Belt and Road Initiative China manoeuvres to protect its interests while keeping its hands clean March 26, 2020 0 Image credit: Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptors by Robert Sullivan/Flickr; licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0. Written by James M. Dorsey. The question is not if, but…
China The new triangular relationship between the US, China and Latin America January 15, 2019 0 Written by Enrique Dussel Peters. 2018 will probably be remembered as the beginning of the ‘trade war’ between the Trump Administration and China involving steel,…
ASEAN A fraught and frightening future? Southeast Asia under the shadow of Trump’s America and Xi’s China January 14, 2019 0 Written by Ja Ian Chong. If the tumult from last November’s APEC Summit in Papua New Guinea is any indication, then Southeast Asia seems set…
China China’s South China Sea Policy and the Implications for US-China Relations September 14, 2017 0 Written by Liselotte Odgaard. In December 2016, a Chinese navy vessel seized a US unmanned underwater drone in the South China Sea near the Philippines. The…
China What is Trump’s China Policy Framework? May 10, 2017 1 Written by Christopher Balding. One could be forgiven for trying to keep up with the wild gyrations in the evolving China strategy and how to…
China The PLA in 2026. December 12, 2016 0 Written by Eric Heginbotham. In 2015, RAND Corporation colleagues and I published a net assessment of U.S. and Chinese capabilities in two scenarios – the Spratly…
China China and the Global Great Game: New Order not New Imperialism September 18, 2015 1 Written by Grant Dawson. China’s recent stock-market crisis has undermined international confidence in China as a sure and steady engine of economic growth. The image…
International Relations America’s great gamble on China November 14, 2014 0 Written by Simon Reich. President Obama arrived in Beijing this week to participate in the meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. He held talks…
International Relations What can the US and China learn from the “Special Relationship”? October 1, 2014 7 Written by Xu Ruike. Six British Tornado fighter jets have participated in US-led air strikes against the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq following the British…