
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The PRC: International Stimulus, Strategic Culture And Resulting Domestic Policies
Abstract: This article deals with the effect of systemic stimulus as an independent variable, the strategic culture dominated by fear as an intervening variable, the resulting domestic policies as a dependent variable, and how these policies can endanger the state’s survival. The measures taken by China in recent years by gradually closing the country to… Read More
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Blood Stains On Iron Brothers
Abstract: April 26, 2022, marks the first female suicide attack in Pakistan. Four people died, including three Chinese teachers and their Pakistani driver. A terrorist group in Pakistan, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), took responsibility for the attack. The state narrative on this attack was it was on the Pakistan-China cooperation. However, there is more… Read More
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The New Euro-Asian Interest In Africa And The Revival Of Authoritarianism
Abstract: In the last two decades, Africans have not only had to contend with the influence of traditionally dominant European states and the United States but also a rising number of emerging and resuscitated powers that seek to take advantage of abundant resources. China, Brazil, India, Israel, Russia, Turkey, and many Gulf States have shown… Read More
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