China
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China and Industrial Policy (Part II): The Future of an Idea, Its Implications and Consequences
Written in conjunction with Ian Wan. You can read Part I here. Industrial policy has recently regained prominence in policymakers’ minds, and not in small part due to China. Whilst industrial policy has always been contentious in an era dominated by capitalist market economies rather than state planning economies, its…
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China and Industrial Policy (Part I): The History of an Idea, Its Rationale and Consequences
Written in conjunction with Paul Meyer. You can read Part II here. Industrial policy has recently regained prominence in policymakers’ minds, and not in small part due to China. Whilst industrial policy has always been contentious in an era dominated by capitalist market economies rather than state planning economies, its…
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An Insignificant Sympathy: Assessing Overseas Chinese Influence Operations in Malaysia
Over the last two decades, analysts have increasingly described the PRC’s “Qiaowu” as the “largest diasporic influence operation in history,” with increasingly alarmist examples of the Overseas Chinese manipulating local politics in Europe, the US, and Australia. In the case of Malaysia, the Overseas Chinese exhibit contradictory tendencies. On one…
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Beyond Electric: China’s Strategic Pivot to Autonomous Driving Technology
China stands at the forefront of autonomous vehicle innovation, propelled by fierce market competition and supportive regulations that encourage rapid technological advancement. As electric vehicles (EVs) have become ubiquitous in cities like Guangzhou, Chinese automakers are now pivoting toward autonomous driving technology as their primary competitive differentiator, potentially transforming not…
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20th Century Regional Security: A Look Back at Post-War Vietnamese Nationalism and Southeast Asia
As we return to regional politics and relations focused on ideas of isolationism, regional rivalry and geopolitical control, nationalism is once again becoming a dominant trend of international politics across many regions and political ideas. In an attempt to understand how truly underlying such ideas of nationalism are on regional…
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