Center For International Security And Strategy Tsinghua University -Research

2022-06-03 |

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 accordingly by the levelling of the relations status between the two over the years. In 1998, China and the EU established a long-term, stable and constructive partnership oriented towards the 21st century, which was followed by a comprehensive partnership in 2001 and then a comprehensive strategic partnership in 2003.

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2022-05-31 |

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 Minister Narendra Modi and Australia’s newly minted Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. This tour was only one of many American moves in the region in the last couple of years to beef up the presence and visibility of the U.S., including but not limited to the Quad, AUKUS and the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework.

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2022-05-31 |

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 Minister Narendra Modi and Australia’s newly minted Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. This tour was only one of many American moves in the region in the last couple of years to beef up the presence and visibility of the U.S., including but not limited to the Quad, AUKUS and the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework.

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2022-05-30 |

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 II, if Russia opens another nuclear Pandora’s box, everyone can imagine the rest.

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2022-05-18 |

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 changes.

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2022-05-13 |

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 write a special feature on the current situation in and Ukraine, explaining China's position.

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2022-05-10 |

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” strategy and perceived China as its strategic competitor. In particular, the Biden administration has framed its “Indo-Pacific strategy” as an attempt to shape the strategic environment of China. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s upcoming speech to outline US policy towards China will unlikely offer an olive branch.

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2022-05-06 |

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 thinks it is fortunate to have developed nuclear weapons, and one can only guess which would-be nuclear state might crop up next in Asia and the Middle East.

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2022-04-23 |

Zhou Bo: Germany’s Turning Point In The Wrong Direction

On April 21, 2022, the German "Die Zeit" published on the theme "What does the world expect from Germany?" Zhou Bo, senior fellow of CISS and a China Forum expert published an essay in the commentary edition.

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2022-04-18 |

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 Commonwealth Office (FCO) and other government departments to people from all walks of life. I enjoyed my life in Britain so much that even before my return to China in January 2010, I confessed at my farewell reception at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park Hotel that I was already missing this country.

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2022-04-14 |

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 strengthen Europe’s energy security by diversifying European gas supply sources and ultimately moving away from dependence on Russian fossil fuels.

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2022-04-11 |

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-General Jens Stoltenberg said the attendance of Asia Pacific partners was important "because the crisis has global ramifications."

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