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2022-08-15 |

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

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2022-08-02 |

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 forever.

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2022-07-19 |

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.

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2022-06-28 |

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.

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2022-06-20 |

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.

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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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