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BRICS

Climate Action Can Drive the Future of BRICS

Ananth Krishnan
Director at The Hindu Group, and AsiaGlobal Fellow at University of Hong Kong

Further reading

Ananth KrishnanEnter the Middle Power Era: Can Middle Powers Provide Stability to a Fraying World Order?
Climate Change

While China Prepares for a Climate-Disrupted Future, the U.S. Is Taking a Different Path

Taylah Bland
Senior Program Officer for the China Climate Hub, Asia Society Policy Institute

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Taylah Bland Why Climate Adaptation and Resilience Could Form a New Frontier of U.S.-China Climate Engagement

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

BRICS

Climate Action Can Drive the Future of BRICS

Ananth Krishnan
Director at The Hindu Group, and AsiaGlobal Fellow at University of Hong Kong

Further reading

Ananth KrishnanEnter the Middle Power Era: Can Middle Powers Provide Stability to a Fraying World Order?
Climate Change

While China Prepares for a Climate-Disrupted Future, the U.S. Is Taking a Different Path

Taylah Bland
Senior Program Officer for the China Climate Hub, Asia Society Policy Institute

Further reading

Taylah Bland Why Climate Adaptation and Resilience Could Form a New Frontier of U.S.-China Climate Engagement
The 21th CPC Party Congress

Mapping China’s Provincial Leadership: Birthplace Distribution and Non-local Appointments

Li Cheng, Du Lang

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Li ChengUnderstanding Beijing from the Provinces: The Age Composition of Provincial Leaders One Year Prior to the 21st Party Congress
Ukraine Crisis

Ukraine War Breaking Beyond Its Borders

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

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Xiao BinA New Phase for Ukraine War
BRICS

Hot Topics and Priorities in New Delhi

Wang Youming
Senior Research Fellow of BRICS Economic Think Tank, Tsinghua University

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Wang YoumingThree Major Forces in Global Governance
U.S.-Iran

Mecca Agreement Underscores Distrust in U.S.

He Wenping
Senior Research Fellow, Charhar Institute and West Asia and Africa Studies Institute of the China Academy of Social Sciences

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He WenpingSome Western Powers Say They’ll Recognize State of Palestine
Japan

Judging Japan’s Identity as a Peaceful Nation

Zhang Yun
Professor, School of International Relations, Nanjing University

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Zhang YunJapan, Philippines Turn Toward Each Other
AI Safety

Claude vs. Kimi

Philip Cunningham
Independent Scholar

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Philip CunninghamUniversal Health Care: What the Socialists Got Right and the Capitalists Got Wrong
China-ASEAN Relations

Why Beijing Cannot Take ASEAN’s Openness for Granted

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 WongHow Would and Should Andy Burnham Engage with China?
Supply Chains

Can Pax Silica De-sinicize U.S. Supply Chains?

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

Further reading

Lucio Blanco Pitlo IIIIntegrating New Energy and Aquaculture: Practical Cooperation in the South China Sea

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

The Road to the 21st Party Congress

AI Safety

If China Wins AI Race, Global South Wins Too

Zhou Xiaoming
Former Deputy Permanent Representative of China’s Mission to the UN Office in Geneva

Further reading

Zhou XiaomingU.S. 301 Tariffs: A New Trade Architecture
Ebola

The Ebola Crisis and Global Health Emergencies

Dan Steinbock
Founder, Difference Group

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Dan SteinbockAn Unwarranted War, a Global Economic Drag
AI Safety

Who Wins the Robot Revolution?

Christopher A. McNally
Professor of Political Economy, Chaminade University

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Christopher A. McNallyThe Dawn of a New Geoeconomics
China’s Economy

China’s Economy Presses Forward Despite Headwinds

Xu Hongcai
Deputy Director, Economic Policy Commission

Further reading

Xu HongcaiPolicy Goals Set for Greater Development
Asian Security

A New Asian Security Architecture?

Warwick Powell
Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology

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Warwick PowellThe Fraying Edges of American Primacy: Uncertainty, Fluidity and New Openings for New Configurations of Security
Global Governance

What Role Does UK Seek to Play?

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

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Sun ChenghaoNATO 3.0 Emerging After Ankara
U.S. Economy

Learning from China, Selectively

Yu Xiang
Senior Fellow, China Construction Bank Research Institute

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Yu XiangSafeguarding China-EU Cooperation
Global Governance

U.S. Initiative Intensifies AI Competition

Fan Gaoyue
Guest Professor at Sichuan University, Former Chief Specialist at PLA Academy of Military Science

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Fan GaoyueTrump Corollary Destroys International Order
U.S.-Iran

U.S. "Conflict Model" No Longer Works in Iran

Han Liqun
Researcher, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations

Further reading

Han LiqunUAE’s Exit from OPEC Pulls it Toward U.S.
AI Safety

China Builds a Systemic Edge in AI

Wang Dong, Zhang Xueyu

Further reading

Wang DongAdvantages of a UN Hub in Asia
American Politics

America’s New Democratic Socialism

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

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Li YanHow Strategic Autonomy Is Reshaping the World
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

Further reading

Miao YanliangThe Dilemma of Central Banking
AI Safety

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

Yang Wang, Brian Wong

Further reading

Brian WongWhy Beijing Cannot Take ASEAN’s Openness for Granted
Monetary Order

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

Nicola Casarini
Senior Fellow, Istituto Affari Internazionali

Further reading

Nicola CasariniThe Belt and Road’s Enduring European Presence
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
Oil Price

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

Kathryn Neville
Founder of Spark Energy Intelligence

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

Subsidies Do Not Explain China’s Competitiveness

Kai Guo
Executive President and Senior Fellow, CF40 Institute

Further reading

Revealing Approaches at AI Conference
RMB

China's New Phase of Financial Statecraft and RMB Internationalisation

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

Further reading

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

Further reading

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

Further reading

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

Further reading

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

Further reading

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

Further reading

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

Further reading

Richard Javad HeydarianAmerica's Top Allies Court China
Ukraine Crisis

A New Phase for Ukraine War

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

Further reading

Xiao BinUkraine War Breaking Beyond Its Borders
Global Economy

The Mother of All Economic Shocks Is Chinese Mercantilism

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

Further reading

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

Further reading

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

Further reading

Shang-Jin WeiThe World Economy After the Trump-Xi Summit

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