29 Sep 2021
Samir Saran & Mihir Swarup Sharma
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All good things must come to an end, and so must illusions of the promised common future. A fundamental assumption long held by many in the West is that the multilateral institutions instated over the six post-War decades would serve to constrain and direct the “peaceful rise” of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). It…
22 Apr 2021
Eyck Freymann & Ralph Su
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At the all-important two sessions (lianghui) meetings last month, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials adopted a new and surprisingly unambitious Five-Year Plan, reoriented the country’s technology strategy and redoubled the crackdown on democracy in Hong Kong. All of this was documented in the English-language media. But another crucial CCP announcement flew below the media’s…
24 Sep 2020
Ashwin Ahmad
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The recently held summit between China and the European Union showed all too well the souring of the relationship. From the European side, the inability of Beijing to offer ‘reciprocity’ and ‘basic fairness’ when it came to opening up the Chinese market to European goods was just part of the reason why the one day…