Yasheng Huang, Professor, MIT’s Sloan School of Management
Mar 08, 2022
China’s response to Russia’s war against Ukraine has been heavily scrutinized and criticized. While Chinese officials have expressed concern about civilian casualties, they have declined to condemn the attack, which they regard as a response to NATO expansion, and they have declared that they will not join the West in imposing financial sanctions on Russia. Yet China has hardly given full-throated support to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The question is whether this relatively neutral stance by China could prove crucial to preventing further dangerous military escalation.
Stephen Roach, Senior Fellow, Yale University
Mar 08, 2022
History’s turning points are rarely evident with great clarity. But the February 4 joint statement of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping as the Winter Olympics opened in Beijing may be an exception – signaling a new turning point in a new Cold War.
Curtis S. Chin, Former U.S. Ambassador to Asian Development Bank
Jose B. Collazo, Southeast Asia Analyst and an Associate at RiverPeak Group
Jan 24, 2022
The winners and losers of the last year tell a story of turbulence and change in a year that saw the world make it through 12 more months of global pandemic and simmering geopolitical tensions, without resolving either issue.
Minxin Pei, Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government , Claremont McKenna College
Jan 07, 2022
During the Cold War, Europe was America’s strategic priority. East Asia was largely a sideshow, even though the United States fought bloody wars in Korea and Vietnam, and also provided security for Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Zhang Yun, Professor, School of International Relations, Nanjing University
Jan 07, 2022
Americans like to think the United States won the Cold War and they nostalgically believe the same approach will work with China. It won’t. In fact, healthy China-U.S. relations depend on Washington’s moving away from the myth.
Wang Jisi, Professor at School of International Studies and Founding President of Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University
Jan 07, 2022
High-level dialogues in 2021 between China and the United State clarified their positions. Now it’s imperative that the two rivals avoid a new cold war by engaging in substantive working-level talks.
Zhao Minghao, Professor, Institute of International Studies at Fudan University, and China Forum Expert
Nov 19, 2021
Two presidents take a stand against a new cold war in a virtual summit. The old friends sought to renew relations and move forward — accepting competition but shunning conflict. How to achieve that is the big question.
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
Oct 07, 2021
The fallout of the AUKUS deal has the potential to alter the landscape of relationships in the Pacific region. By entering a nuclear arms deal with Australia, the U.S. and U.K. are applying pressure in the showdown between China and its Western counterparts.
Charles C. Krulak, A Retired Four-star General, Former Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
Alex Friedman, Former Chief Financial Officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Aug 24, 2021
In the year 2034, the United States and China become embroiled in a series of military conflicts that escalate into a devastating tactical nuclear war. Other countries – including Russia, Iran, and India – get involved. Suddenly, the world is on the verge of World War III.
Wang Jisi, Professor at School of International Studies and Founding President of Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University
Jun 23, 2021
The United States and China are embroiled in a contest that might prove more enduring, more wide-ranging, and more intense than any other international competition in modern history, including the Cold War. In both countries, fears have grown that the contest might escalate into open conflict.