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Global Developments and Analysis: Weekly Monitor (12-18 February 2024)

Economic China puts high expectations on ‘new productive forces’ in search for sustainable growth engines In recent communications, China’s leaders and media have frequently used the phrase “new productive forces” when discussing how to revitalise...

February 27 , 2024
North Korea’s ICBM Launch Worrying – Part I

On 18 November 2022, North Korea successfully test-fired a Hwasong-17 (or Hwasongpho-17) intercontinental-range ballistic missile (ICBM), adding further to the already existing tensions and security threats in the Korean Peninsula. This launch was...

December 1 , 2022
Fresh Challenge from North Korea with ICBM launch

Introduction On 24 March 2022, North Korea ended a self-imposed moratorium on testing long range missiles and launched a new kind of ICBM for the first time since 2017. The launch was seen as a challenge and to assess South Korea’s President-elect...

April 13 , 2022
Hopes for Peace Return in the Korean Peninsula as inter-Korean Military Hotlines re-established

The liberal and dovish South Korean President Moon Jae-in is a gutsy leader who does not easily give up to make peace with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, despite the latter’s maverick behaviour and unpredictable policy choices that once agreed...

August 10 , 2021
Tensions Return to the Korean Peninsula

At a time when the world attention is focussed in battling the Covid-19, two communist nations – China and North Korea – are engaged in different terrains as if to deflect the focus from containing Covid-19. Both are unfortunate developments and...

June 19 , 2020
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