Commenting on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s speech at the G-20 Summit in St. Petersburg, Chen Xiangyang explains the significance of Xi’s remarks highlighting the need for cooperation to ensure stable economic growth across the globe, rather than focusing on the economic crises facing rising and falling powers.

With Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin set to meet during the G-20 Summit in St. Petersburg, Richard Weitz highlights the recent strengthening of the Sino-Russian bilateral defense relationship.

Chinese people have a profound emotional bond to their land, culture, and sense of identity. The Chinese dream of its regenerated status is a powerful one, and Chinese politicians would be fools not to appeal to it, writes Kerry Brown

Considering the lack of progress toward implementing financial reforms, many analysts question whether China’s leaders have the economy under control. As China’s leaders prepare for their annual summer meeting, Yao Yang urges the adoption of a bold plan for structural reform.

Scholars have compared the American Dream and Chinese Dream, even encouraging China to avoid following in the footsteps of the American Dream. However, with all the nuances to the American Dream, China can learn from it and apply it to realize its own Chinese Dream.

President Obama has refused to be intimidated by China’s influence in Sub-Saharan Africa, visiting the same number of African nations in June and July as his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping, visited in March. As the Obama administration attempts to portray the continent as an area for investment, Robert Rotberg explains the competing interests in the region.

Obama’s recent rhetoric about China and other emerging countries’ entry into Africa has been quite encouraging and can be seen as an important step forward for future US-China cooperation in Africa, writes He Wenping.

Are the U.S. and China headed for a “new great power relationship?” In a rare and exclusive interview with Christiane Amanpour, Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. Cui Tiankai said that it’s “obvious” that the countries need each other.

As time progresses, regional trade agreements have grown in number. Although these agreements are effective and beneficial to those nations involved, they cannot and should not replace the global "free-trade" framework.

At the heart of China’s request for a new type of big power relationship with the US is a demand for greater symmetry in bilateral negotiations, writes Pang Zhongying. Only a roughly symmetrical relationship can be stable.