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CA 52 – Your Investment, Our economy – Dec 2014
This latest quarterly issue of China Analysis, focuses on four rather technical aspects of China’s on-going economic reforms. Drawing on

JA 35 – Japan’s competitiveness and attractiveness issues in 2014: The high-stakes goals of the Abe government, between discourse and reality – Oct. 2014
In line with the topics introduced by the previous issue of Japan Analysis (focusing on Japan’s openness to the world),

CA 51 – China and Global Crises: The "Culture of Reluctance" – Oct 2014
Western hopes that China will take greater responsibility for dealing with international crises are likely to be dashed, according to

JA 34 – Perspectives on Japan’s openness to the world in 2014 – Aug 2014
The number and nature of international rankings published in large-circulation magazines have grown significantly in importance in the last fifteen

CA 49 – China’s Expanding Cyberspace – June 2014
China’s rapid economic growth has led to technical developments which have been overcoming bureaucratic rigidity by circumventing it. Chinese web-based

JA 33 – National and International Challenges for the Special Law on Protecting State Secrets – April 2014
The vote held on 6 December 2013 for the Special Law on Protecting State Secrets (tokutei himitsu hogo hô) has

CA 47 – China’s Neighbourhood Policy – Feb 2014
All geopolitical developments in Asia are closely linked to China’s new neighbourhood policy. Over the past decade, relations between China

JA 32 – A Constitutional Revision in Japan in 2014? – Dec 2013
Japan Analysis‘ 32nd issue comes at the end of a year of analysis of Japanese current affairs, dominated by interrogations

CA 46 – Law and Power in Xi’s China – Dec 2013
In China, official party statements tell only half the story. The power of China’s preeminent leader, Xi Jinping, relies on

JA 31 – Japan’s Position in the Overall Security Arrangements for the Asia-Pacific Region in 2013 – Oct 2013
In September 2012, the world discovered how much Sino-Japanese relations have deteriorated since the mid-2000s after violent anti-Japanese protests enflamed

CA 45 – The End of Non-Interference? – Oct 2013
China’s international role is changing. But the country is struggling to reconcile its traditional foreign policy of non-interference with its

JA 30 – What is the Political Agenda of Abe Shinzō’s Government? – Aug 2013
As the surveys announced, the Liberal-Democratic Party had a sweeping victory during the senatorial elections on the 21 July 2013.