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The Role of Chinese Research Centers in Promoting China’s Initiatives Across the Global South
Several Chinese research centers are actively working to strengthen relations between China and the Global South (Asia, Africa, and Latin America) through research in...
ASEAN’s Chip Ambitions: A Strategic Opening for Taiwan
Recognising the need to diversify and move beyond low value-added and commodity-based growth, ASEAN has now started to increasingly turn its focus toward higher-value,...
You Can’t Buy Peace: Trump’s Economic Fantasy Across Three Wars
President Donald Trump's son-in-law stood before global elites in Davos last week and unveiled renderings of a "New Gaza"—glittering skyscrapers along the Mediterranean, data...
85 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT: What Global Risks are pushing Humanity to the Brink?
Midnight representing a global catastrophe, one brought on by human decisions rather than just nature or fate. An imagined moment of civilization`s dimise is...
When War Stops Being Unspeakable
I remember sitting at a symposium in Berlin, listening to foreign policy experts speak about a potential war with Russia. Predictions were flying around...
China’s Maritime Pincer from the Malacca Strait to the Mediterranean
The Ream naval base in Cambodia is part of “China's String of Pearls strategy”, a naval military strategy of the People's Liberation Army (PLA)...
China Seeks Military Foothold in Egypt, Courting Elites to Counter U.S. Influence training
The relationship between the Nasser Military Academy—now renamed the Military Academy for Postgraduate and Strategic Studies—and Chinese military institutions is undergoing a qualitative transformation...
Transnistria: Russia, the EU, and the Persistence of a Frozen Conflict
The Transnistrian conflict is a long-standing territorial dispute in Eastern Europe and has been ongoing since the early 1990s. Emerging from the collapse of...
Belt and Road Becomes Key Tool in China’s Push to Enforce One-China Policy
China employs an intensive diplomatic and economic strategy with countries of the Global South (Africa, Arab states, Latin America, and Asia) to solidify the...
China’s Infrastructure Loans Raise Fears of Sovereignty Loss
Whether Chinese infrastructure loans constitute a “debt trap” threatening the sovereignty of host countries is a highly contested and controversial issue, the subject of...