Digital currency combines monetary, technological and economic factors with politics. China’s active participation in this realm indicates its importance and also marks it as the next competitive arena.
Although interesting similarities and differences can be enumerated between China and Argentina foreign policy decision-making processes present great complexity.
Journalist Jim Sciutto’s book proves to be an informative source on the covert activities orchestrated by Moscow and Beijing and the impact on the US and its allies.
Developing countries have an opportunity to provide the rest of the world with best practices of solidarity and generosity. A younger and more digitally connected population is among the positive signs of this.
China, through the use of soft power, is working to undermine and replace the liberal order with rules conforming to its interests, creating a China-centric world.
If we fail to examine scenarios of pandemics worse than Covid-19, we will suffer similar results and western democracies may find it hard to recover from such events.
The preponderance of China and the broader Global South have already begun transforming IR theory, whilst themselves undergoing occasional clashes.
Despite the currents of debate over “broadening” the theoretical horizons of IR beyond the West, several critical questions and issues still remain unclear or unexplored.
The expansion hypothesis is verified by the expansion of the Chinese surveillance technology. This threatens liberal democracy through the accumulation of illiberal acts.
If Thailand manages to advance a mutually agreed vision for regional connectivity, it can potentially benefit both from competition and collaboration.
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