International Relations

Daily Clout: Be Wary of China’s Environmental Bargain

By Jianli Yang & Aaron Rhodes World environmentalists seemed encouraged when Chinese Communist Party boss Xi Jinping told the UN General Assembly that China will achieve zero net carbon emissions by 2060. But the Chinese state under Xi can hardly be considered a...
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China Faces Further Economic Downturn

By Deyu Wang and Zili Yang Chinese year of the rat does not seem to bode well for Xi-Jinping regime. With China recording the lowest GDP growth in 2019, in 30 years, at 6.1%, 2020 has only been worse due to the pandemic. In 2020, China's economic presence began to...
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Briefing Series: China captures tourism market in South Asia

By Dr. Deyu Wang & Anna Yupeng Chen Chinese tourists are one of the most widely travelled groups in the world and China has taken initiatives to promote tourism like granting 'Approved Destination Status' (ADS) to friendly nations, promotion of 'Red Tourism',...
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Briefing Series: Sino-Pak Organ Trade Thrives Under CPEC Umbrella

By Zili Yang and Amy Ma  A poverty-stricken Pakistani is unlikely to be a globe-trotter, but his heart, liver or kidney can travel across the world when ‘donated’. What is called “transplant tourism”[1] in the World Health Organization (WHO) parlance receives global...
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