Although Trump`s strategy on the peninsula is still unclear, he apparently wants the US to benefit from Asia. The more chaotic the region is, the more dominant the US will become.
When Chinese air and navy force crossed the first island chain, the outlook that China will be the one to write the regional security rules has also become undoubtedly logical.
Recent South Korean opinion polls show support for Ban Ki-moon remaining persistently high. Although he still hasn`t announced his candidacy, he has spoken of his willingness to serve his country.
Trump may enhance the level of US-Taiwan exchanges and facilitate more bilateral interactions between military officials. He may also increase the arms sales to Taiwan, as long advocated by John McCain, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee. This is highly likely since Taiwan authorities have agreed to increase its defense spending to 3 percent of the GDP.
In a little over a month since Donald Trump’s stunning victory in the presidential election, the president-elect has already, as he promised during the campaign, adopted a new thinking on China, most notably with his highly controversial remarks on the United States’ “one China” policy.
China and the European Union (EU) have gone through a bittersweet year in economy in 2016, stumbling over issues, such as the anti-dumping regime and "analogue country," while continuously advancing in trade, investment and strategic cooperation.
Discussions are heating up on global governance recently. Some believe that China, as a rising power, may replace the US to lead the world especially after US President-elect Donald Trump promised to quit the Trans-Pacific Partnership and withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement. It has a good ground, but it may take a long time to be realized.
Riaz`s invitation, which came as a surprise to New Delhi, is mainly intended as a gesture. While he hinted at India`s intervention in the CPEC, he welcomed India`s participation in the project, demonstrating Pakistan does not want to exclude India.
China and Norway agreed on Monday to normalize bilateral ties, which deteriorated six years ago, with Oslo vowing not to support acts that hamper China`s core interests.
The Asia-Pacific regional order has been mainly constructed and managed by the US since World War II. Under this order, China rose. The first step of China`s reform and opening-up, advocated by then Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, was to establish diplomatic ties with the US.
A chapter "Lessons of China`s Economic Development for Latin America" has been published in Portuguese in Brazil.
The European Union should look at the whole picture of the China-EU trade ties, instead of being hesitant to fully fulfill its obligation under the Protocol on China`s Accession to the World Trade Organization.
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said last week that China and New Zealand had agreed to launch talks to upgrade their free trade agreement (FTA). This would be the first time for China to upgrade an FTA with a Western country at a higher standard and the move marks great breakthroughs.
As China becomes involved more deeply in global affairs, one basic tenant of Chinese diplomacy has become increasingly clear: regional integration is what China advocates more vigorously than ever.
The Sino-Philippine relationship has been smoothly progressing since President Rodrigo Duterte visited China. According to local media outlets, Philippine fishermen are now allowed to fish near Huangyan Island, and Chinese officials from the Ministry of Agriculture have been sent to inspect the location.
The cooperation between China and 16 Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries boomed in the past year, experts and officials said days before the opening of an annual China-CEE summit.
China won`t go backward. Why would the country return to a closed state after it has heavily benefited from integration into globalization? Given the reform and opening up China is undertaking, the country will not return to the era in which it was like a clamshell any more.
One of the world`s most challenging issues today is development. A platitude possibly, but it nevertheless embodies a number of political and diplomatic phenomena. They might seem quite strange looking in from the outside, but they are actually quite normal in nature.
BRICS nations, while achieving substantial benefits through their joint efforts, must also face up to the divergence in their interests, which has given rise to concerns that BRICS not only suffer from a lack of economic luster, but are also losing their shine in the political space.
Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the US, exchanges of people from the two countries have increasingly deepened, forming the basis of the Sino-US relations. Even after a recent furious row between the two sides, caused by the South China Sea conflicts, this basis has not changed and continues to consolidate, forming an important foundation for us to judge the trajectory of Sino-US relations.