If China’s dismal and declining approval ratings are any indication, the Philippine people are fast losing confidence in Duterte’s Beijing-friendly diplomacy, instead favoring a tougher approach to the South China Sea disputes.

China seeks to expand its influence in Europe as the trade war with the US wages on, while EU countries grow increasingly torn between the two global powers. China’s strategy to appeal to European nations has grown more nuanced and varied, working with an understanding of existing EU power dynamics.

Facts are being distorted for political purposes at high levels in the American government. While relations are better today than they were before Nixon, the road ahead may be fraught.

The United States-China trade war will make us all poorer and exacerbate the risks of war.

By all appearances, the goal of anti-China hawks is to suppress the country’s rise and gain flexibility to interfere around the globe. But decoupling will only create a political and economic crisis.

A tragic sensibility after the experience of two world wars compelled the United States to establish a new international order backed by American power. After decades of relative peace and prosperity, however, this sensibility is waning – as the United States demonstrates a lack of collective will to maintain its position on the global stage. As China increasingly assumes the position of a world power, it must maintain its tragic sensibility and awareness of crisis.

As U.S. policy has grown increasingly aggressive, China’s posture has shifted, with long-term effects.

China unveiled this week photos of its next-generation spacecraft that would allow astronauts to travel to the moon.

The growing anti-China sentiment in the United States is counterproductive to the trade relationship between the two countries. Americans must understand that this bilateral trade relationship is, in fact, beneficial to both nations.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s address to the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly expressed to the world that the United States is pushing an increasingly nationalist agenda, much to the concern of many other nations. What are the implications of Trump’s message for the rest of the world?