A new model for peace? China takes its Global Security Initiative to Africa
From Somalia to Ethiopia, Chinese training scholarships are the start of an alternative to Western-led alliances. Read More Here
Tag: Africa
Will China Intervene Directly to Protect its Investments in Africa?
Africa presents a uniquely complex challenge for China. Political instability — wars, coups, civil unrest — poses challenges that may undermine China’s peaceful rise and compel it to deploy military and security forces to protect its investments and own economic development. Read More Here
As Belt and Road Forum Convenes, Time to Rethink Narratives on China’s Economic Coercion
The problem with all this focus on Chinese economic coercion, and the related anxieties about its ability to weaponize trade, is that China hasn’t been particularly good at it. Read More Here
How China’s Belt and Road Took Over the World
Mapping the BRI’s growth over its first 10 years – and its transformation from a Eurasian transit corridor to an initiative with global scope. Read More Here
The Return of the Global South
Realism, Not Moralism, Drives a New Critique of Western Power. Read More Here
China’s Belt and Road to Nowhere
Xi Jinping’s signature foreign policy is a “shadow of its former self.” Read More Here
The End Of The Middle East
Leading regional powers operate outside the traditional Middle East in much the same way as they operate inside it, and many of the rivalries most important to the region now play out beyond those assumed borders. Read More Here
The End Of The Middle East
Leading regional powers operate outside the traditional Middle East in much the same way as they operate inside it, and many of the rivalries most important to the region now play out beyond those assumed borders. Read More Here
Looking Back At 2021… And Looking Ahead
2021 was definitely better than the horrible year tha preceded it, but only that much as societies and economies recovered from Covid-triggered lockdowns and battled to get some sense of the way the world would move after the once-in-a-century pandemic changed the way we lived, worked and thought. At lookingbeyondborders.com we tried to share with […]
The Real Lessons From 9/11: America Risks Swinging from Hubris to Muddle
The risk is that Mr Biden’s domestic bias could make his foreign policy less effective. America needs to find a new way to co-exist with China, with rivalry and co-operation in different areas. Read More Here
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