Senior Research Fellow and Director of Ifri's Center for Asian Studies
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Research Fellow, Center for Asian Studies
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Senior Advisor, Center for Asian Studies
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This paper examines how China seeks to secure access to an ever growing level of natural resources from overseas. In its quest for resources necessary to fuel its economy, does China seek to bolster the development of international markets,...
China’s “One Belt, One Road” project, also known as the “New Silk Road”, aims to create a vast infrastructure network connecting three continents, with China playing the central role.
The Asia-Pacific region is now more than ever a priority for China’s foreign policy. The combined economic, energy and security interests concentrated in the region are of key importance for Beijing.
This research paper argues that, contrary to what is often believed, most of the Chinese middle class appears to be politically conservative, and may not challenge the current political order as much as is expected, for several reasons; first of all, because of its strong connection to the...
The upcoming Paris climate conference (COP21) is opening the door to a new post-2020 climate regime in which China and other large emitters will have to provide strong evidence of their domestic efforts in addressing global warming in the next century.
Nationalism appears to be an important part of the growing frictions between China and Japan.
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The alliance born of the Korean War trades the assurance of security for Seoul with a certain alignment with Washington.
Asia is now a nerve center for global economic activity and a theatre of some of the most pressing security concerns of our time. So important has Asia become to global affairs today, and ostensibly for the decades to come, that many have already dubbed the 21st Century as the “Asian Century”....
In this article, Willy Lam argues that the events of recent weeks represent a turning point in China-Hong Kong relations. The author analyses the multiple facets of the movement in Hong Kong and Beijing's response.
This seminar welcomes Ms. Teresa Cheng, Senior Counsel, Chartered Engineer, Chartered Arbitrator and Accredited Mediator. Ms. Cheng will speak on the role of Hong Kong in EU-China trade/commercial dispute resolution.
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The Centre Asie, Ifri invites you to a conference organized in two sessions on 21 June 2010.
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15 June 2010
17h00 - 18h30
This seminar is organized around Dr. Zhang Li, Professor in the Institute of South Asian Studies at Sichuan University in Chengdu and expert on China-South Asia connections and Chinese neighborhood diplomacy, and Dr. Jabin Jacob, Research Fellow at the...
Colloque annuel du Centre d'études asiatiques (CEA) du Graduate Institute à Genève, en collaboration avec le Centre Asie, Ifri.
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The China Program of the Asia Centre Ifri is please to welcome Dr. Kun-Chin LIN, Lecturer at the King's China Institute of King's College in London, Professor at National University of Singapore and in charge of a collaborative research project with the Chinese Academy of...
This discussion seminar will be introduced by QI Ye, professor and director of the School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University in Beijing. The seminar is part of Ifri's China Project research program for 2009 on
This international conference was co-organized with the Centre for European Studies at Fudan University (CES), the Chinese Society for EU Studies (CSEUS), and the Shanghai Institute for European Studies (SIES). It brought together a number of European and Chinese experts in order to analyse...
Andrew Scobell, Professor at the Bush School of Government and Public Service (Texas University), and editor of numerous books on Chinese defense strategy and military forces will make a presentation. The seminar will be chaired by Valérie Niquet, Director,...
This round table brings together three experts on Asia: Takashi Terada, Professor at the University of Waseda in Japan, Valérie Niquet, Director of the Centre Asie, Ifri, and Françoise Nicolas, Economist, Ifri.
À Pékin, les autorités célèbrent ce mercredi l'anniversaire de la création de la Chine communiste. Au même moment, des dizaines de milliers de Hongkongais profitent de ce jour férié pour descendre dans les rues et exiger le respect de leurs libertés publiques. À la mi...
Une histoire commune douloureuse, des îles disputées, les relations entre la Chine et le Japon sont pour le moins compliquées. Les tensions entre les deux géants sont toujours intenses, et la montée du nationalisme, dans les deux pays, joue un rôle important.
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Nearly three decades after Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping famously instructed his diplomats to "be good at maintaining a low profile and never claim leadership," a new generation of rulers has made it clear that they're ready to shed the humility and show off their country's...
China is increasingly asserting its influence economically and militarily throughout Asia. But its impact can also be felt further afield, through foreign aid and investment, particularly in Africa.
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It was 25 years ago that a lone young man in a white shirt defied the tanks rolling into Beijing's Tienanmen Square. A day earlier, authorities had started cracking down on unprecedented student protests. On the surface of it, one quarter century on, the civil liberties...
La Chine et sa région au programme du débat du jour.
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Alors que des manifestants vietnamiens ont incendié et pillé des usines chinoises installées au Vietnam, le gouvernement chinois accuse Hanoï de soutenir ces mouvements de violence.
... Le président chinois Xi Jinping est en France pour une visite d’État de trois jours. Une visite à dominante économique : 50 contrats ont été signés. Mais les relations économiques entre les deux pays restent faibles, surtout comparé à celles avec l'Allemagne. Que pouvons...
Alors que le président chinois est arrivé aujourd'hui à Lyon pour une visite d’Etat de 3 jours en France, Alice Ekman décrypte les bouleversements, sociaux et économiques qui secouent l'Empire du Milieu.
