As Mexico looks to broaden its global relationships away from the United States as a means to build its global profile; one of the top foreign policy initiatives for Mexico’s new government has been to diversify its political and economic relationships, with a focus on China.

Increased military exchanges and cooperation between China and the US can be regarded as a step towards building a new type of Sino-US military relationship, writes Wu Zurong.

To date, the initial suggestions of dialogues on a new type of major-power relations from both China and the US have predictably focused more on what each side wants the other to do rather than on what both sides must do. This essay by David M. Lampton aims to move the discussion forward by specifying the economic and security domains in which cooperation needs to be initiated or enhanced and by making specific policy proposals.

As the United States and China have been working to build a new type of great power relationship, North Korean policy has often been a point of debate. Bonnie Glaser outlines the importance of Pyongyang to the strengthening of Sino-US relations.

During President Xi Jinping’s September trip to the G20 summit, he also visited four Central Asian countries to discuss comprehensive strategic partnerships with China. Yu Sui discusses the possible ramifications of these visits and other global developments on the evolving China-US-Russia relationship.

China’s sense of vulnerability, not its rivalry with the United States, accounts for its opposition to Syrian intervention.

The relations between China and the US and between China and Japan, although in constant flux, will never transcend that between the US and Japan, writes Jiang Yuechun.

Will China’s economic slowdown have a negative impact on Latin America’s emerging markets? Fernando Menéndez explores how infrastructure development and regional trade could allow for diversification in Latin America and why China would be a prime beneficiary of the expansion.

With Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin set to meet during the G-20 Summit in St. Petersburg, Richard Weitz highlights the recent strengthening of the Sino-Russian bilateral defense relationship.

The apparent use of chemical weapons in Syria’s civil war has produced shrill calls for launching air strikes on the regime of Bashar al Assad. Furthermore, proponents of a strike are using the 1999 NATO campaign as a precedent. However, what does this approach mean for Washington’s ties with Beijing and Moscow?