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Xi and Biden Show Resolve, Cool Tensions in Bali Meeting

U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping met on Monday in Bali for their first in-person meeting since Biden took office. Buoyed by their recent political victories at home, the two leaders sought to...

Interview: Maria Repnikova on Chinese Soft Power

China’s soft power initiatives are often derided by Western observers as ineffective or counterproductive. Over a hundred Confucius Institutes in the U.S. and Europe have been targeted as arms of the Chinese state and forced to...

China Finding Superpower Path No Cakewalk

Richard Wike, associate director of the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project, writes for CNN on China’s growing pains as it develops towards superpower status. Many have marveled at how China successfully lifted...

Oil and the Beijing-Baghdad Trade Axis

Iraq could become the world’s next “oil superpower,” writes J. Michael Cole in The Diplomat, as China has stepped in with considerable capital to create an unlikely partnership that could define a new era of...

World Says China Will Overtake America

A new Pew Global Attitudes survey suggests that the perception of China overtaking the US continues to spread. But, as the Pew Research Center’s president notes at the Wall Street Journal, few see this as cause for...

What Has Been Done to China? – William Pfaff

William Pfaff is the author of eight books on American foreign policy, international relations, and contemporary history. He also writes a newspaper column, featured in The International Herald Tribune. From Williampfaff.com: Washington and the European capitals are all preoccupied with China’s economic growth and expanding international influence and activities, taken as evidence that in the […]

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