Translation Category: Foreign Policy
Scholars at one of China’s leading state-controlled international relations think tanks provide a lengthy overview of the recently-proposed Global Security Initiative, explain its core pillars, and link the idea of global security with China’s own national security.
Writing soon after Xi Jinping launched the Global Security Initiative in April 2022, a professor of international relations at one of China’s leading universities explains the need for the new initiative, citing what he sees as recent and historical geopolitical instability under the leadership of “the West.”
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi’s speech at a June 2022 joint forum between Russian and Chinese think tanks, where he promotes the Global Development Initiative and the Global Security Initiative, and suggests that Russia and China have the opportunity to shape a new approach to global governance.
China’s renowned international affairs scholar, Yan Xuetong, delivered this speech at the 14th Annual Meeting of Chinese Community of Political Science and International Studies, where he criticized the trajectory of China’s international relations discipline towards viral content rather than in-depth study based on scientific methodology.
A researcher at the PLA’s National University of Defense Technology provides a lengthy analysis of the changing security order in the Indo-Pacific.
An international relations scholar at Tsinghua University assesses the Biden administration’s Indo-Pacific strategy, concluding that the U.S. is seeking to restrict China’s regional and global influence for the foreseeable future.
In this January 18th, 2022 speech, Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng reflects on the past year and argues that China has achieved several diplomatic successes amidst major global “crises and challenges” in 2021.
The deputy dean at the PLA’s National Defense University overviews China’s regional and global security challenges in 2021, emphasizing the increasingly important role science and technology innovation play in the military domain.
Executive director of the Institute of International Studies of Nanjing University, Zhu Feng, and research assistant Ni Guihua, react to the Biden administration’s Indo-Pacific strategy. Zhu and Feng view the policy as a partially aimed at constraining China’s development.
This analysis of Sino-EU relations by a prominent IR scholar argues that Europe is increasingly “teaming up” with the United States to “take on” China.