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2021-08-25 |

Zhou Bo: In Afghanistan, China Is Ready to Step Into the Void

The speed and scope of the Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan have prompted introspection in the West over what went wrong, and how, after billions of dollars spent on a 20-year war effort, it could all end so ignominiously. China, though, is looking forward. It is ready to step into the void left by the hasty U.S. retreat to seize a golden opportunity.

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2021-08-23 |

Zhou Mi: Trade is important for better lives with more cooperation

In 2020, China’s trade in goods reached a historical high level of $4.17 trillion, which played an even more important role in the global industrial chain and supply chain. China will be more important in the global trade not only because of its trade volume. The enterprises in wide diversified sectors provide more possibilities for a sustainable trade, help absorb impact from the pandemic and created vast demand space for exporters in the world with vertical and horizontal trade relationship.

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2021-08-20 |

Tang Xiaoyang: Will Africa fall into a "debt trap" when engaging in infrastructure construction?

On May 7, 2021, a book reading seminar on Coevolutionary Pragmatism: Approaches and Impacts of China-Africa Economic Cooperation by Prof. TANG Xiaoyang, China Forum Expert and Associate Professor of International Relations at Tsinghua University, was held in Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University. H. E. Mr. Rahamtalla M. Osman, Permanent Representative of the African Union to China, attended the event and participated in the discussion. Ms. HAN Hua, Executive Committee Member of the China Forum, moderated he session.

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2021-08-16 |

Huang Renwei: The best way out for Biden's B3W Plan is to integrate with the BRI

In the history of global strategic competition, there have been various strategic triangles, the most famous of which is the triangle of China, America and Soviet Union during the Cold War. In an exclusive interview with China Forum, Huang Renwei, China Forum expert and Executive Director-General, Fudan Institute for Belt and Road and Global Governance, said that the world situation is becoming increasingly complex, with three big triangles —— the China-US-Russia triangle, the China-US-EU triangle, and the US-EU-Russia triangle. At the same time, the market triangles and strategic triangles overlap, which makes the situation more changeable.

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2021-08-12 |

Zhao Huasheng: China-Russian Strategic Partnership: From Continental to Marine

In the China-Russia strategic cooperative partnership, the concept of maritime strategic partnership has not yet been formed. This is not a defect for China-Russia cooperation in the past, but it seems to be a deficiency for the current and future China-Russia relations.

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2021-08-10 |

Liu Xiaoming: The Observation and Reflections on the Dilemma of Western Capitalism

People's Daily published in page 3 of the issue for April 12, 2013 the article The Observation and Reflections on the Dilemma of Western Capitalism written by Liu Xiaoming, the Chinese Ambassador to Great Britain. The full text is as follows: In September 2008, the fall of Lehman Brothers marked the beginning of a severe financial crisis in western developed countries. About five years has passed now, this crisis has not yet ended, instead, it has spread from financial and economic issues to political and social fields, thus turning the "emergency" into a "persistent ailment", and making the western world fall into omnibearing dilemmas.

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2021-08-07 |

YU Hongjun: On the right side of history

It has become an urgent task to reshape relations between major countries and reform the global governance structure

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2021-08-04 |

Tian Shichen, Leon Zhang: How the US uses its Asian allies in great-power competition with China | South China Morning Post

As US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman wrapped up her by-the-way visit to China – the subject of intense negotiation, with the two countries unable to agree on the proposed engagement until the very last minute – US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin kicked off his visit to America’s allies in Southeast Asia, namely Singapore, Vietnam and the Philippines.

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2021-07-30 |

Zhou Bo: Rules-based Maritime Order in The New Norm

Chancellor of the German Reich Otto von Bismarck famously said, “Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made”. In this regard, the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) looks like the longest sausage ever made. It was negotiated for nine years by around 140 countries, making it the longest-running international law negotiation in history. Understandably, compromises are made and ambiguities that could be flexibly interpreted still found.

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2021-07-30 |

Liu Xin: Is China profiteering from vaccine deals? That’s just an absurd American claim

Is China profiteering through a multilateral Covid-19 vaccine programme and pocketing US taxpayers’ money? That claim has been made by some American politicians and pundits, and it sounds like a juicy scandal – but is it the real story here?

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2021-07-29 |

Zhao Huasheng: Afghanistan and China’s new neighbourhood diplomacy

Afghanistan occupies an intriguing place in China’s neighbourhood diplomacy. Of all China’s boundaries with its 14 continental neighbours, that with Afghanistan is the shortest, spanning only 92.45 kilometres where the two countries meet at the Wakhan Corridor, located between the Pamirs and the Hindu Kush.

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2021-07-27 |

Zhao Huasheng: China and Afghanistan

China holds clear. coherent, but relatively low-profile positions on Afghanistan. While staying largely with the mainstream of the international community on the issue of Afghanistan, China maintains an independent policy that reflects the peculiarities of Chinese interests, concerns, and priorities in Afghanistan.

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