Richard Weitz, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
Sep 25, 2025
The new Global Governance Initiative that President Xi presented at the recent SCO and BRICS summits represents the most direct Chinese challenge to the U.S.-led global order since the Cold War. The United States needs to strengthen its counter-messaging in response.
Zhang Wenzong, Associate Research Fellow, CICIR
Sep 12, 2025
It should not be difficult for politicians of insight to choose between joining hands to build a community with a shared future for mankind or becoming powerful countries’ pawns to fight and exhaust one another.
Xiao Bin, Deputy Secretary-general, Center for Shanghai Cooperation Organization Studies, Chinese Association of Social Sciences
Sep 02, 2025
Turbulence has overwhelmed the current international system and SCO member states are feeling a profound impact. The Tianjin Summit is designed to further deepen multilateral cooperation and to provide a new center for global strategic stability.
Xiao Bin, Deputy Secretary-general, Center for Shanghai Cooperation Organization Studies, Chinese Association of Social Sciences
Sep 02, 2025
Turbulence has overwhelmed the current international system and SCO member states are feeling a profound impact. The Tianjin Summit is designed to further deepen multilateral cooperation and to provide a new center for global strategic stability.
Zhang Yun, Professor, School of International Relations, Nanjing University
Jul 25, 2024
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s principle that economic development and security are inseparable, is far more advanced than NATO’s exclusive security concept and will inevitably become mainstream in the field of international security.
Guan Guihai, Executive Vice President, Institute of International and Strategic Studies
Jul 09, 2024
Given the many views of its members — which often do not align — deciding which path to take and how that process works are of fundamental importance to the international organization’s existence and operation.
Xiao Bin, Deputy Secretary-general, Center for Shanghai Cooperation Organization Studies, Chinese Association of Social Sciences
Jul 09, 2024
Within the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the need to transform into a constructive force for regional peace, stability, prosperity and development aligns with the need for development, now and in the future.
Xiao Bin, Deputy Secretary-general, Center for Shanghai Cooperation Organization Studies, Chinese Association of Social Sciences
Jul 12, 2023
Some ponder what the future of the organization will look like given internal divisions, a hollowing-out of cooperation and the isolation of some member countries by the West.
Xiao Bin, Deputy Secretary-general, Center for Shanghai Cooperation Organization Studies, Chinese Association of Social Sciences
Apr 12, 2023
Interstate political relations are changing the dynamics of the international system. China’s relationship with Russia has become a tool for balancing the shifting pres-sures. But no country can predict the consequences of war. Staying out of it may be the best way to maximize gains.
Leonardo Dinic, Expert in Geopolitics and International Business, the Future of Work, and Emerging Technologies
Dec 22, 2022
As the U.S. seeks to advance its position and strengthen the U.S. dollar global dominance, it is also facing challenges and an anti-hegemonic sentiment from other states. Events such as the war in Ukraine, tensions between the U.S., Russia, and China, as well as new strategic partnerships developed between China and Europe, Latin America, and Africa, are driving forces in the shift of balance of power to non-Western nations.