Wu Zurong, Research Fellow, China Foundation for Int'l Studies
Oct 21, 2020
Regardless who becomes the next president of the United States, a friendly and cooperative China policy should be his only choice. Confrontation produces no winners.
Ma Xiaoye, Board Member and Founding Director, Academy for World Watch
Oct 21, 2020
China and the United States identify areas of common interest and establish a reference framework for adjustments to bilateral ties. This is exactly the right place to focus additional effort.
Joseph S. Nye, Professor, Harvard University
Oct 15, 2020
There is no single future until it happens, and any effort to envision geopolitics in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic must include a range of possible futures. I suggest five plausible futures in 2030, but obviously others can be imagined.
Lucio Blanco Pitlo III, President of Philippine Association for Chinese Studies, and Research Fellow at Asia-Pacific Pathways to Progress Foundation
Oct 13, 2020
US-China relations are widely touted as the most important bilateral interaction in the world today. While this is true, it doesn’t mean that smaller nations and other regional powers aren’t making their own plays within the dynamic.
An Gang, Adjunct Fellow, Center for International Security and Strategy, Tsinghua University
Oct 13, 2020
If Democrats take power in Washington, the wind for U.S. relations with China will likely start blowing in a much more favorable direction. China should trim its sails and seize the opportunity.
Oct 11, 2020
Australia, India, Japan, and the United States met this week in Tokyo for security dialogues with U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo calling for the "Quad" to resist China's "exploitation, coercion, and corruption."
He Wenping, Senior Research Fellow, Charhar Institute and West Asia and Africa Studies Institute of the China Academy of Social Sciences
Oct 09, 2020
Both the UAE and Saudi Arabia, with relatively young leaders, have the will to promote trade and military cooperation with Israel. But putting their national interests ahead of the broader interests of the Arab world may not play well in the long run.
Sun Chenghao, Fellow, Center for International Security and Strategy of Tsinghua University; Visiting Scholar, Paul Tsai China Center of Yale Law School
Wang Lei, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of World Political Studies, CICIR
Oct 08, 2020
When U.S. president Donald Trump addressed the United Nations in a pre-recorded speech, he continued his sabotage of everything the organization stands for. By contrast, President Xi Jinping was the adult in the room, making the case that major powers have major responsibility.
Zhang Yun, Associate Professor at National Niigata University in Japan, Nonresident Senior Fellow at University of Hong Kong
Oct 08, 2020
The post-pandemic era has given rise to new thinking around the world. There is ample reason to believe that the post-pandemic era will bring neither a new cold war of confrontation nor a dark age of international friction.
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
Oct 08, 2020
Recent increases in detentions of foreign nationals has given rise to international suspicion, misunderstanding, and hostility towards China. If the PRC hopes to reverse the rapid decline in relations with Western states, it should address the negative impact of its laws and procedures on its international reputation.