While New Delhi and Beijing will remain invested in BRICS, their mutual antipathy will ensure that the gulf between the bloc’s soaring rhetoric and concrete action will remain vast.
The return of the Chagos chain to Mauritius is nothing other than strategic goals taking precedence, with decolonisation serving as window dressing.
Should Chinese and Brazilian leaders find ways to work together for a shared future, a more dynamic and multidimensional partnership seems likely.
Sciutto provides a thought-provoking examination of the interactions between great powers, despite a misleading title and omission of the role of smaller regional powers.
Forced labor ultimately serves China’s goal of minimizing the financial costs of genocide while accelerating the eradication of the Uyghur people.
The highest grossing video game franchise of all time will soon launch its latest installment, but we should be paying more attention to a 2012 predecessor.
China has been systematically poaching Taiwan’s diplomatic allies over the last several years as part of a systematic campaign.
Whether the Community of Shared Future of Mankind will materialize as the vision of world order depends on Beijing’s consistency with its rhetoric.
As the Chinese-US relations are tense, the EU’s prudence seems to be a more appropriate and compromising strategy for dealing with China.
Colin Flint talks about China’s rise, influence in the South China Sea and the Belt and Road initiative, as well as the importance of ports and seapower in geopolitics.
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