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ZHOU Bo: Can Joe Biden ensure America’s inevitable decline will be peaceful?

Joe Biden has been elected 46th president of the United States. Donald Trump, his predecessor, has been impeached for a second time. Both events are good news. Looking back at the four years of the Trump administration, one might...
ZHOU Bo: China and US may be rivals, but cooperation is possible and desirable

That Mr Joe Biden will soon occupy the White House instead of Mr Donald Trump will not necessarily elicit sighs of relief in Beijing. However different Mr Biden might be from Mr Trump personally, the great power competition initia...
Fu Ying And John Allen: Together, The U.S. And China Can Reduce The Risks From AI

Despite a deterioration in U.S.-China relations, both countries should seize this rare historical moment to develop common norms on AI.
Zhou Bo: Why Joe Biden will struggle to rebuild the decaying transatlantic alliance to counter China

The countries which could not wait to congratulate Joe Biden on winning the presidency are America’s allies. This should be no surprise. In the past four years, Donald Trump’s “America first” policy and his alarming words to Nato ...
FU Ying: Cooperative Competition Is Possible Between China and the U.S.

BEIJING — The domestic politics of major countries are never kept within their borders — and the future policy orientation of the United States has become a hot topic for many people in China.There is no denying the fact that Chin...
FU Ying: Safeguard our common treasure

China has clear policies on issues relating to the South China Sea and has made remarkable progress in cooperating with countries in the region. China and the members of Association of Southeast Asian Nations attach great importan...
FU Ying : Cooperation or Division?

The unexpected coronavirus outbreak in 2020 has been a major test of governance capabilities, exposing many countries’ weaknesses in domestic governance and international coordination and revealing that the global order is far fro...
FU Ying: All for one, one for all

The biggest challenge confronting the world today is to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. To prevail over the pandemic and overcome its impacts, countries need to strengthen their domestic public health management, as well as joining ...
A Look at the South China Sea

A new round of turbulence has emerged in the South China Sea since the second half of 2019. And against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, some claimants and countries outside the region have become more and more anxious, with...
Getting Through the Current Crisis

The U.S. general election of 2020 is an election that caters to ordinary people. On the surface, it’s a referendum on whether to re-elect Donald Trump as the president, but in fact the election is a choice between nationalism and ...
A Matter of Respect on Korean Peninsula

This year marks the 15th anniversary of the release of the Sept.19, 2005, Joint Statement of the Fourth Round of the Six-Party Talks on the Korea nuclear issue. Despite all the changes on and surrounding the Korean Peninsula over ...
Amid great power rivalry, the UN is a vital security shelter. It cannot fail

As the United Nations General Assembly celebrates its 75th anniversary on September 21, the question for the septuagenarian is not how to survive, but how to thrive. The UN’s importance is firstly psychological. It is older than m...
China-US Relationship in Times of COVID-19: Is Benign Competition Possible?

In February 2020, some Chinese scholars and I participated in the 56th Munich Security Conference in Germany. The theme of the conference was "Westlessness," which, from a European perspective, dwelt on whether "the West" was decl...
The risk of China-US military conflict is worryingly high

The relationship between China and the US is in freefall. That is dangerous. US defense secretary Mark Esper has said he wants to visit China this year, which shows the Pentagon is worried. That Wei Fenghe, China’s defense ministe...
A safe distance is needed for the dragon and elephant to coexist

Editor's note: Zhou Bo is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Security and Strategy, Tsinghua University, and a China Forum expert. The article was first published by The Strait Times on August 5, 2020. The article doe...
Zhou Bo: Sino-India ties and lessons from the Galwan Valley brawl

On June 1, 2018, I was invited by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the organiser of the Shangri-La Dialogue, to speak at a special session entitled Competition And Cooperation In China-India Relations, rig...
Why China must beware a less confident US, politically divided and pessimistic about its future

Has China’s foreign policy restraint ended? This is the question raised by Kurt M. Campbell and Mira Rapp-Hooper in their essay “China is done biding its time” in Foreign Affairs. They argue that since the pandemic first engulfed ...
Eurasian Integration: Adapting to New Realities

Political thinking and economic logics are both serve as important driving forces for Eurasian integration, but sometimes they contradict each other, which restricts the Eurasian integration from going forward quickly. This is als...
There is a need for positive thinking

China-US relations have been through a spiral downward cycle, witnessing the most difficult time since the establishment of their diplomatic relations more than four decades ago. The trend of the political motivation in the United...
FU Ying: After the Pandemic, Then What?

Observing the policy evolution of the United States, one must not ignore the opposing dynamics that have characterized Chinese and U.S. national policy orientations since the Cold War. Grasping peaceful development as the theme o...

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