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U.S.-Iran

Eight Paradoxes of War with Iran

Niu Xinchun
Professor, China-Arab Research Institute, Ningxia University

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Niu XinchunU.S. Loses Under Trump’s Middle East Policy
U.S.-Iran

Stalemate Puts Trump on the Clock

Zhu Zhaoyi
Executive Director of the Institute of Middle East Studies, Peking University HSBC Business School.

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Zhu Zhaoyi60-Day Countdown to U.S.-Iran Cease-Fire

Cautious Optimism | Christopher McNally

Christopher Nixon Cox on Trump’s Beijing Visit: Risks, Prospects and Future Ties

“A Placeholder” | Stephen Roach

Can Strategic Stability Guide China-U.S. Relations? ｜Sun Chenghao

Taiwan After the Xi-Trump Summit in Beijing | Shao Yuqun

India’s Strategic Balancing in a Turbulent World | Nirupama Rao

Building a Functional Relationship | Susan Thornton

How “Offensive Retrenchment” Plays Out in Venezuela and Iran | Zhao Minghao

Li Daokui: I Am Still Optimistic We Can Work Together

From Rivalry to ‘Coopetition’: How China Sees a World in Transition | Zhou Bo

U.S.-Iran

Eight Paradoxes of War with Iran

Niu Xinchun
Professor, China-Arab Research Institute, Ningxia University

Further reading

Niu XinchunU.S. Loses Under Trump’s Middle East Policy
U.S.-Iran

Stalemate Puts Trump on the Clock

Zhu Zhaoyi
Executive Director of the Institute of Middle East Studies, Peking University HSBC Business School.

Further reading

Zhu Zhaoyi60-Day Countdown to U.S.-Iran Cease-Fire
China’s Economy

Explaining China’s Industrial Competitiveness

Miao Yanliang
Senior Managing Director and Chief Strategist, China International Capital Corporation

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Miao YanliangThe Dilemma of Central Banking
South China Sea

Integrating New Energy and Aquaculture: Practical Cooperation in the South China Sea

Lucio Blanco Pitlo III
Member of Board of Directors, Philippine Association for Chinese Studies

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Lucio Blanco Pitlo IIIChina’s Sanctions on Philippine Defense Chief: Disrupting A Diplomatic Thaw
AI Safety

The Antidote for Autonomous AI – “One Union, Two Systems”

Yang Wang, Brian Wong

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Brian WongHow Would and Should Andy Burnham Engage with China?
Monetary Order

The Dawn of A China-U.S.-Europe Tripolar Monetary Order

Nicola Casarini
Senior Fellow, Istituto Affari Internazionali

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Nicola CasariniThe Belt and Road’s Enduring European Presence
Sustainable Development

Is Washington Ceding the Post-2030 Agenda to Beijing?

Lexi Yixuan Ma
Member, United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth

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Integrating New Energy and Aquaculture: Practical Cooperation in the South China Sea
China-US-Europe Relations

The Untold Story of Two Aging Giants and One Growing Rival

Franz Jessen, Sebastian Contin Trillo-Figueroa

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Franz JessenThe Trump Corollary in Europe’s Decisive Hour
AI Safety

Revealing Approaches at AI Conference

Li Yan,
Director of Institute of Sci-Tech and Cyber Security Studies, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations

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Li Yan,America’s Genesis Mission: It’s No Manhattan Project
Oil Price

The New Oil Paradigm: China's as Market Stabilizer and Distorter

Kathryn Neville
Masters student, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

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Kathryn NevilleIs China Outpacing the U.S. in its Energy Transition?

Cautious Optimism | Christopher McNally

Christopher Nixon Cox on Trump’s Beijing Visit: Risks, Prospects and Future Ties

“A Placeholder” | Stephen Roach

Can Strategic Stability Guide China-U.S. Relations? ｜Sun Chenghao

Taiwan After the Xi-Trump Summit in Beijing | Shao Yuqun

India’s Strategic Balancing in a Turbulent World | Nirupama Rao

Building a Functional Relationship | Susan Thornton

How “Offensive Retrenchment” Plays Out in Venezuela and Iran | Zhao Minghao

Li Daokui: I Am Still Optimistic We Can Work Together

From Rivalry to ‘Coopetition’: How China Sees a World in Transition | Zhou Bo

Building a Functional Relationship | Susan Thornton

The Governance of China

Subsidies Do Not Explain China’s Competitiveness

Kai Guo
Executive President and Senior Fellow, CF40 Institute

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Revealing Approaches at AI Conference
China-UK Relations

How Would and Should Andy Burnham Engage with China?

Brian Wong
Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Fellow at Centre on Contemporary China and the World, HKU and Rhodes Scholar

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Brian WongThe Antidote for Autonomous AI – “One Union, Two Systems”
RMB

China's New Phase of Financial Statecraft and RMB Internationalisation

Matteo Giovannini
Senior Finance Manager at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China

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Matteo GiovanniniWhy Beijing Has Become the Essential Diplomatic Capital of the Multipolar Era
Global Trade

USMCA Review Reshapes China Trade Barriers

Ma Xue
Associate Fellow, Institute of American Studies, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations

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Ma XueA New Paradigm in China-U.S. Competition and Cooperation
U.S.-EU Relations

From Flattery to Strategy

Jade Wong
Senior Fellow, Gordon & Leon Institute

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Jade WongBad America, New NATO
World Cup

Keeping the Ball in Play: Sports, Rules, and U.S.-China Relations

James Chau
President, China-United States Exchange Foundation

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James ChauIndia’s Balancing Act | Ananth Krishnan
South Asia

China’s Minilateral and Multilateral Architecture in South Asia

Shantanu Roy-Chaudhury
Geopolitical Analyst and PhD scholar at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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China's New Phase of Financial Statecraft and RMB Internationalisation
China’s Economy

China’s Tech Push Is Running Into the Limits of Its Domestic Reform Agenda

Lizzi Lee, Huiyan Li

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China in WTO, What’s the Regret?
Multipolarization

A La Carte Multipolarity: The Philippines, China and Trump’s Iran War

Richard Javad Heydarian
Professorial Chairholder in Geopolitics, Polytechnic University of the Philippines

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Richard Javad HeydarianAmerica's Top Allies Court China
Chances Rise for Third-Party Military Incidents

Yang Xiao
Deputy Director of Institute of Maritime Strategy Studies, China Institute of Contemporary International Relations

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Yang XiaoProvocations in the South China Sea
Ukraine Crisis

A New Phase for Ukraine War

Xiao Bin
Deputy Secretary-general, Center for Shanghai Cooperation Organization Studies, Chinese Association of Social Sciences

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Xiao BinStepping Back from the Brink of War
NATO

NATO 3.0 Emerging After Ankara

Sun Chenghao
Fellow, Center for International Security and Strategy of Tsinghua University; Munich Young Leader 2025

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Sun ChenghaoTwo Approaches to Stability
Global Economy

The Mother of All Economic Shocks Is Chinese Mercantilism

Arvind Subramanian
Visiting lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

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Arvind SubramanianThe Paradox of China’s Globalization
Global Governance

How Small, Aggressive Allies Can Endanger Great Powers

Ted Galen Carpenter
Senior Fellow, Randolph Bourne Institute

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Ted Galen CarpenterHow Small, Aggressive Allies Can Endanger Great Powers
U.S. Leadership

250 Years of American State Capitalism

Shang-Jin Wei
Professor, Finance and Economics at Columbia University

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Shang-Jin WeiThe World Economy After the Trump-Xi Summit
U.S. Leadership

The Fraying Edges of American Primacy: Uncertainty, Fluidity and New Openings for New Configurations of Security

Warwick Powell
Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology

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Warwick PowellThe Fraying Anchor: Australia’s Alliance Dilemma in a Shifting Asia
WTO

China in WTO, What’s the Regret?

He Weiwen
Senior Fellow, Center for China and Globalization, CCG

Further reading

He WeiwenHard Work Ahead for China, U.S.
U.S.-Iran

Iran: The Misread Variable

Fu Zhuorui
Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia

Further reading

60-Day Countdown to U.S.-Iran Cease-Fire
Philippines

Japan, Philippines Turn Toward Each Other

Zhang Yun
Professor, School of International Relations, Nanjing University

Further reading

Zhang YunTension Behind Takaichi’s Visit to Washington
Drugs

Sino-U.S. Action Against Drugs Keeps Functional Cooperation High

Zha Daojiong
Professor, Peking University

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Zha DaojiongOpportunity in Afghanistan?
Energy Security

An Unwarranted War, a Global Economic Drag

Dan Steinbock
Founder, Difference Group

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Dan SteinbockU.S./Iran Energy Shock Damage is Spreading in Asia
China-EU Relations

Safeguarding China-EU Cooperation

Yu Xiang
Senior Fellow, China Construction Bank Research Institute

Further reading

Yu XiangAustralia at a Pressure Point
Global Governance

Three Components of China’s Mediation Diplomacy for Global Conflicts

Ghulam Ali
PhD, Monash University, Australia

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Ghulam AliShattered Illusions: U.S. Might Tested in Iran
U.S.-EU Relations

Could America Become Europe’s New China?

Sebastian Contin Trillo-Figueroa
Geopolitics Analyst in EU-Asia Relations and AsiaGlobal Fellow, The University of Hong Kong

Further reading

Sebastian Contin Trillo-FigueroaThe Untold Story of Two Aging Giants and One Growing Rival
Middle Powers

How Strategic Autonomy Is Reshaping the World

Li Yan
Director of President's Office, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations

Further reading

Li YanAI’s Mythos Moment Arrives
Bangladesh

Bangladesh as the Next Arena of U.S.-China Strategic Competition

Prateek Joshi
DPhil at the University of Oxford

Further reading

Why Beijing Has Become the Essential Diplomatic Capital of the Multipolar Era

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