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Zhou Bo: China, India and the Indian Ocean power play

If India truly believes in “Neighbourhood First”, perhaps it should consider how to live in amity with its more powerful neighbour first. Pressuring its smaller neighbours on their relations with China will only drive them closer ...
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...
Yue Xiaoyong: Work Together Towards a Peaceful and Stable Afghanistan

Speech by H.E. Special Envoy Dr. Yue Xiaoyong at the International Conference on Afghanistan
Gu Bin: Seven Myths About China’s Approach to Global Governance

China has been unprecedentedly active on the world stage since President Xi’s era. It is historically amazing, given that the West had been urging China to become a “responsible stakeholder” not long before. Now many people are cu...
Gu Bin: China, the US, and what it means to be a hegemon

China has been unprecedentedly active on the world stage since Xi’s era. It is historically amazing, given that the West had been urging China to become a “responsible stakeholder” not long before. Many people would now suspect: C...
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...
Tian Shichen: Taiwan Strait dispute: ‘international waters’ is merely a US concoction to maintain its maritime hegemony

By reclassifying all waters seaward of territorial seas as international waters, the US can claim all the high seas freedoms while avoiding any of the obligations due to coastal states. In this sense, the term serves as a panacea ...
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.
Liu Xiaoming: Past experience crucial for China-UK future

Fifty years ago, China and the United Kingdom seized the trend of history, defied various difficulties and established diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level. Over the past half-century, this relationship has forged ahead...
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 ...
Zhang Lirong: China's Agroeconomy and Rural Revitalization

This article is written by ZHANG Lirong, Secretary-General of CHINA FORUM, for Instituto para Reforma das Relações entre Estado e Empresa (IREE), introducing Chinese agriculture.

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