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Zhou Bo: How Nancy Pelosi changed the Taiwan Strait status quo in Beijing’s favour

It has given Beijing a chance to show off its military capabilities, while providing an incentive to ramp up reunification efforts and show that the Taiwan issue matters above all else
Zhou Bo: Nato’s latest expansion plan could be beginning of the end as waning West targets ‘Russia threat’

If small nations get together for self-defence, it is understandable. But if the largest alliance on earth wishes to expand, it is not about defence but enforcing its own values on others with a big stick. No alliance will last fo...
DA WEI: Security Concerns are Reasonable, Spheres of Influence are Not

The concept of “security demands” or a “security concern” may sound as if it is somehow related to spheres of influence, but security concerns are not exclusive---their most fundamental difference from spheres of influence.
Zhou Bo v.s Douglas H. Paal: US changing cross-Straits status quo fearing China’s rise

Which side is really changing the status quo of the Taiwan Straits? Senior Colonel Zhou Bo (ret), who is now serving as a senior fellow of the Centre for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University and China Forum e...
Zhou Bo: China’s red lines on Taiwan are clear, whatever the US says about its policy of strategic ambiguity

Will the United States come to defend Taiwan militarily in a war across the Taiwan Strait? China Forum Expert Zhou Bo argues that Biden’s Taiwan defence ‘gaffes’ are no laughing matter.
SUN CHENGHAO: Constructive Talks or Just Hot Air?

The crisis between Russia and Ukraine has increased Europeans’ awareness that Russia is a neighbor that they cannot ignore, and that any effective European security framework must include Russia.
SUN CHENGHAO: Compartmentalisation in China-EU Relations after the Ukraine Conflict

Since the establishment of relations in 1975, China - EU cooperation has grown extensively, expanding from trade and economics to include technology, global governance, education, and so on. That fact has been reflected accordingl...
FAN JISHE: America’s Strategy: Unite to Divide

U.S. President Joe Biden took his overdue Asia tour in late May. He visited South Korea and Japan and met with South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Japanese Emperor Naruhito, India’s Prime ...
Zhou Bo: Nato and the West must heed Russia’s warnings to avoid nuclear holocaust

Russia is repeatedly dropping escalatory hints about possibly using nuclear weapons. It might be bluffing, but what if it is not? Unlike the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that sealed the surrender of Japan in World War ...
Yu Xiang: Prospects for de-dollarization of the world monetary system and settlements in national currencies

The international monetary system refers to the institutional arrangements and practices for pricing, currencies exchange, payments adjustment, etc. The world monetary system is not eternal but will evolve with environmental chang...
Senior Colonel Zhou Bo says the war in Ukraine will accelerate the geopolitical shift from West to East

On May 9th, the by invitation column of The Economist, an internationally renowned weekly, invited Zhou Bo, a senior fellow at the Centre for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University and a China Forum expert, to ...
Sun Chenghao: US should recalibrate its China policy wisely

The China-US relationship is now standing at a critical juncture. Since Joe Biden took office, instead of correcting his predecessor’s wrong policy toward China, the US government has inherited the “great power competition” strate...
Zhou Bo: World needs ‘no first use’ pledge by US, Nato and Russia to avoid nuclear war

Nuclear weapons look awfully important again. Given Russian President Vladimir Putin’s not-so-thinly veiled warning of a nuclear attack, it is a fool’s errand to talk about nuclear disarmament now. One can imagine that North Korea...
Zhou Bo: Australia is not qualified to draw a "red line" for China

CISS senior fellow, China Forum expert Zhou Bo gave an online interview with Stan Grant, the host of China Tonight on the Australian National Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on April 25th. Zhou Bo pointed out that Morrison's statem...
FORMER AMBASSADOR FU YING: FOND MEMORIES OF MY TIME IN BRITAIN

I served as Ambassador of China to the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010. During my term, I took every opportunity to explore cities and places of interest, and made many friends, from colleagues in the then Foreign and Commonwealt...
DONG Ting: How Far Can “Moral Clarity” Go?

On March 24, for the first time, NATO, the G7 and the European Union held summits on the same day. After the meetings, the U.S. and Europe announced the establishment of a joint working group on energy security, aiming to strength...
SUN Chenghao: NATO has chosen the wrong path by targeting China

NATO recently branded China as a so-called serious challenge to the military organization by groundlessly accusing China of "its failure to condemn Russia" against the backdrop of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The NATO Secretary-Ge...
FU Ying: China-UK relations: Looking into the future

The 13th of March marked the 50th anniversary of ambassadorial diplomatic relations between China and the UK. As the tenth Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom, I wish to share some personal perspectives on the relationship.
Zhao Minghao: Sino-US Relations Amidst a Strategic Surprise

At this juncture, China and the United States must assume a special and important responsibility to promote peace and stop war. They must find a proper response, with a view toward balancing morality and interest for both the long...
Zhou Bo: Why China is refusing to choose between Russia and Ukraine

The war in Ukraine, however disruptive, won’t stop the global political and economic shifts towards Asia with China at the centre. China is now the eye in the storm. Therefore, it should be the stabiliser. The benefit of making no...

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