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WORLD / CROSS-BORDERS By Dong Feng Published: Mar 14, 2021 07:48 PM Bloomberg published a series of opinion articles in late February, arguing that Germany, the Philippines, India and Djibouti may decide the US-China cold war. However, experts from various countries told the Global Times that these articles have been focusing on a US-China competition, analyzing the differences between the new Cold War between China and the US and the competition between major powers in the past. The West...

Culture The Remarkable Life Of George Shultz World War II veteran, distinguished economist, Secretary of Labor and the Treasury, business executive—and one of America’s greatest diplomats Min Even if his tenure as Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989 represented the entirety of George Shultz’s career in government, he would still rank among the greatest public servants of the 20th century. As President Reagan’s top diplomat, Shultz did more than any U.S. official other...

Xi is still busy developing China’s economic, hi-tech, military and regional strengths. He is not yet in a position to challenge the US in a definitive way – though that day may come. All the same, he told Biden to keep his nose out of China’s “domestic affairs”. Hence his grim warning about “misunderstandings” and “misjudgments”. Yet for Biden, enhanced bilateral cooperation that fails to change China’s behaviour in controversial areas such as commerce and Xinjiang amounts ...

Hal Brands for Bloomberg News. Read the article here. China’s drive for dominance combines timeless ambitions with 21st-century methods. Look no further than Beijing’s growing quest for spheres of influence. Like countless great powers before it, China aims to shape and control its surroundings.

It’s Joe Biden’s America, but could it be Xi Jinping’s world? It’s now Biden’s America, but whose world will it be? Expect Chinese President Xi Jinping to answer that question unequivocally on Monday with his keynote at the World Economic Forum’s first global virtual meeting. It will leave little doubt that managing relations with China will be both US President Joe Biden’s most immediate and most defining foreign policy challenge. It’s hard to imagine more dramatic timing for ...

Illustration by Adrià Fruitós. There is a story that Washington policy-makers like to tell about America’s relationship with China, a narrative of the betrayal of naive hopes that is closer to a fairy tale than a sober analysis of history. The fable goes something like this: Once upon a time, there was a hermit kingdom called China, poor, angry, and isolated. Two visionary statesmen, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, visited this unhappy land and opened it up to the world. With diplomacy ...

We must not allow COVID-19 vaccines to deepen divisions Afshin Molavi Short Url https://arab.news/j7tuz The race to produce multiple coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines seems to be approaching the finish line, but there is no time for a victory lap — the new challenge will be to vaccinate our world. Speed, it seems, is the new oil, and the pharmaceutical companies that raced for a vaccine demonstrated hyperspeed, impressive collaboration and extraordinary competence. Now that the scientis...

Covid vaccine distribution must not deepen the divide between the global ‘north’ and ‘south’ Updated Dec 17, 2020 | 16:12 IST The danger is that vaccine distribution will expose and accelerate the fault lines between the global haves and have-nots. After all, the pandemic accelerated existing fault lines of inequality worldwide. COVID vaccine&nbsp | &nbspPhoto Credit:&nbspPTI The race for multiple Covid-19 vaccines seems to be nearing the finish line, but there is...

Who will the vaccine save first? Afshin Molavi Expect the traditional faultlines between the West and the rest to be more pronounced. The race for multiple Covid-19 vaccines seems to be nearing the finish line, but there is no time for a victory lap: the new race will be to vaccinate our world. The pharmaceutical companies that raced for a vaccine demonstrated both hyper-speed, impressive collaboration and extraordinary competence. Now that the scientists have done their job, the question is �...

news Why China’s vaccine diplomacy shouldn’t be a high-profile charm offensive Maria Siow maria.siow@scmp.com © AP A container containing coronavirus vaccines made by Chinese company Sinovac Biotech waits to be loaded onto a plane bound for Indonesia as China starts supplying vaccines to Asian countries. Photo: AP If soft power rankings are any indication, Chinas efforts in adding to the global public good have achieved mixed results in recent years. Last year, it came 27...