As US, China Fight Over Bangladesh, India Is the Real Winner
New Delhi is quietly playing Beijing and Washington against one another without draining its own resources in the geopolitical battle for Bangladesh. Read More Here
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U.S.-China Rapprochement Will Not Come Quickly
Beijing and Washington continue to pursue policies that appear aimed more at competition and confrontation than at pursuing avenues for cooperation. Read More Here
The Black Hole of National Security
After decades of disuse, costly “national security” trade restrictions have proliferated, aided largely by a troublesome loophole in global trade rules. Read More Here
A brief history of China-Africa relations
Africa has been crucial to China’s foreign policy since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1947. China supported several African liberation movements during the Cold War, and for every year since 1950 bar one, the foreign minister of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has first visited an African country. Read More Here
WTO Says Be Careful On ‘Friend-Shoring’
Trade blocs seeking to skirt geopolitical risk by “friend-shoring” activities to like-minded countries should be careful which commerce partners they favour. Read More Here
Japan’s Shift To War Footing
Throughout the Cold War, the United States and Japan focused on the threat from the Soviet Union, but with tensions increasing around Taiwan, Tokyo has turned to its south, adopting principles that former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pushed for before his death. Read More Here
The 6 Horsemen of the Apocalypse for China
The struggles of 2022 highlighted six crises China will have to face now and into the future. Read More Here
Reason To hope for a China-Australia reset
PM Albanese calls for ‘more positive’ relations while Chinese state media reciprocates by softening its anti-Australia tone. Read More Here
The Arab World at an Inflection Point
The region’s leaderships are making a set of strategic choices as consequential as the ones their predecessors made earlier, and it has an opportunity to make much better strategic choices than it made in the past, and there are signs it is beginning to do so—but not in every case. Read More Here
Modi’s China Policy Is A Failure
The Indian government has tread carefully—and invited trouble. Read More Here
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