Cover & Notes for Contributors

Boards, Contents & Contributors

Foreword

Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh, “State-Society Relations, Domestic-Foreign Policy Nexus: Recalibration for the “China Dream”?”

Belt and Road Initiative, Trade and Finance

Guorui Sun and Alex Payette, “The Sino-US Trade War: Survival, Domestic Reforms and the Belt and Road Initiative”

Rafael Ramos Codeço, “The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the New Development Bank and the Internationalisation of the Renminbi (RMB) – The New International Financial Institutions as Part of the Chinese Strategy to Build Up an International Reserve Currency”

Taiwan, New Southbound Policy and Cross-Strait Relations

Cal Clark, Alexander C. Tan and Karl Ho, “Ending Taiwan’s Economic Stagnation: The Implications of the Elections of Presidents Tsai and Trump”

Reymund B. Flores and Rachel Mary Anne A. Basas, “Chinese-Taiwanese-Southeast Asian Triangular Relations: On Building and Rebuilding Political and Economic Assertiveness in South China Sea”

The Elephant and the Dragon

Silvan Siefert, “Chinese and Indian Public Pension Systems and Universal Old-age Security in Times of Rapid Demographic Changes”

Obja Borah Hazarika, “To Cooperate, or Not to Cooperate: Assessing Pay-offs of the Belt and Road Initiative for India”

China in Africa

Gold Kafilah Lola and Evelyn S. Devadason, “The Engagement of China in Nigeria’s Oil Sector: Is the Transformation Positive?”

Lucy Anning and Clayton Hazvinei Vhumbunu, “Promoting Production Capacity Cooperation and Industrialization through Energy Infrastructure Development: The Case of China-Ghana Partnership”

ADIZ and the Chinese Military

Al Chukwuma Okoli and Uchenna Simeon, “Geo-Strategic Significance of East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone (ECS-ADIZ):  A Threat-Import Analysis”

Ching Chang, “The Chinese Military in National Security Policy-making”

Culture, Sustenance and Development

Tian Guang, Camilla Hong Wang, Kathy Tian and Liu Yu, “Food Consumption and Economic Development in Contemporary China”

Zhonghua Han, Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh and Wan Marhaini Wan Ahmad, “Does Religious Obligation of Muslims in Western China Influence Their Intention to Adopt Islamic Banking?”

Book Review

Elizabeth C. Economy (2018), The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State, reviewed by Amadea Bata-Balog