Will China be a lone bright spot as other major economies struggle with the virus in the months ahead? And when the crisis finally ends, will China resume its role as the major driver of global growth, boosting the fortunes of multinationals once again? That appears to be the hope of many who have praised China for […]
The United States has accused China of using the global coronavirus pandemic to further expand its “unlawful claims” in the South China Sea. In a strongly worded statement, the US State Department gave Washington’s view of last week’s collision of a Chinese coastguard ship and a Vietnamese fishing vessel near the disputed Paracel Islands. Read […]
Controversy and secrecy appear to lurk in the corridors of the National Biosafety Laboratory in Wuhan. Described as “a cell within the Chinese Academy of Science’s Institute of Virology,” it conducts “coronavirus research” and is a United Nations “reference laboratory for infectious diseases.” It is also situated in the city which in December spawned the first […]
A pandemic is no time to tout the superiority of any country’s governance system or approach, let alone compete for global dominance. Instead of congratulating itself on having pushed back COVID-19, China should quietly win trust by helping the United States and other countries, not out of strategic interest, but on moral grounds. Read Here […]
China’s success in “flattening the curve” of the COVID-19 epidemic has been held up as a model for the rest of the world to emulate. But what the world really needs to understand is that China’s “victory” required massive sacrifices by doctors, nurses, and other health workers whose names we will never know. Read Here […]
A group of 100 Chinese scholars has signed an open letter calling on the United States and China to put an end to their political blame game and work together to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. The signatories, who include former diplomats and academics from various fields, including political science, international relations and sociology, said that […]
The United States has limited means of influencing China’s closed political system, but the diplomatic, economic, and military pressure that Washington can bring to bear on Beijing will put Xi and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) he leads under enormous strain. Indeed, a prolonged period of strategic confrontation with the United States, such as the […]
China has rolled out new measures to support its economy from the coronavirus pandemic, including an additional central bank credit line of 1 trillion yuan (US$14 billion) to small lenders. The initiatives announced at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday ranged from new bond quotas for local authorities to income support for poor Chinese. Read Here […]
Winning the legal argument, China has learnt from the history of great power relations, is very much part of great power jousting. The negative lessons are from the Soviet Union that dismissed the Western legal arguments during the Cold War as based on the logic of capital and empire. That did not convert many beyond […]
A growing number of imported coronavirus cases in China, where the epidemic originated in December, risked fanning a second wave of infections when domestic transmissions had “basically been stopped”, a senior health official said on Sunday. Read Here – Reuters
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