Liu Junhong Researcher, Chinese Institute of Contemporary Int'l Relations
Nov 23, 2020
The agreement marks the emergence of constructive rules for the entire East Asia region. The parties no longer look to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, with its burdensome provisions, as a model template.
Chen Jimin Associate Research Fellow, CPC Party School
Nov 03, 2020
It’s true that the U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy has brought certain pressures and challenges to China, but these are manageable, given the thinning resources of the United States and the ability of Chinese diplomacy to adapt.
Luo Xi Research Fellow, Academic of Military Science of China
Oct 27, 2020
Emerging technologies are bringing advanced capabilities to more countries and adding new ambiguities, which only increase risk. Failing to strengthen controls now will lead to a new arms race.
Richard Javad Heydarian Philippine-based academic
Aug 16, 2020
Since the 1970s, the US has tread a fine line of pursuing neutrality on claims to the South China Sea. The Trump administration, however, looks set to upend that policy.
Lye Liang Fook Senior Fellow, Regional Strategic and Political Studies, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
Dec 17, 2019
The role of small countries, whether in terms of moral influence, upholding free and open trade or promoting regional peace and stability, should not be underestimated.
Zhang Monan Senior Fellow, China Center for International Economic Exchanges
Nov 20, 2019
As the WTO-led multilateral trading system has weakened, free trade areas are driving the process of laying down international rules.
Richard Javad Heydarian Philippine-based academic
Oct 22, 2019
Increasing cooperation between the Philippines and Russia suggests that there is a burgeoning relationship in the East that may lessen the Philippines’ dependency on the United States. Such a relationship also has implications for China’s involvement in the disputed South China Sea.
Giulio Pugliese King’s College London, War Studies
Oct 10, 2019
The United States-China trade war will make us all poorer and exacerbate the risks of war.
Jonathan Woetzel McKinsey Senior Partner
Jeongmin Seong Senior Fellow, McKinsey Global Institute in Shanghai
Oct 08, 2019
In the nineteenth century, the world was Europeanized. In the twentieth century, it was Americanized. Now, it is being Asianized – and much faster than you may think.
Vali Nasr Professor of International Politics, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
Sep 27, 2019
China and the United States find themselves in a situation that is gradually souring, but the current US strategy towards China is not exclusively a Trumpian one.