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Analysis of Trade Creation and Trade Diversion Effects Between Korea and South/North Asia

open access: yesAsian-Pacific Economic Literature, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Korea has established various policies to expand trade between Southern Asia and Northern Asia, and an analysis of the impact of these policies is required. Hence, this study used a gravity model to estimate the impact of trade creation and diversion effects on Southern and Northern Asia, focusing on their trade relationships with Korea.
Byung Min Soon, Sumin Cho, Jinhyoung Kim
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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The Mobility Politics of Hong Kong's High‐Speed Rail

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human geography scholarship has revealed how powerful and marginalised actors alike may use (im)mobility to exert authority, and it has recognised the ability of infrastructure to either consolidate or undermine state power. This paper uses new evidence to demonstrate how Hong Kong's express rail link (XRL) to Mainland China was implicated in ...
Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto
wiley   +1 more source

Trading in troubled times: The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic, military coup, and Chinese border closure on the Kachin amber industry

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This paper investigates the impact of Covid‐19, border closure, and the military coup on the mining and trading of Kachin amber in northern Myanmar. Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic and the 2021 military coup have dramatically affected the lives and livelihoods of communities across Myanmar.
Seng Lawn Dan, Alessandro Rippa
wiley   +1 more source

The geographies of the Information Research Department: Intelligence, diplomacy and the British secret state

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Abstract This paper develops a historical and political geographical analysis of the UK Foreign Office's Information Research Department (IRD). Empirically it is grounded in archival study of IRD files concerning operations in Ghana and South Africa during the Cold War and specifically the 1960s and 1970s.
Ben Gowland
wiley   +1 more source

Activism for Socialist Industrial Heritage in Romania: The Carbochim Project Controversy

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This study aims to better understand activism in the Romanian post‐socialist society during a struggle to preserve the socialist industrial heritage of Carbochim, in Cluj‐Napoca, Romania. From an urban activist perspective, we present a failed heritagisation process because of commercial‐oriented real estate development, but that enables
Oana‐Ramona Ilovan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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