Brian Wong, DPhil in Politics candidate and Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford
Jan 19, 2023
Recent headlines have broadcasted the Gulf Cooperation Council’s new deal with China, with tens of billions of dollars. Some may see it as a signal of a coming divorce with the West, but careful analysis reveals that the GCC can balance relations to both sides.
Sebastian Contin Trillo-Figueroa, European Union consultant, AsiaGlobal Fellow at Asia Global Institute, HKU
Jan 03, 2023
The race of geopolitical strategies based on infrastructural development abroad is a part of the new great powers rivalry. The so-called geo-economics contest (Luttwak) is the new global battle, a competition through commerce for getting economic advantages at the intersection of investments and loans, contracts opportunities, conquest of more worldwide market share and improvement of own supply chains, with the declared noble aim of contributing to global development.
Lucio Blanco Pitlo III, Research Fellow, Asia-Pacific Pathways to Progress
Nov 14, 2022
China’s next move is the subject of much speculation and worry for observers and enemies. The current conditions of today’s geopolitical stage should lead China towards its Southeast Asian neighbors in what may be its next international outreach campaign.
Wang Yiwei, Jean Monnet Chair Professor, Renmin University of China
Chen Chao, PhD Candidate, School of International Relations at Renmin University of China
Apr 20, 2022
The world is largely off track in terms of achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. But China’s Global Development Initiative and Belt and Road Initiative can work together for a better future.
Leonardo Dinic, Advisor to the CroAsia Institute
Mar 04, 2022
The EU’s Global Gateway project is an answer to China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and one that the EU hopes will provide a more liberal-led alternative to China’s investments. Whether or not a values-based approach to development will remain to be seen.
Leonardo Dinic, Advisor to the CroAsia Institute
Aug 18, 2021
The historic completion of the Pelješac bridge in Croatia marks the first time a Chinese firm and the EU have completed a project together, setting the stage for the BRI’s implementation in Eastern Europe.
Leonardo Dinic, Advisor to the CroAsia Institute
Aug 03, 2021
China’s Belt and Road Initiative is clearly mapping out its ambitions for global influence challenging the primacy of the U.S. Now, Western allies have presented a B3W Partnership to challenge China with additional global infrastructure investment.
Leonardo Dinic, Advisor to the CroAsia Institute
Aug 03, 2021
The Group of Seven’s (G7) fixation on China and Russia is problematic because member countries still have serious internal problems related to their domestic economies and income inequality.
Zhao Minghao, Professor, Institute of International Studies, Fudan University
Jul 01, 2021
The U.S. and others should help developing countries solve their problems, rather than using them as a playing field in a geopolitical competition with China. Excessive competition will not lead to the better world that the American president says he seeks.
Mikaila Smith, J.D. Candidate at the University of Chicago Law School
May 08, 2021
Australia’s outlier history as a “Western” nation situated in the Pacific means it’s caught in the middle of simmering global tensions between China and the U.S.