Gulf Peace: China’s Progress and U.S. Standstill
While US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was visiting the Middle East, delegations from Iran and Saudi Arabia secretly visited Beijing and...
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Perspective | Being Ethnically Ambiguous in a Race-Fueled America
No one I’ve met has ever been able to guess my race correctly. Not that it’s a competition, or that...
China, Money Can’t Buy You Love
The American political scientist Joseph Nye once said: “A country may obtain the outcomes it wants in world politics because...
China’s Political Awakening Amidst Zero-COVID
For three years, the CCP’s zero-COVID policy in the aftermath of the Wuhan outbreak has included mass lockdowns, excessive testings,...
China Is Lagging – The Worst Is Yet To Come
Recently, there has been much debate surrounding whether China can prevent a recession in the upcoming year. In reality, not...
Power Politics in the Arctic: China and India
The melting of the glaciers is changing geopolitical arrangements. In the Arctic, global warming is opening opportunities for the allocation...
Political Theater at the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
Held from October 16 to 22, China’s 20th Party Congress was a series of political spectacles. President Xi Jinping cemented...
China’s Party Congress and the End of Political Competition
When the Chinese Communist Party’s National Congress concludes, it is a ripe time for many observers of Chinese politics to...
Beijing – The Next Target of US Sanctions?
Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine has animated the use of economic sanctions in an unprecedented way. Strenuous US-China relations, exacerbated...
The Paradox of Post-Colonialism in Hong Kong
On September 16, I found myself entranced by a scene that had unfolded outside the British Consulate in Admiralty, the...
