Certainty and Uncertainty: The Boao Forum 2011
One of the initial plenary sessions at the 2011 Boao Forum for Asia focuses upon “Certainties and Uncertainties” for the global economy. A few of us who have been invited to speak on this subject have...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s “Distinctiveness” in BRICS
South Africa is distinctive in understanding its importance, stance and policy in respect of BRICS. South Africa has to agree with the majority of African countries and the African Union. South Africa...
View ArticleConflicting Views on Global Governance between China and the U.S.
Ramses Amer compares the diplomatic views and policies of the U.S. with those of China to shed light on the future their interaction. Wide differences exist in their justification for the use of force...
View ArticleFukuyama Talks About the Sorry State of American Democracy
In this premiere episode of a new Chinese Youku series produced by Guancha.cn, Shanghai scholar/entrepreneur Eric X. Li talks with political scientist Francis Fukuyama about his latest book: “Political...
View ArticleIs “Chimerica” in Decline?
The term “Chimerica,” is liberal theorizing that assumes the more economically interdependent the U.S. and China become, the more peaceful the hegemonic transition of power will be. Realists theorize...
View ArticleJoin Hands for Global Sustainable Development
China invites the nations of the world to join in its strategy of opening up featuring mutual benefit and win-win outcomes. By opening doors wider and wider to the outside world, the environment for...
View ArticleFinding New Order
Whether the world’s nations can adjust to changes and to work with instead of working against the new arrivals on the world stage is going to be a major test. China has chosen to integrate itself into...
View ArticleThe Enemy Is Us
The gravest threat to American global leadership is neither Russia nor China but continued interest group-driven Congressional abandonment of the kind of balanced strategy that won the Cold War.
View ArticleWin-Win Cooperation Sole Option for Sino-U.S. Ties
New agreements on collaboration in such areas as agriculture, grain production, civil aviation, high-speed railways, law enforcement, and military-to-military relations will further deepen...
View ArticleThe Belt & Road Initiative Offers New Model of Cooperation in Global Governance
With intraregional free trade and infrastructure funding, a greater use and circulation of currencies of countries involved will definitely follow, thus reducing or avoiding risks of depending entirely...
View ArticleChina-U.S. Competition for Strategic Partners
By re-engaging with its neighbors, especially American allies, in a formal alliance system, China would set up the function of preventative cooperation. That would help to maintain regional peace and...
View ArticleUS Should Recognize Times Are Changing
If Washington embraces cooperation instead of pursuing rivalry, all partners can harvest good results, and the US can still be a powerful partner. Why not do so?
View ArticleGrowth and Peace Top China’s National Security Agenda
The Chinese government believes that development is key in solving all problems in China: Development is the foundation for security, and security is the guarantee for development while China seeks...
View ArticleJostling of Two Types of World Orders
Competing visions, one with the UN as its spiritual center and the US counterview with itself at the heart of a unipolar world, are vying to shape the world’s future. The US remains the sole superpower...
View ArticleHistoric Changes Encourage U.S. to Learn to Share with Others
In a new world order, in the interest of the US and the whole world, the Washington has to make continued efforts to work with others to deal with the complicated world challenges, otherwise the...
View ArticleWhat U.S. Must Learn in Dealing with a Changed World
As the new year dawns, the U.S. still struggles with the effort to shape the world with itself as the center. Resisting the opportunity to build a more positive relationship with China, underpinned by...
View ArticleChina Has No Desire for World Leadership
With no real threat to America’s position in the world, Beijing and Washington need to intensify their efforts to build trust and promote understanding. The best way to achieve that is to expand...
View ArticleChina’s Middle East Opportunity
Since President Xi Jinping took office in 2013, China has been pursuing its own version of strategic rebalancing in foreign policy. China aims to re-position itself as “a state in the middle”, acting...
View ArticleTrapped in the Bipolar Trap
Many “realist” scholars make predictions about China based on what the Soviet Union did during the Cold War, which assumes the two cases are similar in more ways than are warranted. An enormous amount...
View ArticleThoughts on China-U.S. Competition
The official American statement on adhering to one-China principle and hope for peace and stability across the Taiwan Straits helped mitigate suspicions in China and further testified to the US...
View ArticleMyths about China-U.S. Relations
The two countries are not rushing toward collision but thriving on forward-moving, parallel tracks. That’s been the record for more than 30 years, despite fretful narratives of potential conflict.
View ArticleChinese Views on Global Governance Since 2008–9: Not Much New
China’s ideology of global governance shows much continuity between the pre- and post-2008–9 periods. Authoritative Chinese views all generally indicate that China’s proposed changes to the existing...
View ArticleInternational Order in a Time of Transition
Washington and Beijing have strengthened cooperation in coping with global challenges as climate change and pandemic control, and seen remarkable achievements. Such co-existence and interweaving of...
View ArticleBuilding Order in a Multipolar Era
The process of globalization has dramatically transformed state-to-state relations at regional levels: As bonds of community of interest are being formulated on greater scales, cooperation will become...
View ArticleG20’s Mission and China’s Role in Fulfilling It
China will use its presidency to focus on growth and guide international economic cooperation, and promote the new foreign policy concepts Beijing has adopted in recent years such as “win-win...
View ArticleBrexit: A Shock Wave but No Tsunami for Globalization
China’s stock market and RMB exchange rate both took a hit, but these were predictable reactions to Britain’s surprise vote to leave the EU. This brand of populism will get a boost from the success of...
View ArticleThe G20 Hangzhou Summit to Promote World Economy
Hosting the G20 Hangzhou summit will boost China’s reform and will be a new starting point for China’s growth and development. The Hangzhou summit will also set a new vision for the G20 and shape a new...
View ArticleAnalogies, American Thought, and China’s Rise
A new Penguin Special book attempts to recast China’s rise using eight “imperfect analogies.” Jared McKinney reviews the effort and reflects on the use of analogies in American political discourse,...
View ArticleChallenges in Global Governance
Amid changes in global political culture and turbulent relations between powers, it is unprecedentedly difficult to create, readjust and implement rules of global governance. Efforts must be made to...
View ArticleThe G20 and a New Era Global Governance
Chinese concepts and wisdom about “win-win cooperation”, “new type of major-country relationship”, “community of common destiny of all mankind” and “new security concept” will surely contribute to the...
View ArticleG20 Hangzhou: China and U.S. Should Jointly Promote a New Global Outlook
The world’s two largest economies must lead globalization onto a track of fast progress, to further accentuate “development”, placing more emphasis on “the politics of distribution”, rather than on...
View ArticleGlobal Growth – Still Made in China
Despite all the hand-wringing over the vaunted China slowdown, the Chinese economy remains the single largest contributor to world GDP growth. For a global economy limping along at stall speed – and...
View ArticleChina-U.S. Relations Have Entered A “New Normal”
The two governments have been rather successful in managing their differences and avoiding possible crises, and they have the determination and the ability to continue safeguarding the overall China-US...
View ArticleChina and the U.S.: Two styles of world leadership
September’s global summits saw the U.S. and China agreeing to abide by the Paris Accord on limiting emission of greenhouse gases, an influential and important step in encouraging others to follow their...
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