Richard Javad Heydarian, Professorial Chairholder in Geopolitics, Polytechnic University of the Philippines
May 20, 2021
As a former U.S. colony, the Philippines has maintained close ties with the United States on security issues for decades, and may quickly become a key player in Washington’s plans in the Indo-Pacific as China tests their claims across the South China Sea.
Giulio Pugliese, King’s College London, War Studies
May 08, 2021
The EU’s Strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific calls for a “meaningful European naval presence in the region.” What does it mean for vested parties in the South China Sea?
Wang Zhen, Research Professor, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
May 08, 2021
Pulling out of Afghanistan is a fraught prospect. The country is awash in terrorists, and groups will rise quickly again. A hurried withdrawal may also trigger a humanitarian crisis, resulting in greater damage to the international status and image of the United States.
Li Yan, Deputy Director of Institute of American Studies, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations
May 08, 2021
The United States is edging ever closer to China’s red lines as it moves to enhance relations with the island. This has triggered policy discussions in the U.S. about whether to abandon strategic ambiguity and make it clear that the United States will take military action to defend Taiwan against Beijing.
Chen Zinan, Assistant Researcher, Maritime Strategy Studies, CICIR
May 08, 2021
The rhetoric of the United States is designed to stoke fear and amp up tensions so that it can more easily form an alliance against China. Playing up the threat theory, however, only shows helplessness as China exercises its maritime rights.
Ramses Amer, Associated Fellow, Institute for Security & Development Policy, Sweden
Li Jianwei, Director and Research Fellow, National Institute for South China Sea Studies
May 06, 2021
More efforts are needed by China and the Philippines to relieve tensions over the presence of Chinese vessels. Variables such as a mutual defense treaty with the United States and the coming presidential election in the Philippines are possible inflection points.
May 04, 2021
Biden's address to the Congress welcomes competition with China.
Tom Watkins, President and CEO of the Economic Council of Palm Beach County, FL
Apr 29, 2021
After a 40 plus year run, the U.S.-China relationship has come to the proverbial fork in the road. Which way will America go?
Ma Shikun, Senior Journalist, the People’s Daily
Apr 20, 2021
Comments about Xinjiang should be based on reality, but unfortunately in the West they are not. Anti-China voices, led by the United States, are getting a level of attention that is far out of proportion to their credibility. The truth is easily established for fair-minded people.
He Wenping, Senior Research Fellow, Charhar Institute and West Asia and Africa Studies Institute of the China Academy of Social Sciences
Apr 17, 2021
China has its own reasons for strategic cooperation with Iran, and undermining the United States is not one of them. It is true, however, that Iran wants the U.S. to lift all sanctions, and the U.S. has signaled that it may be ready to concede.