Chinese President Xi Jinping’s New “Four Comprehensives” are a rebuke of the West
By Jeff J. Brown
President Xi Jinping fully understands that China’s freedom from Western exploitation, its successful, independent economic and geopolitical policies, and the...
China’s Path To Health Policy Reform
By Åke Blomqvist
Serious problems arose in the health care sector when China introduced market-based methods of economic management, as rising out-of-pocket costs impoverished families...
China in Africa: Think again
By Deborah Bräutigam
You think you know what China is doing in Africa. You’ve seen the headlines: the Chinese arrived in Africa a few years...
China and the US Are Locked in Struggle – And the Visit by Secretary...
By Krista Wiegand
In the weeks building up to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to China on June 18-19, 2023, there was a...
Is There a Future for Obama’s Pivot to Asia?
By Sholto Byrnes
Since Barack Obama came to office in 2009, a signature policy of his administration has been the “pivot to Asia”. Much time...
2017: Three Great Expectations
By Tommy Koh
In this article, the author discusses three events that will be important in 2017. These are Donald Trump's inauguration as the 45th...
Trump’s Feeble Phase 1 China-US Trade Deal
By Dr. Jack Rasmus
With the announcement today, January 16, 2020 of the signing of the US-China Phase 1 ‘mini’ trade deal, and the US...
How China is Increasing its Influence in Central Asia as Part of Global Plans...
By Stefan Wolff
As G7 leaders were preparing for their recent summit in Japan, China’s president Xi Jinping hosted his central Asian counterparts from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,...
Why Pushing For an Economic ‘Alliance’ with The US to Counter Chinese Coercion Would...
By James Laurenceson
The Australian government desperately hopes this week’s AUSMIN meetings between Australian and US officials will see greater practical American support being delivered...
The China Model: a Civilizational-State Perspective
By Zhang Weiwei
China’s dramatic rise should be understood in the context of China as a civilizational state, i.e. an amalgam of the world’s oldest...
