Center For International Security And Strategy Tsinghua University -Research

2021-06-04 |

The continuous deterioration of China-U.S. relations in recent years has gone beyond what many people might have anticipated. The American Chamber of Commerce in China’s white paper, 2021 American Business in China, mentioned that most of its members identified “tensions in China-U.S. relations” as their foremost challenge for business operations in China. Indeed, China-U.S. ties are at a crucial moment in history. Owing to the rising strategic mutual suspicion and growing prominence of structural differences, the two sides face an important choice: They can either slide into confrontation and conflict or engage in benign competition.

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2021-05-15 |

ZHOU BO : Why India’s maritime interests are closer to China than the US

India and the United States have been part of the chorus chanting about the “free and open Indo-Pacific” in recent years, but they are not birds of a feather flocking together. The decision to challenge India’s EEZ suggests that Washington does not consider millions of square kilometres of water in the Indian Ocean “free and open”.

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2021-05-10 |

FU Ying: How China Views Multilateralism

Multilateralism, as we in China understand it, is about seeking consensus through consultation and manage common affairs through cooperation for shared benefits and win-win results. In this sense, China and Europe share a common interest in upholding multilateralism.

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2021-05-01 |

ZHAO HUASHENG: The "Non-Deep" Causes of the Disintegration of the Soviet Union

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the breakup of the Soviet Union. Collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent independency of its former republics could be evaluated differently depending on the perspective, and its causes could be studied through different approaches and analytical frameworks. In this regard, much has been written about the “deep causes” of its breakdown. The author does not intend to dwell on these, rather resorting to the perspective of empirical observation to talk about its shallow causes, that is, the most direct cause of the breakup of the Soviet Union.

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2021-04-07 |

ZHOU BO: Why US-led, anti-China Quad is either meaningless or doomed to failure

The largest question hovering over the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad, grouping of the United States, Japan, Australia and India is what exactly it is.

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2021-03-30 |

Robin Niblett:

My top-line view is that it’s unlikely that the US and China can arrive soon at a common vision of future global order. I suppose the best we can hope for is an uneasy co-existence for the next 10 years or so. But you know co-existence may not be too bad.

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2021-03-29 |

Richard Sakwa: A More Diverse Model of World Order

I want to make three points, building on some of the discussion which we had last night, which I thought was fascinating. We began by talking about great powers, and we ended up discussing ideology. I just want to step back a little bit and to put things into context.

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2021-03-27 |

FU Ying: Start with the End in Mind

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the great thaw in relations between China and the United States — a turning point whose importance cannot be overstated. During his phone call with U.S. President Joe Biden in February, President Xi Jinping put it this way: “One of the most important events in international relations over the past half-century or so has been the restoration and development of China-U.S. relations.”

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2021-03-26 |

Cliff Kupchan: The New International Order: Emerging Bipolarity

The current international system is one of emerging bipolarity. That is good news, as bipolar systems tend to be peaceful. But risks in the US-China relationship and the system will be profound, focusing mostly on the economic and diplomatic arenas. We are in a period of emerging bipolarity because the United States and China will be the world’s superpowers for the foreseeable future. The global distribution of power determines the nature of any system. The two nations have emerged over the past decade

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2021-03-25 |

Michael McFaul:

The first argument is that the international order is determined by great power relations, not the other way around. Once they've been created, primarily by the United States in our current era, international institutions gain some autonomy And as David Gordon talked about in his remarks, when the United States pulls back from that system as the US did during the Trump era, the international system has been breaking down pretty quickly. China has not filled the void.

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2021-03-12 |

ZHOU BO: To avoid the folly of a US-China space race, the two competitors should learn some Soviet-era cooperation

It is interesting to see how, in one month, Mars suddenly had three visitors from Earth. First, the United Arab Emirates’ probe named Amal, or Hope, arrived on February 9; a day later, China’s Tianwen-I entered Mars’ orbit. Perseverance, Nasa’s newest rover, landed on the red planet’s surface on February 18. Why can’t nations pool their resources and knowledge on such gargantuan tasks that are extremely difficult and expensive?

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2021-02-08 |

Zhou Bo: US and China should learn from the Cold War to avoid an arms race and conflict

Last October, US and Chinese defense officials convened their first Crisis Communications Working Group to discuss crisis prevention and management. The meeting was unusual in discussing “crisis” for the first time, rather than “accidents”. It showed that the two militaries have begun to worry about things getting out of hand when bilateral ties go into free fall.

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