Ambitious China gears up to flex power in the conflict-riven Horn of Africa
With the announcement to appoint a special envoy to the Horn of Africa, China has entered the “Scramble for Africa.” The stated objective of...
Can “good emperor” Xi ride over factional fights into a third term?
As 2022 begins to unfold, mainstream global media – including the “gossipy” Chinese language Asian press, are agog with news commentaries and op-ed pieces...
Why will China not give up on its ‘dynamic zeroing’ Covid-19 strategy?
The world is again at war with China. This time, the war is not about China’s aggressive “wolf warrior” diplomacy; nor is it about...
Is Biden A Cold War Warrior? A Typical US Politician? Both? Or None?
Joe Biden entered the White House with two extraordinary qualifications which no other US president could match in the past seventy years: nearly 50...
The China Factor in Elections in Japan and Germany
Having won the leadership race for the ruling LDP, former foreign minister Fumio Kishida is set to become Japan’s next prime minister within a...
Japanese firms’ slow and steady exit is sounding alarm bells in Beijing
Last year in March, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had indicated Japan would initiate measures to reduce the country heavily relying on China for...
A Likely Biden-Xi Sit-down in Rome: G20 aka G2?
The US administration officials are citing the same three factors for a possible Biden-Xi summit in coming October as they were for the 3-hour...
As ‘Ping Pong Diplomacy’ Completes Fifty Years, ‘Diplomacy’ is Missing in the US-China Ties
Before the anti-China consensus became fashionable among the bipartisan US political elite during the Trump years, headwinds against Beijing were blowing in Washington by...
Is Covid-19 Zoonotic, Natural or Lab-engineered?
President Trump led the US government propaganda that Coronavirus originated in WIV. However, even after twelve months the US government failed to provide factual...
Taiwan: The First and Oldest ‘Thorn’ between China and the West (part 2)
In the first part of the article, we noted Taiwan has returned as one of the thorniest issues in the US policy toward China...