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2022-03-29 |

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.

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2022-03-25 |

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 and short term. Diplomacy is never as simple as a one-choice question, and moral judgments often impede the search for practical diplomatic solutions.

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2022-03-18 |

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 choice is avoiding a bad choice.

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2022-03-10 |

Sun Chenghao: Transatlantic Coordination on China?

Since Joe Biden became the U.S. president, transatlantic relations have witnessed a rapid revitalization. This is closely related to the Biden administration’s return to an idealistic foreign policy and U.S. efforts to unite Europe to engage in intense competition with China.

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2022-03-07 |

SUN Chenghao: Why Indo-Pacific Strategy Will Fail

The Biden administration recently released its Indo-Pacific Strategy Report, which refers to the growing challenges facing the region from China. It makes groundless accusations that China is combining its economic, diplomatic, military and technological might as it pursues a sphere of influence in the Indo-Pacific and seeks to become the world’s most influential power.

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2022-02-28 |

Huang Renwei: The general direction of Sino-US relations initiated by the Shanghai Communique cannot be changed.

This article is Prof. Huang Renwei's speech at the Sino-US seminar to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Shanghai Communique.

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2022-02-23 |

SUN Chenghao: China, U.S. should learn from history 50 years after Nixon's visit

February 21 marks the 50th anniversary of former U.S. President Richard Nixon's visit to China. Since Nixon's visit half a century ago that led to a handshake across the vast Pacific Ocean, the two countries have gradually come together based on common strategic needs, regardless of differences in ideology, and opened a new chapter of bilateral relations in the history.

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2022-02-22 |

Fu Ying: Addition, not subtraction

Half a century ago, when the US president Richard Nixon visited China, the leaders of China and the United States decided to reach out to each other for "a handshake across the Pacific Ocean".They issued the Shanghai Communique, breaking the isolation from each other and starting the normalization of relations between China and the US.

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2022-02-22 |

Zhou Bo: 50 Years After Nixon’s Historic Trip, US-China Relations Can Be Brought Back From The Brink

Whatever one might think about the future of the China-US relationship, Nixon’s visit half a century ago offers a useful reminder: if enemies could become friends then, competitors are not bound to be come enemies today. Not only Nixon could go to China.

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2022-02-22 |

World Insights: Munich Security Conference focuses on "unlearning helplessness"

MUNICH, Germany, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Against such backdrops as the deepening crisis over Ukraine and the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing 58th edition of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), held from Friday to Sunday, focuses on the theme of "unlearning helplessness."

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2022-02-09 |

Zhou Bo: SCO cannot tackle terrorism in Eurasia while Afghanistan remains outside the bloc

The swift and decisive response by countries of the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to the riots in Kazakhstan raises a question for its peer in the region, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO): can it become equally effective in a similar situation?

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2022-01-24 |

Sun Chenghao: Stability Expected. Here’s Why.

After Joe Biden took office, the United States basically stuck with the China policy it inherited from Donald Trump — strategic competition — but some adjustments have been made as to ways and means.

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