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Okay, Aral I., Xu Shutong, and A. M. Celal Sengör. "Coesite from the Dabie Shan eclogites, central China." European Journal of Mineralogy 1, no. 4 (August 31, 1989): 595–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/ejm/1/4/0595.

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Tabain, Marija, David Bradley, and Defen Yu. "Central Lisu." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 49, no. 1 (July 11, 2018): 129–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025100318000129.

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Lisu (ISO 639-2 lis) is spoken by just over a million members of the group of this name in south-western China, north-eastern Burma, northern Thailand and north-eastern India. It formerly also had other names used by outsiders, including Yeren (Chinese yeren ‘wild people’), and Yawyin in Burma and Yobin in India (both derived from the Chinese term). Other names included Lisaw from the Shan and Thai name for the group, also seen in the former Burmese name Lishaw. About two-thirds of the speakers live in China, especially in north-western Yunnan Province, but also scattered elsewhere in Yunnan and Sichuan. About a quarter live in the Kachin State and the northern Shan State in Burma, with a substantial number in Chiangmai, Chiangrai and other provinces of Thailand, and a few thousand in Arunachal Pradesh in India. It is also spoken as a second language by many speakers of Nusu, Anung, Rawang and others in north-western Yunnan and northern Burma. Lisu has almost completely replaced Anung in China and is replacing Lemei in China. The Lisu are one of the 55 national minorities recognised in China, one of 135 ethnic groups recognised in Burma, a scheduled (officially listed and recognised) tribe in India, and one of the recognised hill tribe groups of Thailand. Figure 1 shows a map of the area where Lisu is spoken.
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Cui, Jing, Xi Meng Lin, Hong Wei Zhang, Bian Li Xu, and Zhong Quan Wang. "Sparganosis, Henan Province, Central China." Emerging Infectious Diseases 17, no. 1 (January 2011): 146–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1701.101095.

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TREMBLAY, JEAN-FRANÇOIS. "CENTRAL CHINA GETS IN GEAR." Chemical & Engineering News 82, no. 17 (April 26, 2004): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cen-v082n017.p014.

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Ayson, Robert. "China Central? Australia's Asia Strategy." International Spectator 44, no. 2 (June 2009): 25–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03932720902909225.

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Kukla, George, and Zhisheng An. "Loess stratigraphy in Central China." Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 72 (January 1989): 203–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0031-0182(89)90143-0.

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Kukla, George. "Loess stratigraphy in central China." Quaternary Science Reviews 6, no. 3-4 (January 1987): 191–219. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0277-3791(87)90004-7.

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Varela Monterroso, Lucía. "Estructura mediática china: una aproximación al caso de China Central Television (CCTV)." Ámbitos. Revista Internacional de Comunicación, no. 51 (2021): 115–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/ambitos.2021.i51.09.

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China’s Emerging superpower has become a key piece on the global information board in recent years. This study aims to delve into the Chinese media structure, paying special attention on the public television group China Central Television. From a diacritical perspective, one seeks to understand the crossroads underlying it; a descriptive methodological approach focused on content analysis will take an in-depth look at how the media and the administration that control them will be controlled. In 2018, the Chinese government carried out a “State institutional reform plan and the Deepening Party” whose main objective is based on improving public opinion about China on a global scale. Therefore, the transnational media conglomerate China Media Group was created. It has segmented and currently controls three Chinese media giants: on a television level, with China Central Television (CCTV) and radio with China National Radio and China Radio International. Using a historiographic methodology and the implementation of a descriptive methodological approach we will deepen into the following objectives. First, we seek to glimpse the way Chinese media organization is. It is then when we intended to know the way of control carried out by the government related to information and media and will eventually address the thematic content of Chinese public television (CCTV). The Chinese government’s desire for expansion around the world is particularly important, which aims to export Chinese singularities and thus to become a counterpoint to the single control currently exercise by the United States globally. Communication is a key point for China in this expansion.
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Blank, Stephen. "Rusia, China, India y Asia Central." Comillas Journal of International Relations, no. 3 (August 31, 2015): 13–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.14422/cir.i03.y2015.002.

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La próxima entrada de India en la Organización de Cooperación de Shanghái puede ser importante para Delhi pero no puede deshacer el factor crítico de que China se está convirtiendo cada vez más en el actor extranjero más relevante en Asia Central y que Rusia está dependiendo de China hasta el punto de que su Ministerio de Defensa ha buscado formalmente una alianza con China en contra del terrorismo, «las revoluciones de colores» y los Estados Unidos. China está ganando en la competición por la influencia sobre Asia Central, India apenas es competitiva allí y Rusia está perdiendo terreno paulatinamente, principalmente debido a sus propios fracasos para acrecentar su capacidad económica-política, incluso antes de invadir Ucrania. Las consecuencias de esa jugada tan solo han acelerado el proceso de su creciente dependencia de China.
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Zhou, H. Y., H. W. Wang, S. N. Tan, Y. Chen, W. L. Wang, H. X. Tao, Z. C. Yin, Y. H. Zou, S. M. Ouyang, and B. Ni. "Genetic affinities of central China populations." Genetics and Molecular Research 13, no. 1 (2014): 616–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.4238/2014.january.28.7.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Central China"

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Perdue, Peter C. "China Marches West: Jacket cover." Harvard University Press, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9567.

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The China we know today is the product of vast frontier conquests of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by the expanding Qing empire. China Marches West tells the story of this unprecedented expansion and explores its consequences for the modern Chinese nation.
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Chen, Xinguang, and 陈新广. "Linking the central: new waterfront landscapedesign at Central, Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47541854.

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Safaya, Smriti. "Neotectonic faulting along the central Bangong-Jiang suture zone, central Tibet." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37105309.

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Serikbayeva, Assel. "China and Russia| Competition for Central Asian energy." Thesis, Webster University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1523365.

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Over the past two decades, a substantial literature has focused on the geopolitics of strategically located Central Asian energy supplies. Some analysts have even regarded the international competition over the regional oil and gas as a New Great Game among the developed West, Russia, and the emerging Asian energy importers. Much less attention has been paid to the means employed by the various competitors in achieving their interests in the Central Asian hydrocarbon sector. This Master Thesis analyzes the competition over the energy resources in Kazakhstan between two regional powers Russia and China for the period from 1991 to 2011. The study assesses the concept of power in its political, economic, and military terms as a way to achieve desired outcomes in the regional energy sector. The analysis concludes that economic statecraft is the dominant tool used in securing interests in the Central Asian oil and gas sector and thus allows China's economic clout to guarantee favorable energy deals. At the same time, the results suggest that Russia's soft power along with the traditional military engagements help to secure other strategic interests in the region apart from the energy sector.

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林偉明 and Wai-ming Willy Lam. "Community artscape in Central." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31985816.

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Hughes, Malcolm K., and Steven W. Leavitt. "Climate in North-Central China from tree-ring variables." Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research Archives. The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/302463.

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Liu, Zhiyao, and 刘志尧. "Intra-provincial inequality in post-reform China: a case study of Anhui Province, Central China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46541950.

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Leung, Chung-ping Louis, and 梁中平. "Hong Kong Central Library." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1995. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31982505.

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Karrar, Hasan Haider. "The new silk road diplomacy a regional analysis of China's Central Asian foreign policy, 1991-2005 /." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium access full-text, 2006. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?NR27796.

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Pharoah, Robin. "Visions of authority : leadership, power and heirarchy in Central China." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.417094.

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Books on the topic "Central China"

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1973-, Chen Pochan, ed. Ancient Central China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Rahul, Ram. China, Russia, and Central Asia. New Delhi: Vikas Pub. House, 1995.

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Manichaeism in Central Asia and China. Leiden: Brill, 1998.

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Griffith John: Apostle to Central China. Bridgend: Gwasg Bryntirion, 1998.

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Eder, Thomas Stephan. China-Russia Relations in Central Asia. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-03272-2.

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Alexander, Colin R. China and Taiwan in Central America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137480101.

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Laruelle, Marlène, Jean-François Huchet, Sébastien Peyrouse, and Bayram Balci, eds. China and India in Central Asia. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230114357.

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Yuyan, Zhang. Economic system reform in China. Helsinki: World Institute for Development Economics Research, 1989.

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Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (Calcutta, India), ed. Russia, China, and multilateralism in Central Asia. Delhi: Shipra, 2005.

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Lieberthal, Kenneth. Central Documents and Politburo Politics in China. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020.

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Book chapters on the topic "Central China"

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Phillips, Richard T. "Central Collapse." In China since 1911, 40–83. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24516-1_3.

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Eckel, Maike, and Tuong-An Nguyen. "Central South University." In Exkursion China 2018, 39–45. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-25316-5_9.

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Ray Chaudhuri, Ranajoy. "China." In Central Bank Independence, Regulations, and Monetary Policy, 223–54. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58912-5_9.

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Kassenova, Nargis. "China–Central Asia relations." In Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia, 202–17. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429057977-19.

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Auer, Stefan, and Thomas Stiegler. "CEEC–China." In China's Relations with Central and Eastern Europe, 83–99. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Routledge contemporary China series ; 172: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315226644-6.

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Zhu, Xufeng. "Central-Local Relations in China." In The Palgrave Handbook of Local Governance in Contemporary China, 139–56. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2799-5_7.

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Wang, Zhenmin. "The Powers of the Central Authorities." In China Academic Library, 143–79. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2322-5_6.

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Saich, Tony. "The Central Governing Apparatus." In Governance and Politics of China, 121–54. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-13046-4_5.

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Saich, Tony. "The Central Governing Apparatus." In Governance and Politics of China, 116–53. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-44530-8_5.

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Saich, Tony. "The Central Governing Apparatus." In Governance and Politics of China, 142–78. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-26786-3_6.

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Conference papers on the topic "Central China"

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CARROLL, CHRIS, XIAONIAN DUAN, CRAIG GIBBONS, RICHARD LAWSON, ALEXIS LEE, ANDREW LUONG, RORY MCGOWAN, and CHAS POPE. "CHINA CENTRAL TELEVISION NEW HEADQUARTERS, BEIJING, CHINA." In Tall Buildings from Engineering to Sustainability - Sixth International Conference on Tall Buildings, Mini Symposium on Sustainable Cities, Mini Symposium on Planning, Design and Socio-Economic Aspects of Tall Residential Living Environment. WORLD SCIENTIFIC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789812701480_0058.

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Dong, Meiya, Jumin Zhao, Dianqi Wang, Xin Ding, Zhaobin Liu, Biaokai Zhu, and Jin Yuze. "Central-Eye." In ACM TURC'20: ACM Turing Celebration Conference - China. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3393527.3393537.

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Fengyu-Wang and Xiujuan-jiang. "Discuss promoting central China rise countermeasures." In 2011 International Conference on Multimedia Technology (ICMT). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icmt.2011.6002755.

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Jiang, Tengyu, Xuezhen Xu, Xiji Chen, Huiqin Tian, Hua Zhang, Shuying Han, Yuming Li, and Jimin Yin. "Elimination of lateral core and reduction of central core for Nd:YAG crystal." In Photonics China '96, edited by Manfred Eich, Bruce H. T. Chai, and Minhua Jiang. SPIE, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.252971.

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Yang, Zhi. "RESOURCE POTENTIAL OF THE CONTINENTAL SHALE OIL IN CHINA." In Joint 53rd Annual South-Central/53rd North-Central/71st Rocky Mtn GSA Section Meeting - 2019. Geological Society of America, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2019sc-326473.

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Chen, Yuxuan, Mian Liu, and Hui Wang. "AFTERSHOCKS AND BACKGROUND SEISMICITY IN TANGSHAN AND THE REST OF NORTH CHINA." In Joint 55th Annual North-Central / 55th Annual South-Central Section Meeting - 2021. Geological Society of America, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2021nc-362873.

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ARNOLD, ROGER, and JIANZHONG LUO. "COLD TOLERANT PLANTATION EUCALYPTS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL CHINA." In Proceedings of the International Symposium. WORLD SCIENTIFIC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789812704504_0008.

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Lee, Ji-Eon. "Competition between China and Russia over Central Asia." In Mechanical Engineering 2016. Science & Engineering Research Support soCiety, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.14257/astl.2016.129.28.

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Kennedy, Thomas L. "Improving Rail Service Between China and Central Asia." In Second International Conference on Transportation and Traffic Studies (ICTTS ). Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/40503(277)18.

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Jingzhe Tu, Jun Xie, Deqiang Gan, Huanhai Xin, and Zhen Wang. "An AC/DC interaction analysis on the North China-Central China-East China UHV interconnected power grid." In 2012 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting. New Energy Horizons - Opportunities and Challenges. IEEE, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/pesgm.2012.6344786.

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Reports on the topic "Central China"

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Finkelstein, David M. China and Central Asia: Enduring Interests & Contemporary Concerns. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, September 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada530747.

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Hartse, H. E., S. R. Taylor, W. S. Phillips, and G. E. Randall. Regional seismic discrimination in central Asia with emphasis on western China. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), September 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/378792.

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Xie, J., L. Cong, and B. J. Mitchell. Lg Excitation, Attenuation and Source Spectral Scaling In Central Asia and China. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, January 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada305459.

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Pelham, Charlie L. US and China Competition for Influence in Central Asia - A Comparative Analysis. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, May 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada470863.

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Rumer, Eugene B. China, Russia and the Balance of Power in Central Asia. Strategic Forum, Number 223, November 2006. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, November 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada462753.

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Ritzwoller, Michael H., Nikolai M. Shapiro, Anatoli L. Levshin, Eric A. Bergman, and Eric R. Engdahl. Feasibility of the Use of 3D Models to Improve Regional Locations in W. China, Central Asia, and Parts of the Middle East. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, September 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada405941.

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Connell, Mary E., and Gregory Zalasky. CNA Workshop on Regional Issues: Russia, China and India: Strategic Interests in the Middle East. Organized by CNA for the U.S. Central Command. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, September 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada487961.

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Andrew, Joseph. Geologic Map of the Southern Slate Range and a Portion of the Central Garlock Fault, China Lake Naval Weapons Station, San Bernardino County, California. Geological Society of America, March 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/2014.dmch020.

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Jones, Emily, Beatriz Kira, Anna Sands, and Danilo B. Garrido Alves. The UK and Digital Trade: Which way forward? Blavatnik School of Government, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-wp-2021/038.

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The internet and digital technologies are upending global trade. Industries and supply chains are being transformed, and the movement of data across borders is now central to the operation of the global economy. Provisions in trade agreements address many aspects of the digital economy – from cross-border data flows, to the protection of citizens’ personal data, and the regulation of the internet and new technologies like artificial intelligence and algorithmic decision-making. The UK government has identified digital trade as a priority in its Global Britain strategy and one of the main sources of economic growth to recover from the pandemic. It wants the UK to play a leading role in setting the international standards and regulations that govern the global digital economy. The regulation of digital trade is a fast-evolving and contentious issue, and the US, European Union (EU), and China have adopted different approaches. Now that the UK has left the EU, it will need to navigate across multiple and often conflicting digital realms. The UK needs to decide which policy objectives it will prioritise, how to regulate the digital economy domestically, and how best to achieve its priorities when negotiating international trade agreements. There is an urgent need to develop a robust, evidence-based approach to the UK’s digital trade strategy that takes into account the perspectives of businesses, workers, and citizens, as well as the approaches of other countries in the global economy. This working paper aims to inform UK policy debates by assessing the state of play in digital trade globally. The authors present a detailed analysis of five policy areas that are central to discussions on digital trade for the UK: cross-border data flows and privacy; internet access and content regulation; intellectual property and innovation; e-commerce (including trade facilitation and consumer protection); and taxation (customs duties on e-commerce and digital services taxes). In each of these areas the authors compare and contrast the approaches taken by the US, EU and China, discuss the public policy implications, and examine the choices facing the UK.
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Chandrasekhar, C. P. The Long Search for Stability: Financial Cooperation to Address Global Risks in the East Asian Region. Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36687/inetwp153.

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Forced by the 1997 Southeast Asian crisis to recognize the external vulnerabilities that openness to volatile capital flows result in and upset over the post-crisis policy responses imposed by the IMF, countries in the sub-region saw the need for a regional financial safety net that can pre-empt or mitigate future crises. At the outset, the aim of the initiative, then led by Japan, was to create a facility or design a mechanism that was independent of the United States and the IMF, since the former was less concerned with vulnerabilities in Asia than it was in Latin America and that the latter’s recommendations proved damaging for countries in the region. But US opposition and inherited geopolitical tensions in the region blocked Japan’s initial proposal to establish an Asian Monetary Fund, a kind of regional IMF. As an alternative, the ASEAN+3 grouping (ASEAN members plus China, Japan and South Korea) opted for more flexible arrangements, at the core of which was a network of multilateral and bilateral central bank swap agreements. While central bank swap agreements have played a role in crisis management, the effort to make them the central instruments of a cooperatively established regional safety net, the Chiang Mai Initiative, failed. During the crises of 2008 and 2020 countries covered by the Initiative chose not to rely on the facility, preferring to turn to multilateral institutions such as the ADB, World Bank and IMF or enter into bilateral agreements within and outside the region for assistance. The fundamental problem was that because of an effort to appease the US and the IMF and the use of the IMF as a foil against the dominance of a regional power like Japan, the regional arrangement was not a real alternative to traditional sources of balance of payments support. In particular, access to significant financial assistance under the arrangement required a country to be supported first by an IMF program and be subject to the IMF’s conditions and surveillance. The failure of the multilateral effort meant that a specifically Asian safety net independent of the US and the IMF had to be one constructed by a regional power involving support for a network of bilateral agreements. Japan was the first regional power to seek to build such a network through it post-1997 Miyazawa Initiative. But its own complex relationship with the US meant that its intervention could not be sustained, more so because of the crisis that engulfed Japan in 1990. But the prospect of regional independence in crisis resolution has revived with the rise of China as a regional and global power. This time both economics and China’s independence from the US seem to improve prospects of successful regional cooperation to address financial vulnerability. A history of tensions between China and its neighbours and the fear of Chinese dominance may yet lead to one more failure. But, as of now, the Belt and Road Initiative, China’s support for a large number of bilateral swap arrangements and its participation in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership seem to suggest that Asian countries may finally come into their own.
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