It is vital that the region adopts an approach of strategic hedging and remains neutral for diplomacy and negotiation to become sustainable.
Some evidence is emerging that the Belt and Road Initiative more reflects the kind of one-way, or exploitative, trade relationships that it ostensibly set out to differentiate itself from.
Despite recent high-level meetings between Chinese and American officials, the two nations continue to accuse each other on a variety of issues.
As a nation with a historical consciousness of humiliation and a desire for rejuvenation, China can bring a unique perspective to the table.
The new balance is, and will remain, about managing confrontations and reducing misperceptions that could lead things out of control.
China, as a non-Western great power, is bringing its own cultural values and practices into an increasingly multicultural international order.
China uses joint exercises to reassure Russia, while at the same time intimidating its regional opponents in times of rising tensions over Taiwan.
The international community must promote peaceful dispute resolution and work toward preserving the stability of the global maritime security order.
Members of the E-International Relations podcast team speak about what they have been reading recently as part of ‘The Laid-Back Book Club’.
Nuances among the narratives presented on China are found in the analysis of pieces published by American and Latin American scholars and elites in Americas Quarterly.
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