With little expectations, but a lot of combinations and nervousness, was the long awaited summit of the Presidents of America and Russia a failure? It was not. And can it be described as a success, as a breakthrough from the winter… Read More ›
Politics & Law
Russia, Not China, Is EU’s Threat – but Biden Warms up with Putin
Some media says that G7 communique singles out China to accuse, but is entirely ignorant of the communique’s severe attacks of Russia as Russia not China is G7’s EU members’ major threat. Therefore Defense One says in its report “NATO… Read More ›
Three notes on G7 Communique 2021 vs China
G7 meeting in Cornwall, UK 2021 (photo by Leon Neal/PA Media and captured from BBC
G7 to counter China’s belt and road with infrastructure project – senior U.S. official
The Group of Seven rich nations will announce on Saturday a new global infrastructure plan as a response to China’s belt and road intiative, a senior official in U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration said. The official, who spoke to reporters… Read More ›
Biden wants the G-7 to unite against China. Beijing’s trade wars are helping
China’s aggressive economic diplomacy is pushing America’s allies bruised by Trump’s go-it-alone foreign policy back into the U.S. orbit. China will dominate discussion during President Joe Biden’s first foreign trip, as the G-7 summit kicks off Friday. And that’s exactly… Read More ›
The Biden administration and Lebanon: Keep up the pressure
Over the past several years, the international community has watched the tragedy in Lebanon unfold as that country continues its seemingly inexorable descent into a failed state. In its “World Report 2021,” Human Rights Watch captured Lebanon’s compounding crisis: “In… Read More ›
The time for India to play the Tibet card against China is now
India’s boundary dispute with China is intrinsically linked to Tibet. New Delhi’s recognition of Chinese sovereignty over Tibet was contingent upon China’s acceptance of Tibetan autonomy. The Dalai Lama gave up the quest for independence in exchange for genuine autonomy…. Read More ›
China’s hold on Cambodia hard for Biden to break
The narrative surrounding US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman’s visit to Phnom Penh last week was that Washington eyes a possible reset of relations with Cambodia. Even a recent article from Cambodia’s state-owned news agency, which long-ruling Prime Minister… Read More ›
China says it wants to become loveable, but will Australians believe them?
Originally posted on Craig Hill:
China says it wants to become loveable China’s President Xi Jinping said this week that China wants to become more credible, loveable and respectable, but that seems easier said than done. It’s about as likely…
China plans to rebrand and become ‘more lovable’ around the globe
Faced with widespread international criticism over China’s approach to a litany of issues both at home and abroad, its leader has an idea: a rebrand. President Xi Jinping said this week that China must improve the way it tells its… Read More ›
Senators say US donating vaccines to Taiwan amid China row
The U.S. will give Taiwan 750,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines, part of President Joe Biden’s move to share millions of jabs globally, three senators said Sunday, after the self-ruled island complained that China is hindering its efforts to secure the… Read More ›
In first public speech after leaving White Office, Trump attacks Biden, China
Speaking in Greenville, North Carolina, at the state’s Republican Party convention, Trump joined a chorus of Republican politicians who are criticizing Fauci for asking Americans to wear masks to guard against the virus and who at times has been skeptical… Read More ›
The CCP in China has managed to alienate almost the entire advanced world
China’s great weakness – or rather the Chinese Communist Party’s – is that no one likes authoritarian rulers, or people that lie, steal, spy and send out start pandemics. As I said over a year ago, the one thing China… Read More ›
Serbia: New internal and external challenges
Facing Covid-19 pandemic – mission of saving human lives In its response to the Covid-19 pandemic the Republic of Serbia introduced state of emergency on 15 March 2020 and then terminated it on 6 May 2020. From the start of… Read More ›
China’s One-Way Diplomacy
A good relationship between free societies and China is not something that the communist regime in Beijing bestows. It is something that China must earn by respecting the rules and norms of international behavior and by recognizing other countries’ sovereignty… Read More ›
Israel-China medical fund to raise $300m for joint drug development ventures
The Guangzhou Sino-Israel Bio-industry Investment Fund (GIBF), which seeks to promote and invest in Chinese and Israeli joint ventures in the biomedical field, said Monday it is raising a second fund for a total of $300 million (2 billion yuan)…. Read More ›
EU Trans-Atlantic relations should not exclude Latin America
On the historic date of March 08th – International Women’s Day, a large number of international affairs specialists gathered for the second consecutive summit in Vienna, Austria. This leg of the Vienna Process titled: “Europe – Future – Neighbourhood at… Read More ›
Taiwan is a country – and a free one, unlike China
It happens way too often, and it is exactly how China tries to desensitize the world to falsehoods. Wrestler-turned-actor John Cena became the latest victim of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) bullying when he issued a somewhat groveling apology — in… Read More ›
Biden’s Asia czar says era of engagement with China is over
The U.S. is entering a period of intense competition with China as the government running the world’s second-biggest economy becomes ever more tightly controlled by President Xi Jinping, the White House’s top official for Asia said. “The period that was… Read More ›
China and the Philippines’ tense stand-off over Scarborough Shoal leaves fishermen in fear
Federico Josol remembers the first time he saw a Chinese helicopter buzz menacingly above his fishing boat. It was 2013 and he was fishing at Panatag – or Scarborough Shoal – a triangular-shaped coral reef about 120 nautical miles from… Read More ›
This world has no rules-based order
“ … attacks against the rules-based order are intensifying … Let me be clear — the United States is not seeking to uphold this rules-based order to keep other nations down. The international order we helped build and defend has… Read More ›
The Promise of India
For over a decade India and China have been touted as the next superpowers. The notion of India as a “rising global power” received broader acknowledgment when then-President Barack Obama, on a visit to India in 2010, said that “India… Read More ›
Vladimir Putin says Russia-China ties at ‘highest level in history’ during launch of nuclear projects
Moscow-Beijing relations have reached their “highest level in history”, Russian President Vladimir Putin says. Mr Putin made the statement in a video conference with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping during which the leaders launched the construction of Russian-designed reactors at China’s Tianwan and… Read More ›
Europe’s crusade to fend off Chinese interference falls short
After trumpeting victory over an agreement reached between Europe and China for a Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) only a few months ago, Chinese leaders are probably stunned at the much harsher narrative now coming from European institutions. Beyond the… Read More ›
Philippines tells fishermen to ignore Beijing’s ban on fishing in South China Sea
The Philippines has rejected an annual summer fishing ban imposed by China in the disputed South China Sea and encouraged its boats to keep fishing in the country’s territorial waters. The fishing moratorium imposed by China since 1999 runs from… Read More ›
India-China Cyber Asymmetry: Act Now
This is a regular working day in Mumbai, India. The lines outside the ATMs and Bank tellers are getting serpentine, and people are losing their patience, the banking servers have crashed. In a short while stock market Servers crash, and… Read More ›
Hong Kong press editorial: US Congress sort of declares war on China
The ‘Strategic Competition Act of 2021’ passed through the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee by 21-1 on Apr 21 Wednesday. The bill will very likely get approved by the 100-member Senate soon. This bill includes a boycott of the 2022… Read More ›
Blinken warns China on Taiwan encroachment, Russia on Ukraine
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned China against encroaching on Taiwan, and blamed secrecy by the government in Beijing for helping to hasten the spread of COVID-19. In an interview with NBC News, Blinken voiced concern about tension fomented… Read More ›
China unlikely to make new climate pledges unless US backs down
Chinese President Xi Jinping called Friday for closer cooperation on combating global change as he held a video meeting with the leaders of Germany and France, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The talks with French President Emmanuel Macron and… Read More ›
China’s conquest of the South China Sea is the end of the International Rules-Based Order
I wholly concur with the penetrating analysis and categorical contention of retired Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio that the “United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, an international treaty adopted in 1982, will collapse if China succeeds in… Read More ›
China Sanctions Intensify, Escalating Trade Risks
Western trade and investment interests in China are facing new threats as sanctions trigger retaliation, heightening tensions over human rights, national security and territorial control. Since the start of President Joseph R. Biden’s term in office on Jan. 20, there… Read More ›
Chinese Checkers in the Middle East: Play or perish
As the United States vacates some of the foreign outposts, China is moving in to fill up the vacuum at a fast pace. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s latest visit to the Middle East is an indication in that direction…. Read More ›
China Allows People to Pay Respects at Grave of Cultural Revolution Leader Jiang Qing
Home | News | China China Allows People to Pay Respects at Grave of Cultural Revolution Leader Jiang Qing The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has allowed public access to the grave of Jiang Qing, former member of the Gang… Read More ›
China’s secret loan contracts reveal its hold over low-income nations
Chinese lenders have used legal contracts to give them a hidden advantage over other creditors when lending to low-income countries, in a trend which threatens to undermine global debt relief efforts, according to research. Many of the contract terms were… Read More ›
China rages against Western brands in Xinjiang cotton ruckus
Swedish fast-fashion giant H&M has shuttered at one of its shops in Urumqi, the capital of China’s far-west Xinjiang autonomous region, as local pressure mounts against Western criticism and sanctions against Beijing’s policies towards the region’s Muslim Uighur population. In… Read More ›
Could former US president Trump leverage Russia against China?
Before Obama began his pivot to Asia to contain China, the US had been quite successful in containing Russia with Chinese assistance. China supported the UN Security Council resolutions initiated by the West to contain Russia in the Middle East…. Read More ›
‘Don’t over-extend your Alaskan King Crab legs’, China tells the U.S.
At least five important points can be noted beyond the hostile exchange of words between the two sides during the Alaska meeting (BBC 2021 March 20 ‘US and China trade angry words at high-level Alaska talks’). First, Yang Jiechi, the… Read More ›
Anti-China outrage pulls Beijing into Myanmar coup crisis
Beijing is being pulled into the ulcerous crisis in Myanmar, an unraveling country it had carefully stitched into its big plans for Asia, with Chinese factories torched as mainland workers hunker down under martial law. During a January 2020 visit… Read More ›
Historical enmity makes Russia-China alliance impossible
Russia-China Treaty Alliance Failed to End Historical Enmity Over the past two centuries, China and Russia were seldom good neighbors except in the decade from February 1950 when they were allies under a treaty of alliance totalled “The Sino-Soviet Treaty… Read More ›
China is one of three powers in the world, and none can defeat the others alone
Now, like Cao Cao, the US is too strong for China to fight for superiority with while the EU is also well-established like Sun Quan’s State of Wu that China can use as its ally to counter US threat.. Like… Read More ›
America will only win when China’s regime fails
Competition between the United States and China has begun, but how will it end? There is a bipartisan consensus that Sino-American relations will be defined primarily by rivalry across multiple regions and dimensions of statecraft for years to come. Yet… Read More ›
Nearly 90% in U.S. see China as ‘competitor’ or ‘enemy,’ survey finds
Nearly 9 in 10 U.S. adults see China as a “competitor” or an “enemy” rather than a “partner,” a new survey has found, shedding light on shifting American views of the Asian behemoth. The Pew Research Center survey released Thursday — the first focusing… Read More ›
Charging of Politicians For ‘Subversion’ in Hong Kong Sparks International Outcry
The charging of 47 democracy activists and opposition politicians with “subversion” in Hong Kong under a draconian national security law imposed on the city by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sparked an international outcry on Monday, amid calls for… Read More ›
China has a legal problem: finding lawyers to defend its interests abroad
With China and its companies facing an increasing number of bruising overseas legal battles, defending the country’s interests abroad has become a pressing issue for the ruling Communist Party. President Xi Jinping raised concerns two years ago in a speech… Read More ›
China’s Leaders Laud Mao Acolyte in Symbolic Attack on Reformer Deng Xiaoping
The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) commemorated former premier Hua Guofeng at the weekend in a move that could indicate the party under general secretary Xi Jinping is continuing to model his leadership on that of Mao Zedong, analysts said…. Read More ›
China critic Bolsonaro looks set for second term as Brazil president
Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro – known as the “Trump of the Tropics” for his hardline China policies – does not look set to follow his US counterpart into a one-term exit in elections next year. While much could happen between… Read More ›
Military coup in Myanmar – responses in geopolitical context
Executive Summary The recent military coup in Myanmar has baffled many observers as unresolved tension from the country’s long military rule have resurfaced just after a landslide victory of the NLD party led by Aung San Suu Kyi. International reactions… Read More ›
The Tromsø Convention may reverse Europe’s democracy deficit
Accessing quality information has never been so challenging, despite or maybe, because of our exposure to tremendous amount of information. The entry into force of the Council of Europe (CoE) Convention on Access to Official Documents (Tromsø Convention) on 1… Read More ›
Why Iran won’t cross China on the Uighurs
Iran has long championed the cause of repressed Muslims worldwide, an often vocal stance that has underpinned the Islamic Republic’s self-proclaimed leadership role in the Muslim world. But Iran has willfully ignored the ordeal of more than 1.5 million Uighur… Read More ›
Poland risks squandering warm ties with China
On February 9, Polish President Andrzej Duda represented his country at the ninth Summit of Central and Eastern European Leaders with China, which was held via video link for safety reasons due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Duda, whose country is… Read More ›
