China

China’s 21st Century Maritime Silk Road: Implications for the UK

Veerle Nouwens

This Occasional Paper explores China's Maritime Silk Road in economic and political terms, its maritime routes, its key destinations and example projects, and its potential strategic implications for the UK

"“China is going to have to go some way to soothe concerns people have about them,” said Malcolm Chalmers, an analyst with the Royal United Services Institute think-tank "

World security tensions take centre stage in Munich

Project Sandstone Report 1: The Jie Shun Incident

James Byrne and Tom Plant

This report examines potential connections between Chinese state-owned enterprises and the North Korean arms trade.

Charting Britain’s Moves in the South China Sea

John Hemmings

A British naval presence in the South China Sea strengthens global security and Britain’s global role. But it must be matched with a more systematic approach to the region, and to China’s defiance of legal norms.

"“This year, China is really the country everyone is talking about,” Karin von Hippel, the head of the Royal United Services Institute in London, told Today’s WorldView. “China is a growing power and is obviously a threat in some ways, but at the same time, it’s so big and will be so powerful that we can’t treat China as an enemy. We all have to figure out ways to work with it.” "

The lesson of Davos: China has arrived

China’s Growing Pains: A Review of 40 Years of Reform

Charles Parton

Now that Chinese President Xi Jinping has consolidated power within the Chinese Communist Party, the expectation is that he will turn his gaze to serious reform efforts needed to sustain the country’s rise. Changing an economic and social system described by Chinese leaders as ‘unsustainable’ without provoking instability – to be accomplished with the Party managing to stay in power and outrun...