Biden Tells ASEAN He Doesn’t Want War With China
US leader signals he is not on a destabilising warpath while bloc fails as ever to address various pressing regional issues. Read More Here
Tag: Foreign Policy
Will U.S. Midterm Results Affect Washington’s Foreign Policy?
A Republican-led House could mean a more hawkish stance on China and less aid for Ukraine—or more of the same. Read More Here
India’s Act East Gateway: The Andaman And Nicobar Islands
After a slow start, New Delhi is finally realizing the islands’ crucial role in its Indo-Pacific strategy. Read More Here
Xi Looks For ‘Right Way’ To Mend China-US Relations After Party Congress
In his first message to the US since securing a third team as leader, the Chinese president says Beijing stands ready to work with Washington. Xi’s message was delivered to a gala in New York, which included messages from Joe Biden and former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger. Read More Here
How Global Public Opinion of China Has Shifted In The Xi Era
The sense that China’s power and influence on the world stage is growing is both widespread and long-held. As of this year, a median of 66% across 19 countries say that China’s influence in the world has recently been getting stronger. Read More Here
China’s Xi Clinches Third Term, With Loyalists On Standing Committee
China’s Xi Jinping secured a third leadership term and introduced a new Politburo Standing Committee that is stacked with loyalists, cementing his place as the country’s most powerful ruler since Mao Zedong. Read More Here
As Russia Reels, Eurasia Roils
In trying and failing to reclaim Russian imperial influence over Ukraine, Moscow is actively accelerating the decline of its influence throughout Eurasia. Read More Here
ASEAN Bracing For US-China Rivalry To Explode
Strategic region on edge as China points to ‘stormy seas’ ahead and US fires more punitive economic measures at Beijing. Read More Here
Why The US Kept Making Enemies Who Wanted To Be Friends: Castro, Ho Chi Minh And Putin
Through myopia, paranoia and arrogance, America has consistently created its own enemies and harmed other peoples in the interest of empire. Yet again, China is becoming an enemy, a role it doesn’t want but can’t refuse. Read More Here
Where Is Xi’s China Heading?
Regardless of which top Chinese officials appear on stage alongside Xi Jinping at this month’s Party Congress, certain fundamental issues will remain at the center of debates about China’s place in the world. Any changes in leadership will reflect differences in style, not substance. Read More Here
