Pub Date : 2022-11-26DOI: 10.1080/13567888.2022.2161246
Since August 2021, Chinese leaders have aimed to reduce economic inequality at home through a ‘common prosperity’ campaign. But Beijing’s attempts to reduce the income-inequality gap have worsened other fundamental problems in the Chinese economy related to its growth model, which relies on exports and investment rather than household consumption.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-26DOI: 10.1080/13567888.2022.2167305
French President Emmanuel Macron has long emphasised the importance of European countries strengthening their security and defence capabilities, which would enable them to pursue their strategic interests autonomously. He has also pursued a dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin with the purpose of building ‘a new architecture’ of security and trust in Europe. After Putin launched a war against Ukraine in February 2022, Macron could have led the European response to the crisis in terms of military assistance. Instead, the mismatch between some of Macron’s words and actions has weakened his standing among his European allies, and it is not clear that it has raised his standing as an interlocutor in the eyes of Putin.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-21DOI: 10.1080/13567888.2022.2158570
In November 2022, representatives from Taiwan and the United States took early steps towards beginning negotiations over a trade agreement that would focus on lifting non-tariff trade barriers. It is possible that an agreement will be signed by the end of 2023. If a deal is reached, however, ratification by both countries, and then implementation, will take years longer. A trade deal would serve as an additional pillar of the US–Taiwan relationship and would complement the increasing cooperation between Washington and Taipei on technology issues.
{"title":"Trade negotiations between Taiwan and the United States","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/13567888.2022.2158570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13567888.2022.2158570","url":null,"abstract":"In November 2022, representatives from Taiwan and the United States took early steps towards beginning negotiations over a trade agreement that would focus on lifting non-tariff trade barriers. It is possible that an agreement will be signed by the end of 2023. If a deal is reached, however, ratification by both countries, and then implementation, will take years longer. A trade deal would serve as an additional pillar of the US–Taiwan relationship and would complement the increasing cooperation between Washington and Taipei on technology issues.","PeriodicalId":38903,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Comments","volume":"28 1","pages":"iii - v"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43905510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-21DOI: 10.1080/13567888.2022.2159551
The idea of ‘friend-shoring’ supply chains is gaining purchase among economic policymakers concerned about relying on geopolitical competitors for accessing critical materials and technologies. But policies that have been implemented or are under consideration to shift existing supply chains towards reliance on allies and partners will face several challenges in practice. For example, critical goods are distributed unevenly globally and in a relatively fixed manner, without respect to political considerations. Thus, scarcity and competition for access to resources will serve as a test of international of friendships and whether friend-shoring policies survive their early implementation periods.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-21DOI: 10.1080/13567888.2022.2157960
Leontios Ierodiakonou
The prospect for reunifying the island of Cyprus is fading, with hardliners in charge of the ethnically Turkish north and, in 2023, the likely election of Nikos Christodoulides as president of the ethnically Greek Republic of Cyprus in the south. Ankara has played a more active role in the political affairs of Northern Cyprus since the collapse of negotiations over reunification in 2017 and has embraced a two-state solution to the crisis. Meanwhile, many Greek Cypriots in the south are content with the status quo, seeing reunification as too politically and economically risky.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-21DOI: 10.1080/13567888.2022.2159705
Russia has predictably blocked the United Nations Security Council from taking action in response to Russia’s invasion and ongoing war in Ukraine. But UN Secretary-General António Guterres and several UN agencies have taken steps to mitigate the political and economic fallout of the war, and a solid majority of UN members have condemned Moscow’s actions.
{"title":"The UN and Russia’s war in Ukraine","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/13567888.2022.2159705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13567888.2022.2159705","url":null,"abstract":"Russia has predictably blocked the United Nations Security Council from taking action in response to Russia’s invasion and ongoing war in Ukraine. But UN Secretary-General António Guterres and several UN agencies have taken steps to mitigate the political and economic fallout of the war, and a solid majority of UN members have condemned Moscow’s actions.","PeriodicalId":38903,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Comments","volume":" ","pages":"viii - ix"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45041912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-14DOI: 10.1080/13567888.2022.2153500
Global energy markets have experienced shocks from the coronavirus pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine. Moscow may have thought, upon launching the war, that its energy exports would be a strength that would both restrain Europe’s reaction and serve as a financial lifeline to the rest of the world in the face of economic sanctions imposed by the West. This gamble did not pay off, however, partly because of the pace of change taking place in energy markets. Indeed, it now looks as if energy exports may no longer serve as an engine of growth and vitality for the Russian economy.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-14DOI: 10.1080/13567888.2022.2157625
Japan enacted a far-reaching economic-security law in May 2022. The law has a two-year phased implementation schedule, which will give Japanese companies time to adapt to the law’s requirement that they consider economic security above market efficiency as part of their decision-making processes. This will entail securing supply chains from disruption due to geopolitical conflict by indigenising them or by relying on allies or partners rather than on China. These requirements will have the greatest effect on Japanese companies in the technology sector and on those that work on critical infrastructure.
{"title":"Japan’s Economic Security Promotion Act and the implications for businesses","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/13567888.2022.2157625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13567888.2022.2157625","url":null,"abstract":"Japan enacted a far-reaching economic-security law in May 2022. The law has a two-year phased implementation schedule, which will give Japanese companies time to adapt to the law’s requirement that they consider economic security above market efficiency as part of their decision-making processes. This will entail securing supply chains from disruption due to geopolitical conflict by indigenising them or by relying on allies or partners rather than on China. These requirements will have the greatest effect on Japanese companies in the technology sector and on those that work on critical infrastructure.","PeriodicalId":38903,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Comments","volume":" ","pages":"viii - ix"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44486331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-14DOI: 10.1080/13567888.2022.2153499
The US Army released an important new version of its doctrine for conducting multi-domain operations – Field Manual No. 3-0 – in October 2022. These are operations that require the coordinated use of army capabilities and those from other service branches in more than one physical domain (land, sea, air, space or cyberspace) or dimension (physical, human or informational). The doctrine is more specific than previous versions and focuses largely on threats that might be posed by China and Russia. Some questions remain unanswered, however, in part because the doctrine does not distinguish between Chinese and Russian approaches to warfare, which are different at the high-tactical and operational levels.
{"title":"The US Army’s multi-domain-operations doctrine","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/13567888.2022.2153499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13567888.2022.2153499","url":null,"abstract":"The US Army released an important new version of its doctrine for conducting multi-domain operations – Field Manual No. 3-0 – in October 2022. These are operations that require the coordinated use of army capabilities and those from other service branches in more than one physical domain (land, sea, air, space or cyberspace) or dimension (physical, human or informational). The doctrine is more specific than previous versions and focuses largely on threats that might be posed by China and Russia. Some questions remain unanswered, however, in part because the doctrine does not distinguish between Chinese and Russian approaches to warfare, which are different at the high-tactical and operational levels.","PeriodicalId":38903,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Comments","volume":"28 1","pages":"i - ii"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46999497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-14DOI: 10.1080/13567888.2022.2153525
Pakistan is locked in a three-way contest for power between populist former prime minister Imran Khan, who survived an assassination attempt in November 2022, military leaders and members of the current governing coalition, formed by traditional political parties representing continuity rather than change.
{"title":"Pakistan’s fraught political scene","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/13567888.2022.2153525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13567888.2022.2153525","url":null,"abstract":"Pakistan is locked in a three-way contest for power between populist former prime minister Imran Khan, who survived an assassination attempt in November 2022, military leaders and members of the current governing coalition, formed by traditional political parties representing continuity rather than change.","PeriodicalId":38903,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Comments","volume":"28 1","pages":"v - vii"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47244427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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