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Chinese Perspectives on the EU–China Trade Conflict
Trade tensions between the EU and China escalated in March, when the Commission proposed its Industrial Accelerator Act, and have been simmering since then, but October is decisive.
The second ministerial round of the EU–China Trade and In...
Interdependence and Its Limits | Digest: September 2026
Today’s digest is published in collaboration with Bill Bishop’s one-and-only Sinocism.
Much of the commentary in September revolved around the strength and limitations of economic interdependence as a source of political power. Agai...
Gung-Ho Diplomacy: Chinese Commentary on the Trump-Xi Summit
In terms of deliverables, the Trump-Xi Summit disappointed already-low expectations. The most important announcement was a two-month extension, to January, of the Busan Framework established last October — far shorter than the one- or two-y...
China’s Strategy for Promoting Non-Alignment in Southeast Asia | Xue Song
“This passing exercise east of Taiwan demonstrates that a major ASEAN country … can conduct military training with China while maintaining close defence cooperation with the United States.”
Today's introduction is from Dr Gatra Priyandita,...
What China Wants from the Washington Summit
Chinese scholars on strategic stability, trade, AI safety and Taiwan ahead of Xi’s meeting with Trump
Xi Jinping is scheduled to make a state visit to the US, meeting Trump on September 24. Ahead of the trip, He Lifeng is also expected to...
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Exec. Director of Sinification. Associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). Former analyst at MERICS.
Lead Analyst at Sinification. Former analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS). Fellow at the China Global South Project.
Research Analyst at Sinification; MA Peking University late-Qing history; BA Cambridge Chinese studies
Abraham Miller Chair in Chinese Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [email protected]
I’m an historian with a bit of policy experience. I teach at UBC in Vancouver. My work focuses on the history and life if the Chinese Communist Party, Chinese intellectuals, propaganda, ideology, oh, and one can never escape Mao.
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