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Founded in 2005, Asia Centre is an independent research institute that holds debates and issues publications on matters relating to international, strategic, economic relations, as well as the political and social transformations underway in the Asia-Pacific region. At the crossroads of university research as well as public and private decision-making, Asia Centre researchers identify critical regional issues and analyse them in-depth, taking into consideration both local and global dimensions. Asia Centre’s programs are developed with a vast network of partners, companies and major specialist centres in Europe, North America and Asia. The Centre carries out joint operations with these groups, for a better interpretation of ideas and issues. The conclusions of these meetings, such as the results of the work carried out using original sources by our researchers, are widely distributed through the Centre’s publications as well as through international journals, books and media.

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Taiwan cooking oil scandal: Why Isn’t Beijing Adding Fuel to the Fire? • Isabelle Feng

31 July 2026 No Comments

In this new piece, Isabelle Feng looks back at the tainted cooking oil scandal that has affected Taiwan for several weeks, and at Beijing’s measured response to the affair. She examines the protests held in Taipei on 25 July, the coverage of the event by Chinese state media, and reactions observed on Chinese social media. She puts this episode in perspective alongside the history of food safety scandals in mainland China and the question of freedom to protest on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

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JA 25 – The Possibility of Radical Change in Japan in 2012? – Feb 2012

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At the World Economic Forum held in Davos on January 26th, Prime Minister Noda Yoshihiko stated that he was determined to steer his country on a path of administrative, fiscal and social reform destined to redress Japan’s financial situation; and he asserted that the Japanese economy was recovering from the 11 March 2011 Fukushima disaster. Thus, many events reported recently in the country’s news media indicate the need for structural reforms that could significantly modify Japan’s economic and social profile in the next few years.

– CLOSE UP ON THE NEWS – 

The Olympus affair and the limitations of the Japanese model of corporate governance (Adrienne Sala)

The metropolitan project of Hashimoto Tôru, the new mayor of Ôsaka (Arnaud Grivaud, in collaboration with Sophie Buhnik)

– POINTS OF NEWS– 

Tarô Jimbô, “Media Assessments: what the national press expects from joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership” (Media Hihyô: Zenkokushi “taibô” no TPP sanka), Sekai (translated from the Japanese by César Castellvi)

“Getting over an outdated conflict between the governing majority and the opposition, in order to face the United States, China, and Russia on an equal footing”, Chûô Kôron (translated from the Japanese by Yann Favennec)

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