East Asia
Public budgets

Harmful government expenditure

Fossil fuel subsidies are unsustainable in both environmental and budgetary terms

New Silk Road

Clean at home, dirty abroad

China massively invests in coal power in the Belt and Road countries

Political science

Access denied

Springer Nature’s decision to block access to politically controversial content in China has global ramifications

Weapons of mass destruction

Nuclear obsession

North Korea’s leadership is keen on weapons of mass destruction

German science publisher caves in to Chinese censorship

Springer Nature blocks access to controversial topics

Governance

Democracy is better

Why dictatorship is less efficient than apologists want us to think

Chinese foreign policy

Silk road across the Indian Ocean

China is building trade-related infrastructure in Africa

CUP changes stance and stands by China Quarterly

Cambridge University leaders insist on academic freedom

Cambridge University Press is sacrificing academic freedom

The quest for truth is more important than the Chinese regime’s wishes

Law of the sea

Pivoting Philippines

ASEAN leaders have long resisted China’s claims to the South China Sea, but the Philippines’ new president is strangely ambivalent

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