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China and its territorial disputes: One approach does not fit all
Author: Andy Yee, Hong Kong International relations in Asia last year were characterised by conspicuous territorial disputes in the South China Sea — between China, the US and ASEAN — and the East...
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Autocratic peace and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
Author: Andy Yee, Hong Kong In June 2011, Astana, Kazakhstan will host the jubilee summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Over the past 10 years, the SCO has institutionalised economic,...
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US deployment of littoral combat ships to Singapore
Author: Andy Yee, Hong Kong In a speech made at this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue on 4 June, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates disclosed US plans to deploy new littoral combat ships (LCS) to...
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Vietnam and the Philippines: Assertiveness in the South China Sea
Author: Andy Yee, Hong Kong At a time when Chinese power is inchoate, Vietnam and the Philippines are becoming increasingly assertive in the South China Sea. China has tried both the ‘carrot’ and...
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India and Japan’s involvement in the South China Sea disputes
Author: Andy Yee, Hong Kong Geopolitical tensions continue to simmer in the South China Sea after the Obama administration’s declaration last year of a US ‘return to Asia’ stirred up regional dynamics....
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International cyber war: limits and possibilities
Author: Andy Yee, Hong Kong A recent Bloomberg report declared the China-based hacking of hundreds of US companies a ‘cyber Cold War’. In August 2010, after Japanese firm Mitsubishi Heavy Industries...
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Technology and culture to drive East Asia’s next digital revolution
Author: Andy Yee, Hong Kong East Asia has long been at the forefront of the hardware digital revolution, boasting some of the world’s most highly connected societies. And with a second digital...
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Taiwan’s transformation: embracing the internet economy
Author: Andy Yee, Hong Kong HTC, a leading Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer and once the most valuable company on the Taiwan stock exchange, has seen its market share and revenue plummeting since...
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The twin faces of Japanese nationalism
Author: Andy Yee, Hong Kong As George Orwell put it in Nineteen Eighty-Four, ‘[w]ho controls the past controls the future’. In contemporary Japan, national memory is an ideological battleground. The...
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For the internet age, Taiwan’s ICT industry needs a new model
Author: Andy Yee, Hong Kong Taiwan has long been a world leader in high-tech hardware manufacturing, with roots all the way back to the era of export-oriented industrialisation in the 1960s. Its...
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