Victor K. Fung, Group Chair of the Fung Group, Vice Chairman of China-United States Exchange Foundation
Feb 22, 2022
I strongly believe it is time for the trade war between the U.S. and China to be placed in abeyance. With inflation increasing in the U.S. and with the growth of China’s domestic consumption slowing, I am sure the will must be there on both sides.
Yi Fan, a Beijing-based writer on international affairs
Feb 22, 2022
Half a century ago this month, Chinese leaders received Richard Nixon on a historic visit that ended two decades of estrangement between China and the U.S. The visit has been rightly hailed as an example of diplomacy and statesmanship at their best.
Tom Watkins, Advisor, Michigan-China Innovation Center
Feb 20, 2022
The visions of Xi Jinping and Joe Biden clearly spell out two trajectories - one of ascendance and the other fighting to retain fading power and influence.
Lucio Blanco Pitlo III, Research Fellow, Asia-Pacific Pathways to Progress
Feb 20, 2022
Cambodia’s close relationship with China has become a model for what it can look like when a nation stays in Beijing’s good graces. Now, its Prime Minister is ascending to lead ASEAN in 2022, setting the stage for a potentially dramatic turn of events in the region, whose members diverge on their feelings towards China’s influence.
An Gang, Adjunct Fellow, Center for International Security and Strategy, Tsinghua University
Feb 20, 2022
Unlike the warmth it showed China during the 2008 Summer Olympics, the United States has adopted a chilly mindset for the 2022 Winter Games. In fact, relations seem headed for an extended ice age.
Cui Liru, Former President, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations
Feb 16, 2022
American anxiety about China shows that China has become a “near-peer” competitor to the United States. But the process of competition will not be dictated by the U.S. alone. The impact will only be revealed through interaction over time and the handling of key issues.
Feb 13, 2022
China and Russia presented a united front and said their partnership has "no limits."
Zhang Yun, Associate Professor, National Niigata University in Japan
Feb 13, 2022
The United States and its allies need to make a strategic shift in their Asian strategy, away from their highly militarized mindset and toward thinking about what countries in the region want.
Richard Javad Heydarian, Professorial Chairholder in Geopolitics, Polytechnic University of the Philippines
Feb 12, 2022
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen will assume leadership of ASEAN this year, and bring with him a positive attitude towards China and a recent history of disengagement with the West. Observers expect that the regional organization’s agenda will turn away from topics that will directly challenge China’s influence over Southeast Asia.
Philip Cunningham, Independent Scholar
Feb 12, 2022
The United States seems to always have a choice jab ready for China, despite weathering an election insurrection a year ago and simmering tensions over COVID-19 responses within its own borders.