China gets tough on North Korea sanctions
The two new additions to the sanctions regime have teeth and show how the Chinese line on sanctioning North Korea has evolved from deep suspicion to clear support
Asia
Assessing the South China Sea Policy under Xi Jinping
Tensions in the South China Sea are on the rise in the context of competing sovereignty claims and increased militarisation by all claimants, while…
23 Feb
Assessing the South China Sea Policy under Xi Jinping
What is China trying to achieve in the South China Sea?
China’s slowdown and Europe’s leverage
China's declining economic leverage offer Europe an opportunity for a coordinated rebalancing of the relationship between China and the EU
China, the yuan and the IMF: Double or quits?
China faces a stark choice: double down or back down on market reforms in order to achieve its long-held ambition of establishing the yuan…
China’s incomplete investments in the UN
Is China ready to play a bigger role at the United Nations?
How China and the West use terrorism
In the hands of some governments, terrorism has become a semantic weapon for pressuring others to cooperate in their struggles
29 Jan
Japan-China relations: what is at stake for the UK and Europe?
How can the UK and Japan foster a substantial agenda of strategic cooperation?
ECFR’s Scorecard 2016 Special – Asia & China
Agatha Kratz, Associate Fellow for ECFR's Asia and China programme, explains why the EU received a C+ for its foreign policies on Asia and…
European Foreign Policy Scorecard 2016
The sixth ECFR Foreign Policy Scorecard highlights the EU’s diminishing ability to influence its neighbours, and the neighbourhood’s growing impact on the EU