Trilateral Diplomacy: East Asia’s Response to U.S. Tariff Pressures
Undoubtedly, Trump’s “tariffs” shock wave is being viewed as the key driving factor behind the March 2025 trilateral ministerial gathering of China, Japan, and...
DeepSeek, Mandarin and Alphabet?
Worried for the future of China, the most influential and popular modern Chinese writer, essayist and thinker Lu Xun (1881-1936) dared his fellow Chinese...
Russia-China Relations: Can Trump create a Wedge between Moscow and Beijing?
It follows that in the aftermath of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine in February 2022, as the West “attempted to ‘cancel’ Russia by...
Whither India-China Relations?
In April 1924, standing next to a lifelike statue of an Indian Buddhist monk in Hangzhou, Tagore promised to the Chinese people saying: “We...
Scholars in China: Biden ‘digging holes’ for Trump’s China policy before leaving office?
President Biden cautioned Donald Trump on Thanksgiving Day and hoped his soon-to-be successor’s announcement the previous day to increase import tariffs on Canada, Mexico...
Trump Wins US Election: Diverse, Conflicting Early Reactions in China
As on domestic issues, three politically distinct and ideologically conflicting early reactions emerged in China to Donald Trump declaring his victory in the 2024...
Shigeru Ishiba calls for ‘Asian NATO’. Has the new Japanese PM grossly misread war in Ukraine?
As the war in Ukraine entered its third year, experts in Europe feared a dark future for the region with the prospect of a...
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...