Zhang Yun, Associate Professor at National Niigata University in Japan, Nonresident Senior Fellow at University of Hong Kong
Feb 13, 2022
The United States and its allies need to make a strategic shift in their Asian strategy, away from their highly militarized mindset and toward thinking about what countries in the region want.
Richard Javad Heydarian, Professorial Chairholder in Geopolitics, Polytechnic University of the Philippines
Feb 12, 2022
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen will assume leadership of ASEAN this year, and bring with him a positive attitude towards China and a recent history of disengagement with the West. Observers expect that the regional organization’s agenda will turn away from topics that will directly challenge China’s influence over Southeast Asia.
Philip Cunningham, Independent Scholar
Feb 12, 2022
The United States seems to always have a choice jab ready for China, despite weathering an election insurrection a year ago and simmering tensions over COVID-19 responses within its own borders.
Brian Wong, Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Fellow at Centre on Contemporary China and the World, HKU and Rhodes Scholar
Feb 08, 2022
The RCEP is the largest free trade agreement in global history - but that doesn’t mean it’s going to be smooth sailing for China and its partners in Southeast Asia.
Kemel Toktomushev, Research Fellow, University of Central Asia
Feb 08, 2022
China’s economic rise and active investment sector has grown its influence in Central Asia - but money alone is not enough to change the complex realities in the region’s domestic politics.
Sourabh Gupta, Senior Fellow, Institute for China-America Studies
Feb 08, 2022
The Biden administration’s pledge to “Build Back Better” should extend to the relationship with China - which is still straining under the tensions left behind by the previous occupant of the Oval Office.
Yang Wenjing, Research Professor, Institute of American Studies, CICIR
Feb 08, 2022
Some of the Cold War experience, though it may not be an exact parallel, can be instructive. A pattern should be established to avoid dragging the world into a lose-lose scenario.
Jan 30, 2022
Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday, addressing the China-U.S. relationship, along with both countries' involvement in the ongoing conflict between Russia and the Ukraine.
CISS, Center for International Security and Strategy
Jan 28, 2022
Twenty-seven top Chinese experts in international studies participated in discussions and surveys. Five major drivers, 10 major risk areas and several specific risk scenarios were identified.
Jin Liangxiang, Senior Research Fellow, Shanghai Institute of Int'l Studies
Jan 28, 2022
GCC countries want to maintain good relations with the United States, but they also want to maintain good relations with China, and are unwilling to take sides even under pressure.