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To understand the People’s Liberation Army’s fortnight of political and military pyrotechnics over Taiwan, you have to start with the domestic political conditions in Beijing.

US-China ties have reached a new boiling point over the last few weeks. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Aug 11, 2022 // Is China seeking to displace the U.S. as the world’s leading power by the centenary of communist rule in 2049? What happens over the next three decades will depend on many unknowns and how America rises to the challenge, writes Harvard’s Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Americas China challenge

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Many users mocked the government for not taking military action to stop Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan trip, saying it hadn’t lived up to its tough rhetoric.

At this year’s Aspen Security Forum (which I cochair) in July, Chinese Ambassador to the US Qin Gang (秦剛) appealed for better understanding of his country. However, there was considerable debate among the assembled experts about China’s objectives. Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) has announced his nation’s intention to outpace the US in critical technologies such as artificial intelligence and synthetic biology by 2030, and many analysts predict that China’s GDP — measured...

Decoupling was thought to be the path to stabilising superpower competition. But greater self-sufficiency may make the US and China think they can survive a military conflict and therefore more likely to start one.

Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd discusses his new book "The Avoidable War."

President Biden and China's President Xi Jinping had a three-hour phone call on Thursday.