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Zuo Xiying, one of China’s top experts on international security, examines evolving U.S. deterrence strategies in light of rising strategic competition with China. He argues that the gap in conventional deterrence capabilities between China and the U.S. is rapidly narrowing owing to China’s technological and military advances and what he sees as the decline of the U.S. industrial base. As a “stress reaction” to this perceived decline, Zuo argues U.S. policymakers have begun to discuss declining American conventional deterrence capabilities vis-a-vis China more frequently. Zuo warns that Beijing should approach shifts in relative capabilities cautiously, and recognize that the U.S. is expanding its “toolbox” of mechanisms that can be leveraged flexibly to deter China, particularly in the case of heightened tensions in the Taiwan Strait.
A prominent Russia scholar at Fudan University argues that the Russia-Ukraine war has accelerated disruptions to global supply chains, reevaluation of global trade and investment rules, and efforts to reform and reshape security architecture both globally and regionally. However, he sees these trends as best characterized as a “small divergence” in the international order, rather than a move toward a Cold War-style confrontation between two hostile camps. Notably, Feng makes a point to distance China from Russia’s war. He argues that given meaningful differences in U.S. assessments of Russia and China, Beijing can play an important role in reducing the risk of what he terms global “re-campification” (再阵营化).
How is Beijing assessing the effectiveness of U.S. deterrence approaches vis-a-vis Taiwan? Writing in one of China’s leading IR journals, Renmin University’s Zuo Xiying argues that while the U.S. “failed to deter Russia from taking military action,” its actions since the invasion to support Ukraine and punish Moscow have “produced a powerful deterrent effect against China with regard to the Taiwan issue.”
The Deputy Director of Xiamen University’s Taiwan Research Center argues that while Beijing’s preference remains to “reunify” peacefully, Taiwan “separatists” and the United States are “touching the red line drawn by the mainland.”
This excerpt from a lengthy news report, written in April 2022, examines the global energy market amid the Russia-Ukraine war and takeaways for China. The author suggests that “although the Russia-Ukraine conflict is far from Asia, the global energy market is unitary in nature.” He argues that high oil prices are a “further warning of the importance of diversifying energy supplies for energy security.”
The chief economist at a state-owned energy investment firm argues that in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China must diversify its energy sources, increase its energy independence, and promote the use of the RMB for pricing and settling international energy transactions.
The former Bank of China vice president outlines the role SWIFT plays within the international banking system and explains the effects the Russian economy will experience following the country’s removal from the system.
An assessment of the primary causes of the Ukraine crisis and possible long-term impacts of the conflict on the international order.
This lengthy news analysis appearing in a state-owned newspaper was written two days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It outlines China’s basic framing of the Ukraine crisis, suggesting that the U.S. and NATO are “us[ing] Ukraine to ‘curb’ Russia and ‘weaken’ Russia.”
The war in Ukraine is a manifestation of the deep divergence in politics and values between Russia and the West, argues an expert in former Soviet states from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.