Dialogue, Mutual Respect & Mutual Trust bracing Sino-U.S. Relations
Authors: Wang Li & Fan Yao-tian During August 15-17, Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited China,...
Doklam Plateau Standoff or South China Sea: Chinese Active Defence Strategy turns into Incremental Encroachments
As Comprehensive National Power (CNP) of China is growing, its strategy to impose its national will (as perceived by its few key leaders), exercise...
China and Turkey Aspiring for the Greatness in the World
Authors: Wang Li & Fan Yao-tian During his 2-day visit to China (August 2-3), Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu of Turkey informed the media that...
Why does China need a “support” base in Djibouti?
For four decades since 1949, Chinese government vowed not to send a single soldier abroad during the peacetime. This statement sounds credible because the...
South China Sea: The Silent Hotspot
While the media is currently consumed with North Korea, the Russian/Trump fiasco, and ISIS, a new silent issue is arising in the Far East....
BRICS not to break as standing together
Authors: Wang Wei, Edward Lai The concept of the “BRIC” began to affect the audiences in 2001 when economist Jim O’Neill first used the...
The “Third Neighbor Policy” of Mongolia: Romantic or Realistic?
On July 10, the president-elect Kh. Battulga was inaugurated at the State House in Ulan Bator, where he vowed to resume the “third neighbor...
The North Korean Enigma Part II: Economic Ties and the Banyan Tree
About a hundred miles north of Bangalore, India, in the village of Thimmamma Marrimanu grows an eponymous banyan tree. There are all kinds of...
Xi Jinping in Moscow for the entente between China and Russia
Although China and Russia never use the term of ally to describe their current relationship, the entente has been the fait accompli between the...
The North Korean Enigma Part I: War and Peace
The North Koreans sent the U.S. a gift on its July 4th Independence Day. In the morning, -- their time, it was still July...