Thursday, 21 November 2019 Paris, 75115 Based on a “shared heritage” in the Pacific, French President Emmanuel Macron had outlined in 2018 projects to strengthen cooperation with India and Australia upon security, economy and environment matters. As Chinese influence…
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On the margin of the 2019 UN General Assembly, in a conversation with Pakistan Prime minister Imran Khan held at the Council for Foreign Relations, New York, Richard Haass, the Council’s President, pointed Pakistan as being « on the short list of countries receiving most Belt and Road Initiative investiments » and therefore addressed Prime Minister Imran Khan with two substantial questions: firstly, will this state of affairs not dramatically exacerbate Pakistan’s debt challenge, given the nature of Chinese support ? Furthermore, how does Pakistan claim to retain full sovereignety while inviting China to lead projects on such a scale?
Prime Minister Imran Khan’s answer simply outlined the great opportunity that China represents for Pakistan.
Memo, roundtable n°7, January 24, 2019 from the Southeast ObservatoryWith Prof. Jay Batongbacal (University of the Philippines, Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea, Manila)Memo by Tom Eisenchteter In 2014, the People’s Republic of China embarked on an…
Memo of the annual seminar of the Observatory, 21 January, 2019, in partnership with Irsem. With Prof. Jay Batongbacal (University of the Philippines, Institute for Maritime Affairs and law of the Sea), Dr Vannarith Chheang (ISEAS-NTU-AVI), Emmanuel Dubois de Prisque…
Memo to the roundtable on 22nd May, 2018, Southeast Asia Observatory With Benjamin Ang, Senior Fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, chaired by Jean-François Di Meglio, President, Asia Centre Memo by Tom Eisenchteter Introduction :…
Memo to the roundtable on March, 15, 2018, Observatory of Southeast Asia By Dr. Aries A. Arugay, Associate Professor, University of the Philippines-Diliman, chaired by CF Marianne Péron-Doise, IRSEM / Associate Fellow, Asia Centre. Introduction Performative populism and Duterte’s approach…
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Roundtable n°16 of the China Observatory, 13 February, 2017, with Rafaello Pantucci (director of International Security Studies at RUSI (Royal United Services Institute)) While Europe has been engulfed in fear of growing terrorist threats over the past few years, China…
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Roundtable n°15 of the China Observatory, 25 January, 2017, with Pr. Anne-Marie Brady (Wilson Center, Washington DC / University of Canterbury, New Zealand) There is a sense of crisis in the Pacific Ocean, as the level of China’s ambitions have reached…
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Note n°15 of the China Observatory, Memo for the 12th Sino-European Strategic Dialogue that took place in Beijing on December, 15th 2017, in partnership with the CICIR. Political Outlook in both China and the EU International Geo-strategic and Political Issues…