Mainland scholars react to Putin mentioning China during the Carlson interview
“Ludicrous,” “useful idiot,” “Trump’s agent,” “Putin collaborator,” “absurd” etc. are some extreme reactions from the US/European political elite on the “scandalous” two-hour long “talk...
What is China debating? To cooperate with Washington or to prepare for the struggle against US imperialism?
The transformation in America’s attitude towards the People’s Republic of China since the Trump-era has been described as ‘dramatic’ in political circles. In the...
Is China failing like Japan ‘lost’ in the 1990s? New debate, old theme
The first time economists globally predicted China was going the Japanese ‘lost’ way was over a decade ago when China had just displaced Japan...
(When) Will the Ukraine Crisis End?
Tens and thousands of civilian-military people perished in the first year of the Russo-Ukraine war. And the war continues with no end in sight....
U.S. Is Threatening to Default China Debt Repayment, What Will Beijing Do?
Under Xi’s decade-long rule, China’s holding of US Treasury debt has been consistently declining, last year it fell by $173.2 billion – 17% of...
India-China Relations: A Decade of Escalating Border Dispute in the Himalayas, 2013-2023
It is not entirely wrong to link escalating border disputes in the Himalayas between India and China to the gradually intensifying US policy to...
Washington Gears Up to Take on China, Russia, and Iran at the Same Time
Calling President Biden a Cold War “warrior,” Chinese IR experts, by citing Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan last August and the recent US decision to...
China’s Zero-COVID U-Turn Lands the Country in Chaos: “Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t!”
For almost three years since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020, the international media consistently decried China’s zero-COVID strategy as “punishing”...
The Tawang Clash: Chinese Media, Scholars say it is an “advantage to Beijing” both on the ground and in the propaganda war
The world’s failure to “transform” China into a liberal polity following the communist nation’s “economic miracle” during the past four decades, is attributed to...
Olaf Scholz was in Beijing, is it Germany’s big bet on China or the other way around?
The visit of German chancellor Olaf Scholz to China this month generated mixed reactions, generally unsupportive, across European capitals as also in Washington. Within...