Written by Hessy Elliott
China’s accelerating AI innovation deserves the world’s full attention, but it is unhelpful to reduce all the many developments into a simplistic narrative about China as a threat or a villain.
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Written by Tereza Novotná
Brussels and Seoul share views on liberal values, global governance and the preservation of the rules-based international order. Since there is no major disagreement between them on these broader questions, what was the key take away from the EU-ROK summit?
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Written by Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy
In the words of European Council President Charles Michel, the EU has to recognize the two sides do not share the same values, political systems or approach to multilateralism. Significant tensions lie at the heart of their bilateral relations, which COVID-19 originating in Wuhan has amplified.
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Written by Shah Suraj Bharat
After Myanmar announced its COVID-19 Economic Relief Plan, analysts warned that Beijing would take advantage of these measures and push through infrastructure projects under the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC), which falls under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
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Written by Suyash Desai
Since 2013, the tempo of the People’s Liberation Army’s single and joint services exercises in Tibet have increased. The PLA has also started performing high altitude night-time military exercises and focused war-gaming in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau region.
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Written by Rohan Khattar Singh
China is currently operating as an external occupying force in Ladakh and the ties between the Han Chinese and Ladakh proper are (with close examination of the facts), non-existent in terms of the region’s history, ethnicity, religion and language.
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Written by Aayush Mohanty
Xi Jinping’s demand for total loyalty from the government’s bureaucracy has overruled decades of collective leadership, which previously afforded some flexibility toward policies and encouraged pragmatism over rigidity.
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Written by Simran Walia
Given the postponement of Xi’s visit to Japan this year due to COVID-19 and recent events in India, Japanese policymakers must now be wondering how and when China will target the Senkaku Islands.
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Written by Angana Guha Roy
In recent weeks South Korea has spoken about reopening a complaint filed with the WTO over Japan’s attempts to curb high end technology exports to its companies. This is just the latest turn in a continuation of Seoul’s bilateral trade dispute with Japan which started last year.
Read MoreWritten by Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy
Beijing’s approach is taking the international community further away, rather than closer to a strategy focused on human rights and accountability. As Beijing and Washington remain locked in rivalry, Beijing and Pyongyang share similar goals: the weakening of the US-South Korea alliance.
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Written by Charles Dunst
The Mekong, thanks to the level of Chinese control, is well on its way to becoming the next South China Sea: a strategic body of water to which China maintains expansive claims and over which it increasingly exercises control.
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Written by Saurabh Singh
Sri Lanka and its majors ports, as part of the Belt and Road Initiative, may just be the beginning of a wider programme of Chinese economic and military projects in the years ahead, with a major presence by Beijing becoming the new normal in South Asia.
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Written by Michael Trinkwalder and Sarah Aver
China was the first major economy to experience a COVID-19 related downturn, Beijing’s success in stamping out the virus now puts the country in a unique position to lead the global economic recovery, via the Belt and Road Initiative.
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Written by Ragini Kashyap
The Belt and Road is Beijing’s ‘Project of the Century’, with Morgan Stanley forecasting that China’s expenses along BRI could reach up to 1.3 trillion by 2027. But the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked the worst economic crisis in living memory, and China is facing domestic woes at home.
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Written by Ashutosh Nagda
By not issuing public support to Taiwan’s participation at the WHO, India aims to not provoke China. In return, the hope is that Beijing will be more lenient towards strengthening of Indo-Taiwanese ties in the near future.
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Written by Ambika Vishwanath
The Mekong River has been stressed with a number of water related events in the last two decades, some natural, many man-made. Beijing is committed to developing the Mekong basin and promises upstream activity will not hamper downstream flow, though that is not always the case.
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Written by Pranay Shome
As India prepares to take over the chair of the World Health Assembly, New Delhi is faced with a diplomatic dilemma: support the entry of Taiwan and risk antagonizing China or honour Beijing’s ‘One China’ principal.
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Written by Niranjan Marjani
16,000 African citizens live in Guangzhou in the Chinese province of Guangdong. After the COVID-19 outbreak, Africans living in China, especially Guangzhou, accused the Chinese authorities of undertaking acts of discrimination.
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