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What could cause US-China war?

ONE YEAR OF COVID-19: A year on from SAs first coronavirus case, heres how it compares to Spanish flu As SA reflects on a year of heartache and mourning, heres a look at how the coronavirus has affected the world in comparison to another virus — the 1918 Influenza, more commonly known as the Spanish flu 05 March 2021 - 04:54 By Sunday Times Heres a look at the impact Covid-19 has had, a year after it was first detected in SA. Image: 123RF/Kateryna Kon March 5 202...

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When Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi (王毅) called for a reset of bilateral relations with the US, a White House spokesperson replied that Washington saw the relationship as one of strong competition that required a position of strength. It is clear that US President Joe Biden’s administration is not simply reversing former US Donald Trump’s policies. Citing Thucydides’ attribution of the Peloponnesian War to Sparta’s fear of a rising Athens, some analysts believe the US-Ch...

Thucydides attributed the war that ripped apart the ancient Greek world to two causes: the rise of Athenian power, and the fear that this created in the established power, Sparta. To prevent a new cold or hot war, the US and China must avoid exaggerated fears and misperceptions about changing power relations.

Mar 02, 2021 // When China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, recently called for a reset of bilateral relations with the United States, a White House spokesperson replied that the U.S. saw the relationship as one of strong competition that required a position of strength. It is clear that President Joe Biden’s administration is not simply reversing Trump’s policies.

China recognises India’s growing role in South Asia but won’t give it the ‘global power’ tag China’s leadership and its strategic elites are wedded to entrenched views of American efforts to maintain dominance in the Indo-Pacific. Text Size: A+ How China perceives itself has fundamentally changed in recent times. Erstwhile Chinese President Hu Jintao laid emphasis on China’s “peaceful rise”; his successor Xi Jinping now has a bellicose tone. In Novemb...

For the Chinese, there is a structural shift underway from unipolarity to multipolarity, which the US is trying to resist.

AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein Over the last year, a lot of questions have been raised as to the genesis of the SARS-CoV2 virus.  While Chinese officials and (by extension) the (neutered by the Chinese) WHO have stated that the virus could have been a natural mutation from the original bat host to a human host.  Just a few blocks from the wet market where those officials said the virus originated was is the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a lab that specializes in viral pathogens, much like SARS-CoV...

India’s ties with China at crossroads: Jaishankar Minister of external affairs S. Jaishankar (MINT_PRINT) Share Via Read Full Story NEW DELHI: Indian foreign minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said India’s ties with China were “truly at a crossroads" given the tensions triggered by tens of thousands of troops standing eyeball to eyeball along their common border. Any expectation on the part of Beijing that relations will continue normally in the absence of “mutual respect, mutual sensit...