Wu Sike, Member on Foreign Affairs Committee, CPPCC
Aug 09, 2012
On August 2, Annan said he would not renew his mandate after it expires on August 31. While paying homage to this U.N.-Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syria, the international community expressed regret over his decision.
Yuan Peng, Vice President, Chinese Institute of Contemporary International Relations
Aug 08, 2012
Despite a chaotic and often pessimistic international and peripheral strategic environment for China, there are still potential positive opportunities available. China must refrain from rash, ill-advised reactions to a rapidly changing world and focus on a thoughtful international policy both near and abroad.
He Wenping, Senior Research Fellow, Charhar Institute and West Asia and Africa Studies Institute of the China Academy of Social Sciences
Aug 06, 2012
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is now paying her 11-day visit to sub-Saharan Africa including Senegal, South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi and South Afric
Wang Wenfeng, Professor, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations
Aug 05, 2012
Since the beginning of the formal Sino-US relationship, China has always followed the US presidential elections with a degree of trepidation and a clearly preferred candidate. In this election however, both candidates seem set to follow similar policies leaving China with little discernable difference between the two.
Aug 05, 2012
China-US bilateral relations are still fragile and not so stable because of strategic suspicion of each other, a mentality that has never died out and tends to grow even stronger with China’s rise.
David Shambaugh, Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies and Director of the China Policy Program, George Washington University
Aug 03, 2012
As the U.S. presidential election swings into its final three months, the Republican challenger Mitt Romney is beginning to define his foreign policy beliefs. U
Zhao Minghao, Professor, Institute of International Studies, Fudan University, and China Forum Expert.
Jul 24, 2012
To be a very powerful state in world politics does not make for an easy life. China increasingly realizes the predicaments it faces while its power has been growing rapidly. Indeed, the disturbance of China’s regional diplomacy in recent years suggests that it is encountering daunting challenges on exercising and securing power.
Zhang Chun, Senior Fellow, Shanghai Institutes for Int'l Studies
Jul 20, 2012
With China’s rapid economic growth since 1979, the scope and scale of the Sino-American relationship have expanded significantly. In other words, this relation
Ted Galen Carpenter, Senior Fellow, Randolph Bourne Institute
Jul 14, 2012
During his visit to Vietnam in early June, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta displayed eagerness to have the U.S. military return to the bases it once occu
Fan Jishe, Professor, the Central Party School of Communist Party of China
Jul 13, 2012
Despite three decades worth of effort in political, economic, social, cultural, and even military exchanges, the strategic mutual trust between China and the United States has not increased as significantly as expected. On the contrary, the past several years have witnessed an increase of "strategic deficit." An outdated, arrogant, and narrow-minded mentality characterized by "zero-sum" and "Cold War" still haunts their bilateral relations.