Dr Alessandro Arduino is the principal research fellow at the Middle East Institute (MEI), National University of Singapore. This article is his view on US's withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Since the implementation of its “reform and opening up”, China has overseen a spectacular rise in the living standards of its citizens.

Like any game, there will be winners and losers. In globalisation, while the winners are the majority, especially in emerging-market economies, the few losers are mostly those in the developed world whose jobs have gone because they cannot compete. That doesn’t mean that these people do not need help; they do.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

On April 19, 2021, the sub-forum "Shared Aspirations of Asia: Diversity and Commonality" co-hosted by Boao Forum for Asia and Center for International Security and Strategic at Tsinghua University (CISS), was successfully held during the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2021.

July 9, 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of Kissinger's visit to China and the ‘ice breaking’ that followed between China and the United States. Mrs. Han Hua, Member of China Forum Executive Committee, made an exclusive interview with Chinese Vice Foreign Minister LE Yucheng. LE stated China's positions, and expressed his views on the current state of China-US relations, as well as China's expectations for its future direction.

Last month, United States President Joe Biden asked his G7 counterparts to work on a world-wide infrastructure plan to rival China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It marked the debut of Biden’s campaign for international cooperation in high quality infrastructure, which may be viewed as a scale-up version in a post-COVID 19 world to the Blue Dot Network of the Trump era. Nevertheless, Biden’s call produced little concrete results.

Much has been said about the so-called Wolf Warrior diplomacy. Rhetoric aside, the real issue isChinese victimhood over the “century of humiliation” that started with the 1840 opium war.

Shanghai—This week, the Chinese Communist Party, the CCP, celebrates its centennial. Founded in 1921 by 12 men in a modest Shanghai townhouse, the party led a revolution that eventually established the People’s Republic in 1949. The rest is history. Is the party getting old at 100? Or is it still young? The future of China, and indeed that of the world, hinges on the answer to this question.

Tian Shichen, a China Forum Expert, Founder and President of Global Governance Institution shared his perspectives with China Forum on the China Coast Guard (CCG) Law and its implication for international security and international law. Tian emphasized that the CCG Law would turn chaos into order and promote long term peace and stability.