Washington’s Dangerous New Consensus On China
It is distressing and dangerous, therefore, that a fast-growing consensus is emerging in Washington that views the U.S.-Chinese relationship as a zero-sum economic and military struggle. Read More Here
Is India The New China in Africa?
Since achieving independence, India has consistently supported anti-colonial and anti-racist liberation struggles in Africa. While the earlier relationship was built on the legacy of colonialism, a wave of liberalization and privatization in India in the 1990s led to a decisive shift in its Africa engagement toward trade and economic matters. Read More Here
China Attempting To ‘Seize Control’ Of Multilateral Organisations To ‘Weaponise’ Them, UK report Says
China and other nations were attempting to “seize control” of strategically important international organisations so they could be “weaponised”, a new report by the UK parliament’s influential Foreign Affairs Committee said. The report accused China in particular of “bullying” states to back their position or their candidates for top jobs, using measures including financial leverage… […]
China’s Third Aircraft Carrier Takes Shape
Recent commercial satellite imagery reveals that China has made substantial progress in the construction of its third aircraft carrier, commonly known as the Type 003. The vessel is slated to become the largest surface combatant in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) and significantly upgrade China’s naval capabilities. Read More Here
Hope Stubborn India Reflects One Year On
China will not strategically court India by discarding its own territory. India does not have the capital to engage in economic and trade consumption with China. It has never supported China in strategy. New Delhi severely overestimates its strategic leverage. Read More Here
Biden Abroad: Pitching America To Welcoming If Wary Allies
President Joe Biden spent his first trip overseas highlighting a sharp break from his disruptive predecessor, selling that the United States was once more a reliable ally with a steady hand at the wheel. European allies welcomed the pitch — and even a longtime foe acknowledged it. Read More Here
Biden’s Plan to Cooperate With Europe On Tech
Biden came to Europe with a clear sense of the geopolitics of technology—the logic of great-power competition and, in particular, the struggle between democratic and authoritarian technology… But the logic of great-power competition and its technological valences have not gained universal traction beyond U.S. shores. Read More Here
Putin, After Spending The Day With Joe Biden: “There Is No Happiness In Life”
About the only thing Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin agreed on as they headed into a high-stakes summit Wednesday was that the relationship between the United States and Russia is at a low point. After close to four hours of talks at a Geneva chalet, that doesn’t appear to have changed. “There is no happiness in life,” Putin said somewhat cryptically […]
Myanmar’s Coming Revolution
Myanmar is at a point of no return. The army’s February coup, meant to surgically shift power within the existing constitutional framework, has instead unleashed a revolutionary energy that will be nearly impossible to contain. Over the past four months, protests and strikes have continued despite the killing of more than 800 people and the […]
China Repackages Its History In Support of Xi’s National Vision
Modern lore has it that Mao Zedong’s eldest son, who was killed in a United Nations airstrike during the Korean War, had given away his position by firing up a stove to make egg fried rice. That story didn’t sit right with the Chinese Academy of History, launched two years ago by Chinese leader Xi […]
