Our final panel today will examine how China Growing military presence and influence in south or Southeast Asia and africa Furthers Development of expeditionary abilities. We will start with greg pulley, he is the rector of Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative and at the center of Strategic International studies. He oversees research on u. S. Foreign policy in the asiapacific with a particular focus on the maritime domain and the countries of Southeast Asia. He is the author of the South China Seas and focus clarifying the limits of maritime dispute. Coauthor of multiple other works. He will focus on chinas activities in south, Southeast Asia. Next we hear from [inaudible], am i pronouncing it [inaudible] Research Associated at the African Center for strategic studies at the National Defense university. He is an expert on china africa relationships partnerships between the africa and east asia and the African Security issues. His forthcoming book, manuscript examines the influence of
Sovereignty and that is an issue that is very close to the government here in beijing ok lets take a closer look at the white paper Andrew Thompson as a visiting Senior Research fellow at the National University of Singapore Still equine new school of Public Policy and joins us from singapore so as we heard our correspondent there he was talking about china now focusing on sovereignty as a huge part of its white paper can you explain why this has become the focus for chinas Defense Strategy now. Well i think if you look at the last paper in 2015 it really focused on chinas maritime interests and its security situation on its periphery and with its neighbors this paper much more is turning towards internal issues i mean its actually quite different than the 2015 paper in that it really reflects xi jinping has continued grasp of authority and his continued oversight of the p. L. O. So it also very much underscores the is a party army its the armed wing of the communist party and its very
For boj officials given you have the week yen that could be adding to the inflation story but still they are not likely to hike at this point. Weekends supports the exporters and today weak yen supports the exporters. And we saw sharp losses in the tech sector. Lets look at korea at the start here because we see it moving a little higher, trade data dropping, first 20 days of april numbers for trade and exports rising 11 for the year, positive for korea and a barometer for global trade as it could play into the story korean won has been against the backdrop very much of king dollars so just recapping the trade numbers for the first 20 days of april, exports up for the year and imports gaining as well and we have as i said again the first 20 days of april so a reversal from a contraction the month prior. Paul australia has just opened for trade and it is a stagnant open but we see modest again modest gains. A theme we saw towards the end of last week even though losses on asx gold stock
Relationship between china and taiwan. From the Global Taiwan Institute this is just over hour. All right. Okay. Well good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the Global Taiwan Institute. My name is russell hsiao, im the executive director here at gti. Gti is a 501 c 3 thinktank dedicated to taiwan policy research and analysis. Our mission is to enhance the u. S. Taiwan relationship through public education. We undertake several major programs that include a weekly publication called the global taiwan with brief, where we invite experts to contribute timely articles. We also have a Seminar Series that you are all participating in today where we invite practitioners as well as scholars to focus on current developments related to policy issues that affect the u. S. Taiwan relationship. Coming up very shortly we will be hosting our inaugural annual symposium on september 14th and this is going to be our flagship event. Were expecting a large turnout of people within government as well as acad
On december 31st, a rocket force in charge of Nuclear Tipped Missiles was established. As well as the Strategic Support force responsible for responding to cyber warfare. The country then disbanded the militarys four headquarters responsible for staff, politics, logistics and armaments and replaced them with 15 new agencies. The general Staff Headquarters was also replaced with a new joint staff department, which commands integrated operations of ground naval and air forces. Observers say that under the previous system, the four headquarters each held strong influence. So xi eliminated them along with his other recent moves to prent ctionalism and shore up power. The japanese government says one of the chinese ships that entered japans territorial waters in late december was a remodeled warship. Tokyo has lodge a formal protest with beijing. One of the ships spotted on december 26th in the East China Sea was equipped with what appeared to be four heavy machine guns. Its the first time