• 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Bulletin article by Mark Leonard, 03 April 2006

    Until now EU policy towards China has focused mainly on domestic issues: opening up China’s economy, protecting intellectual property, improving respect for human rights, and securing the readmission of illegal migrants.

  • Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 February 2006

    Most EU governments take very little interest in India. That is likely to change. According to Goldman Sachs’ (admittedly speculative) research, over the next half century India will grow faster than any other large national economy.

  • Opinion piece by Mark Leonard
    The Daily Telegraph, 26 January 2006

    Google, the popular search engine that floated on the stock market last year, has not abandoned its corporate motto: "Don't be evil".