While Western leaders rushed to Israel as a bloody war between Israel and Hamas threatens to spiral out of control, guests at the 2023 Belt and Road Forum in Beijing were treated to a sumptuous 12-course meal and an opera...
In a surprise deal facilitated by China on Friday, Iran and Saudi Arabia announced that they would resume their diplomatic relations. The deal is a breakthrough for the two Middle Eastern rivals, who will reopen their embassies...
A series of recent surveys shows how Chinese diplomacy in the era of Xi Jinping has soured attitudes toward China in many developed countries. At the same time, Chinese officials are doubling down on their foreign policy...
On Thursday, a draft document outlining a security cooperation agreement between China and the Solomon Islands was leaked online. The proposed agreement opens the possibility of a greater Chinese military presence on the...
In his book “Destined for War: Can American and China Escape the Thucydides’s...
After popular votes late last year, Washington and Colorado are now the first two U.S. states to...
At Foreign Policy, Minxin Pei argues that China’s continued rise is not a foregone conclusion, and that the U.S. should ready itself for a Chinese decline. Americans, he suggests, have long tended to overestimate the...
Kenneth G. Lieberthal, co-author of a recent Brookings paper characterizing the U.S.-China relationship as one based on “strategic distrust,” spoke with NPR’s Robert Siegel on today’s episode of All...
A new paper by Brookings looks at the relationship of “strategic distrust” between China and the U.S., written by Kenneth G. Lieberthal, Director, John L. Thornton China Center and Wang Jisi, Director, Center for...
The libertarian Reason Magazine offers a perspective on President Obama’s comments about China in his recent State of the Union address: In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama urged Americans and...
As President Obama visits his boyhood home of Indonesia, the New York Times looks at the growing rivalry between the U.S. and China to influence the country: As the United States and China step up their rivalry in Southeast...
From an op-ed in the International Herald Tribune by Robert D. Kaplan, senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and a correspondent for The Atlantic: Today China’s ambitions are as aggressive as those of the...
According to the Washington Post, Beijing has become a model for many in Indonesia for its ability to stand up to America: Amid cries of “God is Great,” the former chief of staff of the Indonesian army joined...
In the New Republic, James Mann, author of The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression, among other books, writes an article with the subtitle, “Repressive at home. Aggressive abroad. Driving Obama...
In the Washington Post, Steven Mufson and John Pomfret write that the current hype about China’s growing clout in a number of arenas says more about the U.S. national psyche than about the real situation in China: In the...
For Forbes, Joel Kotkin writes that both liberal and conservative pundits who assume the rise of China and accompanying demise of America are missing several important points, especially demographics: It is a sign of the times...
On the eve of President Obama’s arrival in Shanghai, there is much analysis of the U.S.-China relationship in the world press, with a general focus on America’s growing reliance on China. From The Guardian: The US...
President Obama leaves Thursday for his first trip to Asia since taking office. AP reports: Days after coming to power in September, Japan’s new prime minister broached forming a new East Asian trading bloc with rival...
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