Yan Xuetong, Distinguished Professor, Tsinghua University
Dec 28, 2021
Strategic competition between China and the United States should be characterized not as a new cold war but as an uneasy peace. Shooting is not likely to break out, but the two countries will remain in dread of each other in the coming decade.
Philip Cunningham, Independent Scholar
Dec 24, 2021
China’s supporters have touted its refusal to engage in “world policing” as a benefit to its ascent to global superpower status - but now the U.S. could weaponize that very policy against them in the battle for influence and power.
Richard Javad Heydarian, Professorial Chairholder in Geopolitics, Polytechnic University of the Philippines
Dec 24, 2021
The Philippines is gearing up for a hotly contested presidential election, and the relationship with China across trade and security must be addressed by each candidate.
Zhang Bei, Assistant Research Fellow, China Institute of International Studies
Dec 24, 2021
Europe is working out its own path in light of China-U.S. tensions. It will only cooperate with the U.S. on China where it suits its own politics and interests and with its own approaches and tools.
Li Yan, Deputy Director of Institute of American Studies, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations
Dec 22, 2021
The recent Summit for Democracy organized by U.S. President Joe Biden, indicates a new long-term focus for the US-China rivalry. This can be destructive. Whether the two countries can coexist without catastrophe is at the top of the agenda.
Dec 21, 2021
The past week saw an increasing number of restrictions placed by the U.S. against Chinese entities.
Philip Cunningham, Independent Scholar
Dec 20, 2021
The upcoming Winter Olympics may have been an opportunity for the U.S. to make a friendly entrance to China - instead, the official boycott by White House representatives has made it the latest of barbed exchanges between the two powerful nations.
Yang Wenjing, Research Professor, Institute of American Studies, CICIR
Dec 15, 2021
Playing to his domestic audience, the U.S. president must appear tough on human rights. But this has its limits. America’s half-baked Olympic boycott applies only to diplomats, not to athletes. To do more would risk domestic and international blowback.
Chen Jimin, Guest Researcher, Center for Peace and Development Studies, China Association for International Friendly Contact
Dec 15, 2021
The postwar foundation laid by the United States has been shaken, and the Western model is in trouble as never before. The primary creator of the liberal international order has unwittingly sabotaged itself.
Yu Yongding, Former President, China Society of World Economics
Dec 14, 2021
In 2018, Steve Bannon, then-US President Donald Trump’s chief strategist, argued that the United States needed to “decouple” from China. Since then, the term has become a fixture in discussions of Sino-American relations – to the point that some, such as former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, have warned that it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy. How salient is that risk today?