Asia's economyGlobal governanceRussia & China
  • Asia's fading economic miracle
    Policy brief by George Magnus, 11 January 2013
    Asia's fading economic miracle
  • Russia, China and global governance
    Report by Charles Grant, 29 February 2012
    Russia, China and global governance
  • True partners? How Russia and China see each other
    Report by Dmitri Trenin, 13 February 2012
    True partners? How Russia and China see each other
  • Can the EU learn to live with Chinese mercantilism?
    Insight by Philip Whyte, 29 October 2007

    Not long after its launch, the euro was famously dismissed by a disgruntled currency trader as a “toilet currency”. How things have changed.
  • State of the Union: The good deal
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    The Wall Street Journal, 25 June 2007

    The deal in Brussels on a new treaty this weekend is good news for those who hope the EU can become a more confident and effective contributor to global security.
  • Industrial policy – back to the future?
    Bulletin article by Simon Tilford, 01 June 2007

    In his book ‘Testimony’, Nicolas Sarkozy, the newly elected French president, wrote that his finest hour as finance minister of France was the government’s rescue of Alstom, a French maker of high-speed trains and telecoms equipment.
  • The EU should not ignore the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation
    Policy brief by Oksana Antonenko, 11 May 2007

    The Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) is an organisation of increasing strategic importance. It brings together Russia, China and four Central Asian states.
  • The EU, the US and Taiwan
    Insight by Charles Grant, 16 April 2007

    Taiwanese domestic politics is nasty and messy. The two main political forces – the KMT, which believes in ‘one China’, and the DPP, which leans towards an independent Taiwan – hate each other with venom that is unmatched in most other functioning democracies.
  • The world in 2020
    Insight by Mark Leonard, 23 January 2007

    By 2020, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, the Chinese economy could overtake the US to become the largest in the world, at least when measured using purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates. India is expected to grow rapidly to become the third biggest economy.
  • Climate Change: Western business can help China and India
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 17 November 2006

    We Europeans are proud pioneers in combating climate change. But what we do at home is almost irrelevant unless we persuade and help China and India to limit emissions.
  • A compact between China and the European Union
    CER - FPC - DGAP - Chinese Academy of Social Sciences - Asia Centre, Briefing note by Charles Grant, 05 September 2006

    Both the European Union and China are committed to giving the Sino-European relationship a genuinely strategic dimension. Since they announced this objective in 2004, there has been a blossoming of 'strategic dialogues', both bilateral and multilateral.