Executive Summary The paper discusses the impact and implications of the ASEAN (Association of South Eastern Asian Nations) in a potential Korean unification. A potential unification of Korea as well as a single transformation process in North Korea are associated to the question of economic integration in Northeast Asia The…

Latest ASEAN summit attended directly, after G-20 summit in China, by US president Barak Obama (his first visit to Laos) was not very successful. Neither for USA, when Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte directly attacked USA attitude in the region, nor for ASEAN organization as a whole. There are different interests…

A wise Chinese proverb says: a river or sea can never be formed without the joining of brooks and streams. This saying has proven itself to work in the sphere of economics, explaining the unbelievable growth of China’s international trade and financial expansion and it is also accurate when we…

Being the fastest-growing contemporary art market in the World, Asian art market is expanding its borders by involving increasingly more countries from the region. In recent years Asia has brought out on the international art scene a number of talented young artists from China, South Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam,…

The major customers for the wireless charging system – known as Plugless Power, – are Chinese automakers and the target product was passenger cars. US based Evatran had just announced an investment from Zhejiang VIE Science and Technology Co, a Chinese supplier for majority of Chinese EV (electric vehicles) producers.…

Chinese minister of commerce opening Gao Hucheng said at a G20 meeting in Shanghai[1] did not mentioned Brexit directly. He stated that major economies must lead the way in tackling problems, including slowing trade and sluggish growth. The G20 ministers, from the world’s major economies, agreed to cut trade costs,…

From 1990s the Chinese model has proved sufficiently flexible to offer – for some at least- an alternative to democracy. Is it nowadays beginning to reach its limits? Growing middle class and its demands, presents unintended consequences of economic development. From mid 1970s China’s people have concentrated on building a…

  China’s two sessions this year will specify the five development notions stressed in its 13th Five-Year Plan, namely innovative, coordinated, green, open and shared development, said Xin Ming, a professor of Party School of the CPC Central Committee. Xin made the prediction ahead of the upcoming annual meetings of…

China set its closely watched 2016 economic growth target in a range of 6.5 percent to 7 percent as the country pledged to push forward structural reforms and curb overcapacity, with analysts believing the economy will witness an L-shaped growth for the whole year. In his government work report delivered…

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday underlined supply-side structural reform, saying China should also follow and implement the philosophy of innovative, coordinated, green, opening and sharing development. Xi joined the group deliberation of deputies from Shanghai on the first day of the national legislature’s annual session. He encouraged Shanghai to make use of…

The term of Burmese president Thein Sein will end with the election of a new head of state by the parliament in March. In the eyes of the international community he was instrumental in seeing through the economic and political changes in Myanmar. Thein Sein is being praised for bringing…

An innovation and entrepreneurial spree has swept China since last year’s “two sessions”, the annual sessions of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). Data indicated that the country is now outpacing the rest of the world in creating new start-ups. Statistics from UHY,…

As the annual sessions of National People’s Congress (NPC) and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPC), also referred as the “two sessions,” are just around the corner, eight agendas have been laid out which can summarize the country’s policy objectives. For the Chinese people, the two major events, coming at…

Poland-Asia Research Centre (CSPA) is a leading Polish think-tank working on Eastern and Southern Asia. We’ve assembled a team of experts on Asian countries, who possess practical knowledge coming from many years’ experiences of work on the Far East markets, paid long visits to Asia and expertise in the fields…

There are mixed signals from Chinese economy these days. Financial markets turbulences and slowing rate of growth provide attractive opportunities for pessimistic prophecy. Let us look, however into the brightest side of reality. Some publications deliver interesting findings[1]. That will not immediately improve situation but it offers some hope for…

South Korea is now paying more attention to `the systemic and nuclear widespread violations of international treaties. As a reaction, South Korean authorities decided to close the Industrial Complex of Kaesong (North Korea) which was fully financed by South Korean authorities. This article provides also an effort to propose recommendations…

According to the rules that were supposed to partly ease free currency movements in and out of China (maximum allowed equaled about 50 000 US$). If about 5 percent of the population – that is 65 million residents, each took the maximum allowed 50,000 US$ out of China that would wipe…

It is not a coincidence that the “Make in India” plan has been preceded by a spectacular success of Indian Space Research Organisation. The spacecraft Mangalyaan has reached Mars on September 24, 2014. This mission made India the first Asian state which entered the orbit of the Red Planet[i]. A…