Author: Vannarith Chheang, CICP This year marks the 10th anniversary of the China–ASEAN strategic partnership. Early this year, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited the ASEAN Secretariat and four ASEAN member countries to strengthen mutual understanding and strategic trust, and show support for ASEAN community building. Chinese Defence Minister Chang Wanquan also visited Brunei and [...]
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China and its Southeast Asian neighbours need more strategic capital
Posted on 23 May 2013.
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Japan Mayor’s Sex-Slave Comments Provoke Neighbors
Posted on 14 May 2013.
A Japanese local leader’s defense of the use of Chinese and Korean sex slaves to service Japanese soldiers during World War II as a “necessary” part of the war effort has drawn angry responses from Beijing and Seoul, aggravating tensions in the region that were already high after a series of earlier provocations. China’s economy [...]
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Rare Move: Telecom Rivals Team Up on App Payments
Posted on 10 May 2013.
China’s three state-run telecom carriers are not known for being cooperative. So it comes of something of a surprise that two of them are joining up to offer a single standardized payment plugin that could be used by the country’s many app developers and app stores. China has generally implemented reforms in a gradualist or [...]
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Can Japan turn to foreign workers?
Posted on 06 May 2013.
Author: Atsushi Kondo, Meijo University Japan is the only developed industrial democracy to have become rich without heavily relying on foreign workers during its period of advanced economic growth. The government has followed two basic immigration principles: it welcomed specialised and technical labour while examining carefully the admission of unskilled labour. In practice, this meant [...]
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India’s disputed ruling on pharmaceuticals and patents
Posted on 24 April 2013.
Author: Arvind Subramanian, PIIE On 1 April 2013, the Indian Supreme Court dismissed the attempt by Novartis, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, to obtain patent protection for a new version of the leukaemia drug Glivec. The court made its decision on the grounds that the drug is not a new medicine, but an adjusted version of [...]
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Bold Remembrances for a Chinese Reformer
Posted on 15 April 2013.
A surprising series of state media essays about former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang, whose death helped spark the Tiananmen protests of 1989, suggests China’s new president is not backing down on reform, writes CRT analyst Russ Moses. Annual inflows of foreign direct investment rose to nearly $108 billion in 2008. In 2006, China announced [...]
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Bird Flu Effect: Malaysian Rubber-Glove Stocks Take Off
Posted on 11 April 2013.
Over the past week, shares of major glove makers have soared as investors bet the disease will boost demand for the product. Still, the companies aren’t upbeat about a demand spike. Annual inflows of foreign direct investment rose to nearly $108 billion in 2008. One demographic consequence of the “one child” policy is that China [...]
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Silicon Valley Fights Restrictions on Chinese Tech
Posted on 06 April 2013.
Business groups raised alarms Thursday about a provision in the recently enacted government spending bill, making it harder for some federal agencies to buy technology made in China. In recent years, China has re-invigorated its support for leading state-owned enterprises in sectors it considers important to “economic security,” explicitly looking to foster globally competitive national [...]
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