According to the global financial centers index (2013), the top-four hubs are London and New York, which compete in a class of their own, as well as Hong Kong and Singapore. The Index relies on indices from World Bank, the OECD, and the Eco... [FULL TEXT]

Talk by Prof. Jiemian Yang, Chairman of SIIS Academic CouncilValdai Club Meeting, RussiaSeptember 16th, 2013 We are living in a fast changing world and China is a part of these fast and fundamental changes. Therefore, it seems proper to a... [FULL TEXT]

New Delhis plan to set up 35 new border posts on the China-India border made headlines in Indian media recently. More border police will also be dispatched to step up security along the border.The Indian media also reported that due to a se... [FULL TEXT]

Periphery policy is the core of China’s external strategy. It has served, in the last 60 years, for the national strategic goals to maintain national security and territorial integrity, to create stable periphery, and to build up frie... [FULL TEXT]

In the past sixty years of the PRC diplomatic history, the Chinese thinking, policies and practices have always been in the process of changes and readjustments along with the developments both at home and abroad. In the first decade of the... [FULL TEXT]

Along with the rapid development of Sino-Africa relationship, Chinese investments in Africa have attracted huge attentions, which not only contributed to development of both China and Africa, but also induced significant strategic and theor... [FULL TEXT]

The of “build on past achievements and open up new prospects for the new type of China-Africa strategic partnership” of the 5th Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) grasped the general trend of Sino-African relations transitions and pr... [FULL TEXT]