Good morning. It is a great honor for me to be invited to provide perspectives and analysis to the special committee on Canada-China relations. I was asked to provide views on China’s global role and approach to the international system and recommendat …
While the world’s attention has been focused on the denuclearization talks with North Korea, the country’s domestic social changes have evaded public scrutiny. The burgeoning market economy, the internal social control and the securitization of society …
Published November 27, 2019 / Held December 10, 2019
While President Trump’s team may still believe that a trade deal is well within reach in the near future, that perception is not at all shared by the Chinese government. The U.S. and China have entered a war of attrition. The U.S. policy makers need to prepare for a long game in the trade tension and the eventual de-coupling of the two economies, regardless of whether that was the original intention.
China’s One Belt One Road strategy (OBOR, commonly known as the Belt and Road Initiative) is a global undertaking, encompassing over 1,700 projects in 65 countries. Forty-four African countries—along with the African Union—have signed OBOR ag …
Since Myanmar’s current peace process began eight years ago, ethnic reconciliation has become a benchmark in evaluating progress of the Myanmar nation and state, alongside civil-military relations and economic development. China is undeniably a ma …
The intensifying theme of great power competition between the U.S. and China has major implications for the Korean Peninsula, its future unification and the U.S. alliance system in Northeast Asia. Most directly, China could be even more reluctant to ch …
Published September 20, 2019 / Held October 2, 2019
The 2019 protests in Hong Kong have riveted the world, as their focus has expanded from an extradition bill to alleged police misconduct, Hong Kong’s electoral system, and the broader relationship between Hong Kong and the government in Beijing. Unders …
Published September 16, 2019 / Held September 25, 2019
After becoming the leader of China in late 2012 Xi Jinping rapidly launched his signature foreign-policy campaign—the Belt and Road Initiative—to project China’s economic and geopolitical influence. Whether the BRI has improved China’s external environ …
WITH FIGHTING in Rakhine State since January and escalating bloodshed in northern Shan State, Myanmar is enduring a level of conflict unprecedented in recent years. This state of affairs has further diminished the already gloomy prospect for any progre …
The strategic competition between India and China in South Asia, especially in the Indian Ocean due to the Chinese “string of pearls” strategy, has been a key element underlining the narrative of bilateral relations in recent years. There are debates i …
The Hanoi summit between President Trump and North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un had been expected to deliver concrete results on the nuclear negotiations and/or US-North Korea bilateral relations. Widely speculated outcomes had included partial de …
After many years of speculation about a visit to the DPRK by Chinese President Xi Jinping, the suspense finally came to an end last week with the Chinese leader’s two-day state visit to Pyongyang. The timing is curious. The trip happened at the peak of …
By Qiongyi Chen Without much notification to its people, the Chinese government has carried out a massive project of installing 176 million cameras across the country in the past decade. According to industry research firm IHS, this number will tr …
China’s doves urge Beijing to find common ground with Washington Amid mounting tensions with Washington, the doves among China’s communist elite are growing increasingly vocal in their urging for Beijing to take a more cautious approach. The trade disp …
The Hanoi summit was not the breakthrough in the peace process that South Korea had hoped to see. The talks with North Korea have stalled in an environment of increasing tension between the U.S. and China, placing South Korea in a challenging position …
CHINA’S SCIENTISTS ARE THE NEW KIDS ON THE ARCTIC BLOCK FOR NEARLY A century, the Arctic has been a scientific playground for American, Canadian, and European researchers studying everything from magnetic fields to krill popula …
Since being applied to U.S.-Soviet-China trilateral relations after the Sino-American rapprochement in the early 1970s, the notion/theory of “strategic triangles” has been widely used to examine many trilateral relations. The model of “U.S.-China plus …
Chinese President Xi Jinping tries to stem rising chorus of doubts over Belt and Road Initiative President Xi Jinping sought to allay mounting scepticism and fears over his global infrastructure and trade plans on Friday, promising to prevent debt risk …
Dominance or development? What’s at the end of China’s New Silk Road? By the entrance of the main office in Cambodia’s Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone is a crimson message from the country’s prime minister, Hun Sen. Written in flowing Khmer and Man …