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China Analysis

A New Taiwanese Representative Office in Aix-en-Provence: A French...

Jean-François Di Meglio, President of Asia Centre, and Maëlle Lefèvre, researcher at Asia Centre (Translation: Hadrien Saperstein)   Taiwan, an island of twenty-three million inhabitants, is a de facto independent country claimed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) that since 1949 considers the island an integral part of its territory, and which promises to bring Formosa back willingly or by force into its fold. More recently, tensions between Taiwan and China accentuated after Tsai Ing-wen was re-elected into power in 2016 and later augmented to a new magnitude due…

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L’Indo-Pacifique à l’heure du Covid-19 : une affirmation des blocs

La contribution ci-dessous, sous la plume de talents montants de nos équipes, prend acte et “choisit” délibérément d’entériner l’émergence concrète du concept d’Indo-Pacifique. Mainte fois évoqué, souvent contesté, il est parfois même traversé de contradictions créées par les acteurs de cette région. Ce “chiffon rouge” brandi sous les yeux de Pékin a sans doute d’autant plus lieu d’être que la situation actuelle est chargée, à la suite des bouleversements liés à la pandémie, de signaux, forts ou faibles (voir le commentaire annexé du sommet de l’ASEAN) d’une montée des tensions…

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Asie centrale : une crise peut en cacher une autre

Chloé C. Milhé L’Asie centrale n’a pas été épargnée par la crise sanitaire actuelle. La plupart des pays de la région font pourtant état de chiffres officiels peu élevés en comparaison de leurs voisins. Proches de la réalité (ou pas… ?), ils sont pourtant sujets à de nombreuses interrogations lorsque l’on sait qu’aucun cas n’a été officiellement déclaré depuis le début de la crise par le Turkménistan par exemple. La crise du Covid-19 n’est d’ailleurs pas la seule situation qui suscite des préoccupations dans la région. Elle n’a été au…

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Works

The Belt and Road Initiative and Global Governance

With the contribution of Asia Centre’s president : Jean-François Di Meglio This timely book examines the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), assessing its effect on the international economic order and global governance more broadly. Through a variety of qualitative case studies the book investigates the implementation of the BRI and evaluates its development outcomes both for China and the countries it interacts with under the initiative, along with its international implications. Chapters discuss as-yet-unexplored cases from the ground in brand new studies based on fieldwork by leading academics, as well…

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Publications

Australia, France, China approaches to the Indo-pacific

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 grows in the area (namely through massive infrastructure projects part of the worldwide “Belt and Road Initiative”), the Indo-Pacific concept reinforces around preoccupations shared by the Quad democracies – mainly the importance of preserving the “rules” shaping today’s economic environment. Mr Steve Howard, Secretary General of the Global Foundation and…

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The Republic of Korea: key actor in North-East Asia

Monday, November 25 2019 Paris – Hôtel d’Evreux, Place Vendôme   A...

Publications

Memo – China-Pakistan relations: “China Pakistan Economic...

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.

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Southeast Asia Observatory

Democracy, Indonesian Military and 2019 Elections – Dr. Yohanes Sulaiman

by Dr. Yohanes Sulaiman, Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the Universitas Jenderal Achmad Yani in Cimahi, Indonesia. Production of the Southeast Asia Observatory, cycle 2019-2020, June 2019 Is there a growing militarization of Indonesian democracy? This article argues that at this point, the military as an organization does not willingly and independently interfere in civilian affairs. Rather, the military’s involvement should be put in its context, notably the weaknesses of successive civilian governments, especially Joko Widodo administration, that forces it to ask for the military for…

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Events

Memo – Maritime and Environmental Security in the South China sea: a...

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 island-building campaign in the Spratly Islands region, building three massive military bases and four smaller surveillance outposts within the span of two years.To accomplish this, it engaged in massive reclamation activities that excavated sand and other materials from surrounding seabed, buried entire coral reef structures and atolls, packed and paved…

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Southeast Asia Observatory

2019 Election in Thailand and Year Forward – Dr. Punchada Sirivunnabood

by Dr. Punchada Sirivunnabood, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Mahidol University, Thailand. Southeast Asia Observatory, cycle 2019-2020, Mai 2019 The 2019 General Election is the first election after over five years of a military regime led by Prayut Chan-ocha. After six delays, the Election Commission of Thailand (ECT) set the election for 24 March 2019 from 8 am to 5 pm. This election decided the MPs and Prime Minister of Thailand. Since the March 24 election, the weeks have been filled with confusion, uncertainty, and…

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