Playing Genocide Politics: The Zenz-Xinjiang Case
By Dr Dan Steinbock
Recently, the Trump and Biden administrations have initiated a genocide case against China. Like during the Cold War, some European leaders...
China does not want war, at least not yet. It’s playing the long game
By John Blaxland
Talk of war has become louder in recent days, but the “drumbeat” has been heard for some time now as China’s military...
Global recovery 2021 and the dark legacies of Smoot-Hawley
By Dr. Dan Steinbock
In 2021, China’s economic momentum will drive global economic prospects. But new trade wars could derail global recovery, again.
In the...
Flawed human information processing, magic pipers and our conscience
By Bernard Yeung
Fierce competition between dominant countries leads to accusatory narratives, creating intense but dysfunctional crowd emotions. Flawed human behaviour allows a big gap...
Blinken’s China vision: A Foreign Policy Not for American People
By Dr. Dan Steinbock
In contrast to the hopes of moderate bipartisan voices, Blinken's China vision builds on the Trump-Pompeo unipolarity, at the expense of...
How China’s public diplomacy is changing under Xi Jinping
By Dr Yan Wu and Richard Thomas
Joe Biden’s election victory was greeted with cautious optimism by Chinese state media. However, while the English-language Global...
China – Peacefully Forward into the Great Change
By Peter Koenig
On 25th January, during the first session of the virtual World Economic Forum (WEF), President Xi Jinping, in his address stated...
Jack Ma: China’s spat with billionaire is part of bigger push to control big...
By Mark Greeven
Chinese tech billionaire Jack Ma has allegedly fallen out with the Beijing government. Several recent articles reported that Ma offended the Chinese authorities by delivering...
Taking China to the World Trade Organisation plants a seed. It won’t be a...
By Dr Weihuan Zhou and Lisa Toohey
Australia is reportedly ready to initiate its first litigation against China at the World Trade Organisation.
China has this year taken punitive...
G20: led by Russia and China, world’s ‘emerging powers’ look to push unified agenda
By Xuebing Cao
One thing the coronavirus pandemic has meant for world leaders is that it has simplified their international calendars somewhat. Take the...
