China’s Strategic Self-Reliance: Managing Interdependence Under Vision 2030
China’s economic strategy has long been shaped by Five-Year Plans, first introduced in the 1950s as a roadmap for national…
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Ten Years after the Arbitral Award – Rising Tensions, Grey Zone Tactics and an Uncertain Future for the South China Sea
Conference Report On 25 June 2026, IFAIR e.V. hosted the online panel discussion Dynamics in the South China Sea –…
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Small-State Strategy in the Foreign Policy of Singapore
Few states in the contemporary international system have navigated the structural constraints of smallness with as much strategic foresight as…
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China’s Peaceful Rise? – A Public Diplomacy Strategy
Carrot and stick: The question of power The transformation from threat to ‘benefactor’ has enabled China to talk the international…
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Race for Africa – China’s engagement on the African continent and the resulting challenges for the value-based trade policy of the European Union
1. Trade in Africa: Status Quo at stake? Chinas economic rise – its GDP-growth rate has fluctuated between six and…
