Ukraine War: What China Gains from Acting as Peacemaker
By Stefan Wolff and Tetyana Malyarenko
After more than a year of no direct communication, the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, and Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky,...
Can China Broker Peace in Yemen – and Further Beijing’s Middle East Strategy in...
By Mahad Darar
After nearly a decade of grinding conflict, Yemen looks to be inching toward a peace deal.
Talks between the Houthi movement controlling much of...
Philippine Crossroads: US Militarization Over Chinese Development
By Dr. Dan Steinbock
Manila is facing an existential crossroads, as evidenced by new challenges of militarization and uncertainty in...
Why the World Should Take Notice as Saudi Arabia Joins Chinese Alliance – And...
By Andrew MacLeod
Saudi Arabia’s cabinet recently approved the decision to join the China-led Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).
This could be a signal that Riyadh, with all its...
US-China Tensions: How Africa Can Avoid Being Caught in a New Cold War
By John J Stremlau
China’s foreign ministry published a 4,000-word analysis entitled US Hegemony and its Perils on 20 February. It’s an indictment of alleged US foreign...
The Odd Track-Record of the International Criminal Court
By Dan Steinbock
The ICC wants to probe ex-President Duterte’s drug war. The Philippines government rejects the effort. Whose justice does ICC represent?
Recently,...
The Political Economy of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the Growing Regional Multilateral Ties
By Kalim Siddiqui
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) was founded in 1996 by the People’s Republic of China, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan in order to...
The View From Moscow and Beijing: What Peace in Ukraine and a Post-conflict World...
By Ronald Suny
Just a few days after being branded a war criminal in an international arrest warrant, Russian President Vladimir Putin was talking peace with his...
A More Hawkish China Policy? 5 Takeaways From House Committee’s Inaugural Hearing on Confronting...
By Michael Beckley
In a rare show of bipartisanship, Republican and Democratic House members put on a united front as they probed how to respond to...
Ukraine: Beijing’s Peace Initiative Offers Glimpse at How China Plans to Win the War
By Stefan Wolff
Beijing’s “Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis” has now been officially released by the country’s foreign ministry, after being foreshadowed by China’s top...
