Paul Haenle, Director, Carnegie–Tsinghua Center
Apr 03, 2018
China appeared increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of South Korea and the United States in the lead and in control of the direction of diplomacy with North Korea. Now, Xi has had the opportunity to influence the terms of any future agreement.
Zha Daojiong, Professor, Peking University
Apr 03, 2018
Extensive official news reporting about the trip says very little about anything resembling mutual commitment.
Su Xiaohui, Deputy Director of Int'l & Strategic Studies, CIIS
Apr 03, 2018
The positive changes in the past few months have vindicated China’s ideas.
Chen Jimin, Guest Researcher, Center for Peace and Development Studies, China Association for International Friendly Contact
Mar 29, 2018
China needs to keep its composure and resist the impulse towards a strategic showdown with the United States.
Abraham M. Denmark, Director of the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Mar 28, 2018
The danger of a make-or-break summit between President Trump and Kim Jong-un is that it may break, and convince either or both leaders that diplomacy is doomed to fail.
An Gang, Adjunct Fellow, Center for International Security and Strategy, Tsinghua University
Mar 28, 2018
Can anyone trust Kim’s promises – or Trump’s?
Ted Galen Carpenter, Senior Fellow, Randolph Bourne Institute
Mar 27, 2018
Recent actions that Congress and President Trump have taken threaten to shatter a crucial, delicate balance in U.S. policy towards Taiwan. Their conduct provokes China and is heightening already worrisome tensions between Washington and Beijing. U.S. officials need to reassess their course of action before it triggers a major crisis in East Asia.
Matthew Schmidt, Assistant Professor at the University of New Haven
Mar 26, 2018
Mike Pompeo, President Trump’s likely nominee to be the next Secretary of State, should be seen as a signal that the administration of President Trump is about to paint China as the new public enemy number one.
Richard Javad Heydarian, Professorial Chairholder in Geopolitics, Polytechnic University of the Philippines
Mar 26, 2018
In a telltale sign of improving bilateral relations, the Philippines and China have announced a preliminary agreement to pursue a joint development agreement in the South China Sea.
Zhou Bo, Senior Fellow, Center for International Security and Strategy, Tsinghua University
Mar 26, 2018
The Trump-Kim summit is a beginning, but there’s no telling how it’ll end.