Aishwarya Proma Over the past few months, a substantial exchange of discussions and negotiations has taken place between the United States and China about the issue of acquiring chip manufacturing and chip processing technology. Numerous instances of exchanges have resulted in the obstruction of access to rare earth …
Read More »Can America Counter the Next China Shock?
Christopher Vassall0 The experience of labor offshoring bears lessons for today’s capital offshoring. American shareholders have accumulated massive exposure to China’s market, leaving them vulnerable to the anti-market features of China’s politics. In the early 2000s, a “China Shock” roiled America’s manufacturing economy as companies offshored labor. The United …
Read More »How China Sees the World
Qin Qan As residents of the same world, we should and can listen to each other, narrow our gap in perceptions of the world, and explore a way to get along based on mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party …
Read More »Israel-Lebanon Border Dispute: Warmer But Not Hot
Alexander Langlois The fortunate reality is that neither actor desires a major escalation on their disputed border. In a turbulent year for both Israel and Lebanon, one would assume the two countries would work to avoid additional crises at all costs. Rather, Tel Aviv and Beirut are opting …
Read More »Why America Is Losing the Tech War with China
David Goldman It is simply too late to try to suppress China. The United States must either spend seriously on research and development, along with industrial policy, or it will lose the race for twenty-first-century technological supremacy. Western media, for the most part, has ignored a remarkable array …
Read More »Biden Should Not Extend Security Guarantees to Saudi Arabia
Gregg Priddy It simply does not make sense for the United States to make huge concessions to Saudi Arabia in the form of a formal security guarantee in response to concerns about China or the desire for Saudi-Israeli normalization. While President Joe Biden termed the idea of Saudi-Israel …
Read More »An aggravating economy; a contested political reform!
Eng. Saleem Al Batayneh In Webster’s Dictionary of Political Terms, political reform is defined as a process of modifying the form of governance within a state and its existing political framework, aiming to shift from a culture of submission to one of participation. The challenge of modernizing Jordan’s …
Read More »Henry Kissinger and the symbolism of Diaoyutai in China
The symbolism of the meetings between Kissinger, the national security advisor to former President Richard Nixon at the time, and the Chinese Prime Minister at the time Zhou Enlai, stemmed from the many stages of hostility between the two parties, as well as paving the way for a …
Read More »Storm clouds gathering in the Black Sea
Kiev followed up with an official letter to the UN’s International Maritime Organization spelling out a new maritime corridor passing through Romania’s territorial waters and exclusive maritime economic zone in the north-western part of the Black Sea, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar, Indian Ambassador and prominent international observer. Evidently, Kiev acted …
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