Using Economic Muscle, Beijing Sways Panama over Taiwan
July 10, 2017 4 min. read

President Tsai Ing-wen arriving in Panama City on her first overseas state trip in June 2016 (photo: The China Post) The days of countries paying tribute to China, in order to stay in China’s good graces, may long be gone, but nowadays the tribute appears to flow in the opposite direction.  Since opening up its […]

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Chinese ‘Trojan Horse’ – Investing in Greece, or Invading Europe? (Part I)
January 15, 2011 7 min. read
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Last fall, an article by the Economist praised the consolidation of railway companies in the former Yugoslavia as a development that will ease the movement of freight from Turkey to Central Europe.  The Economist went on to argue that a future rail tunnel under the Bosporus and plans between Turkey and China to link Beijing […]

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