The United States and China must jointly address the North Korea challenge, based on the consensus that North Korea is a common security threat and peace is possible.
As China inches closer to becoming a global power, the rest of the world, especially critical voices within the US, may need to ask themselves: are we ready?
For NSG talks to succeed, China must recognise India’s desire to play a bigger global role and India should resist aligning itself with a US-Japan led Pacific alliance.
President Xi’s active global diplomacy is not so much about what China wants and does, but how the international community responds to the new China
Reactions to US operations in the South China Sea demonstrate that China and the United States seem to have established a working protocol for issues they disagree on
The already strained relationship between Japan and China has recently faced more challenges and they may benefit from US involvement in the process of regional power transition.
China’s mild response to the March 2010 sinking of South Korean navy warship Cheonan has frustrated many people. It has not joined the United States, Japan, and South Korea in openly condemning Pyongyang and threatening punitive measures. What explains China’s fence-sitting on this issue? What is China interest on the Korean peninsula?
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