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The resurgence of the phoenix: Covid-19 and the fate of multilateralism

At the time of writing, the author is confined to her home as a consequence of the state of emergency…

4 years ago

Of Chinese doctors and faulty gear: how China could lose the health diplomacy battle

China to the rescue Much has been said and written about China coming to the rescue of the rest of…

4 years ago

Manufacturing the enemy. From trade war to the pandemic spat, the impossible cohabitation of China and the US

Throughout their history, the United States have built their identity as a great power around the figure of their external…

4 years ago

The Sino-Venezuelan Model: cooperation, dependence and the rise of new triangular relations with the US

Since the beginning of the new century, China has become one of the most important powers in the world, promoting…

4 years ago

China-Brazil relations under Bolsonaro: from sour to sweet, by necessity…

One year ago, the victory of Jair Bolsonaro in the presidential election opened a big question in relation to the…

4 years ago

China’s Grand Strategy. An interview with Prof. Sarwar A. Kashmeri

China’s Grand Strategy: Weaving a New Silk Road to Global Primacy is the latest book by Sarwar A. Kashmeri, Adjuct…

5 years ago

China’s Arctic strategy has the US jittery

A few weeks ago, Donald Trump made the news by expressing an interest in buying Greenland, trying to open a…

5 years ago

More of Trump’s “Art of the Deal” on display in Osaka

Osaka's G20 summit was the setting of yet another display of Trump's two-steps-backward-one-step-forward "Art of the Deal" tactics... After branding…

5 years ago

Great Power Politics: why China cannot rise peacefully

Been re-listening to a 2012 conference by Prof. John Mearsheimer, of University of Chicago, on why China cannot rise peacefully.…

5 years ago

The contradictions of Trump’s decoupling strategy

"There is an inherent and fundamental contradiction in the Trump administration’s China policy. On one hand, decoupling U.S. and Chinese…

5 years ago