Written by Zhongdong Niu
Huawei and TikTok were two of the most successful examples of globalisation. Huawei has risen to become a world champion in telecommunications. TikTok was only launched in 2016, but is now the fourth most popular app in the world. Both of these Chinese companies are now at the mercy of a widening geopolitical divide.
Read MoreWritten by Miriam L. Campanella
Going down the path of financial decoupling is far riskier strategy than imposing tariffs. The Trump Administration risks fragmenting the global financial system. This in turn risks destabilizing the global growth, and heralds the return of a financial Iron Curtain between East and West.
Read MoreWritten by Tridivesh Singh Maini
Important transport projects include a 2,300-kilometre road, which will connect Tehran with Urumqi in China's Xinjiang province. The aim of which will be to link up with the Urumqi-Gwadar highway, itself an important component of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
Read MoreWritten by Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy and Ma Junjie
Germany’s economic might has been decisive in shaping bilateral ties, but also EU-China relations. Trade cooperation has ensured Berlin a position of strength within the EU vis-à-vis China. But cooperation has turned into rivalry, jeopardising Germany’s leading role in high-tech manufacturing.
Read MoreWritten 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.
Read MoreWritten 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?
Read MoreWritten 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.
Read MoreWritten 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).
Read MoreWritten 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.
Read MoreWritten 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.
Read MoreWritten 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.
Read MoreWritten 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.
Read MoreWritten 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.
Read MoreWritten 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.
Read MoreWritten 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.
Read MoreWritten 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.
Read MoreWritten 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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