What kind of superpower will China be? That’s the question of the 21st century. According to American leaders such as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, China will be a rapacious authoritarian nightmare, intent on destroying democracy itself. Beijing, needless to say, doesn’t quite agree. Read Here | The Atlantic
Four examples of the Chinese leadership’s duplicity and mendacity demonstrate that the last thing the world should do is trust the Communist Party of China. If governments recognise this and act together, the sooner the Beijing bullies will have to behave better. Read Here | Project Syndicate
Day by day, the US–China confrontation is heating up. The trajectory now appears irreversible. The nations of the Indo-Pacific, Japan included, are sandwiched between the United States and China. It is high time for them to consider strengthening effective regional cooperation by building on ASEAN-centred processes. Read Here | East Asia Forum
US President Donald Trump lashed out at China in his annual United Nations General Assembly address on Tuesday, saying the country had “unleashed” the coronavirus on the world and polluted the environment at extreme levels with impunity. “We have waged a fierce battle against the invisible enemy: the China virus,” Trump said in a pre-recorded […]
President Xi Jinping has assured China’s private entrepreneurs they are a key part of the nation’s “socialist market economy”, as Beijing gears up for prolonged economic and tech rivalry against the United States. Xi delivered the message to the inaugural United Front Work conference for private businesses, a day after the Communist Party released a […]
China now doesn’t want to export its socialist system; it wants to defend what it deems are its sovereign rights against a perceived aggression on many fronts of its frontiers: India, Vietnam, Japan, a “splittist” Taiwan, the US, and possibly other countries. But its size and its different system by themselves undermine the global US-dominated […]
America’s open society allows for the infiltration of Chinese soft power organisations, such as the Confucius Society. America’s liberalism also makes it susceptible to disinformation campaigns and election meddling.Against China, the United States has the better hand. It has more and better allies than China, a better economy, a larger middle class, a more legitimate […]
Xi’s power is not unlimited, and can only overcome opposition if he continues to show economic success, especially restructuring and reforms, which have not been successful so far. Whether it is the resentments of the government officials or public intellectuals and liberals who have been most affected by Xi’s muzzling of dissent, they can only […]
Twice in the 20th century, Japan challenged the West, first in a military-led attempt to become an imperial power and then as an industrial powerhouse. Now, it is China’s turn to take the global stage. Seventy-five years after Japan’s surrender in World War II, and 30 years after its economic bubble popped, the emergence of […]
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is lobbying his European counterparts for support amid a geopolitical spat with the United States, but he has been met with concerns over human rights and 5G technology security. Read Here – South China Morning Post
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