Tianda Reports

DONG Yu 2020-03-16 With a series of violent protests triggered by the Anti-Extradition Movement over the past six months, Hong Kong society has been polarised. Some scholars, represented by Simon Shen Xu-hui, introduced the populist concept of “yellow economic circle” based on their political stance, in an attempt to spread ...

SUN Li, CHEN Jie 2020-03-02 The Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee emphasised the need to better translate institutional advantages into improved effective governance. It is governance effectiveness that determines the functioning of an established institution. Therefore, a more governance-based approach should be adopted to analyse existing ...

Francis T. LUI 2020-02-24 The economy of Hong Kong showed ominous signs at the beginning of 2019, when the biggest challenge came from the US-China trade war and the ensuing technology war between the two countries. If the trade war is prolonged, both the imports and exports of Hong Kong ...

WU Junfei 2018-11-19 At present, the core issues concerning politics in China are one-party governance, social and cultural reforms, and mature market-government relationship. Although the specific measures for conservative politics are varied, they should at least include direct election at the township level, community democracy, petition-based legislation, citizen juries, gender ...

Hsien-Sen LIN 2018-08-03 Under the strategic framework for the Asian Pacific rim established by the US, the Abe administration has constructed a hedging strategy composed of balancing and engagement. The balancing strategy includes “internal balancing” measures aiming to enhance Japan’s overall national strengths as represented by military and economic power, ...

Nian PENG 2018-06-28 Why did Trump rashly wage a “real” trade war? What is Trump’s intention? How will the US-China trade war evolve? And what countermeasures should China take?
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Richard LUI 2018-04-16 The Hong Kong Legislative Council (LegCo) by-election was held on 11 March 2018  following the disqualification of six lawmakers in the pro-democratic camp over the oath-taking controversy. In the by-election, three of the seats to be filled were one each from three geographical constituencies – New Territories ...

Johnson LI 2017-12-14 Based on grasping the trend of the times and history, China has proposed building a new type of international relations featuring win-win cooperation, working to build a community with a shared future for mankind. By offering to the world Chinese solutions with oriental wisdom, the country is ...

Tianda Institute 2017-08-01 From 26 April to 11 June, Tianda Institute conducted a survey among 2,028 Hong Kong citizens aged 18 and over via random telephone interviews about their expectations from the Chief Executive-elect.
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Justin YIP 2017-07-21 Following the power redistribution in the past two decades after Hong Kong’s reunification with China in 1997, and amid the recent political turmoil, the high level of general distrust in the HKSAR government is creating serious imbalance in public  sentiments towards the government, posing great challenges to ...