Ali Wyne, senior analyst at the Eurasia Group's global macro geopolitics practice, calls on American policymakers to craft a better strategy that is not determined by the behavior of our notional competitors, especially China.
China’s trade with Russia is roaring back as companies find ‘seams’ in the sanctions regime.
The official document, the third of its kind ever released by Beijing, urges Taiwan to adopt the “one country, two systems” principle used in Hong Kong and Macau.
China’s globe-trotting foreign minister is on the road, as he always is. His last stop was Bangladesh, where he thanked the country for its support of Beijing’s position on Taiwan.
Everybody seems to be talking about war as China ramps up its rhetoric and its live-fire military exercises in the seas and skies around Taiwan. But not so much the Taiwanese. I asked journalist and president of the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents Club William Yang: What is the rest of the world getting wrong?
Beijing has announced it will carry out more drills in the waters surrounding Taiwan a day after they were scheduled to end, as tensions rise in the Taiwan Strait.
Taiwan experts and officials have refrained from calling the recent tensions a "crisis." “There's apparently an overreaction by the foreign media and also by policy experts in the U.S.," one Taipei-based political scientist said. "In Taiwan, people just don't see it as a very severe crisis right now.”
What to do about China? That’s a question heard almost daily by Jason Young, who heads up New Zealand’s most important center of China studies as the island nation balances between the enormous economic benefits and the real potential for everything to go wrong in its relationship with the Asian giant.
As tensions in the Taiwan Strait and between the U.S. and China ratchet up, the language used by Chinese officials is becoming more colorful and bellicose.