CDT has recently acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of this year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020,...
At The Atlantic, Anna Richardson describes the growth and implications of China’s U.N. peacekeeping deployments: With little fanfare, in the space of 20 years, China has steadily increased its commitment to UN peacekeeping...
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Recent developments in the Diaoyu Islands dispute have stoked jingoistic rhetoric in print and...
With China and the United States trading diplomatic barbs over how to address the deteriorating situation in Syria, The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos chases the reasons behind China’s position: Activists now put the death...
China’s gift of a new $200 million African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa has generated a great deal of warmth among high-ranking officials, but many in both China and Africa feel decidedly chillier about the project....
The following Cartoon by Biantailajiao has gone viral in Chinese cyberspace since Qaddafi’s death last week. 301 Hospital refers to the General Hospital of Chinese People’s Liberation Army, the most prestigious...
As former dictator’s corpse lay gawked-at in a commercial meat refrigerator in Misrata, The Associated Press reported on Moammar Gadhafi’s seamless reassessment by the Chinese media: … [State] media outlets...
Following the death of Libyan dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi after a protracted civil war, China has called for the country’s new leaders to establish an “inclusive political process,” AP reports. China claimed to...
For the Diplomat, Minxin Pei writes that the conventional wisdom that China is “the world’s quintessential practitioner of realpolitik” is flawed: The portrayal of Beijing as a non-ideological pragmatist in...
In the Sydney Morning Herald, John Garnaut has an opinion piece about China’s recent actions involving its relationship with Libya, both before and after the fall of Gaddafi: Chinese foreign policy is famously pragmatic,...
During the civil war in Libya between Colonel Qaddafi’s forces and rebel groups, China did not publicly take sides. But after the fall of Qaddafi’s government in Tripoli, official statements indicated that the...
The Chinese government has been hesitant to endorse the National Transitional Council since their defeat of Qaddafi’s regime in Libya. And now, documents uncovered by a Canadian journalist in Tripoli reveal that Chinese...
While China was initially hesitant to celebrate the apparent defeat of Gaddafi’s regime in Libya, the government is now officially recognizing the rebel forces as the future leaders of the country by attending an...
Chinese media views of events in Libya draw implicit contrasts between the Gaddafi regime and China’s own government. Beijing, it is suggested, has enabled the country to stand up against the West by strengthening the...
China abstained from the U.N. vote in March which authorized enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya, and later condemned airstrikes on Tripoli by allied forces. Now that the regime of Moammar Gaddhafi appears to be have fallen, the...
In contrast with Hillary Clinton’s recent warnings of China’s “new colonialism”, the Stimson Center argues that China’s interests in Africa “should not be seen as categorically harmful”....
Reuters reports on the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s continuing cultivation of links with the Libyan rebel National Transition Council, following a visit by a high-ranking diplomat to their Benghazi headquarters. The visit by...
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