China foreign policy

Xi’s speeches make clear that he is committed to spreading China’s model of communism around the world.

From Europe and North America to the Global South, trust in Beijing has rapidly deteriorated over the past few years.

In Malaysia, the last stop on his five-nation tour of Southeast Asia, Wang Yi said that "no one can separate" China and the nations of Southeast Asia.

At this year's Dialogue, Chinese officials were strident and defensive – but it's better to have Beijing in than out.

Beijing's wooing of Southeast Asia's largest nation counsels a renewed focus on maritime Southeast Asia from Tokyo.

Despite its economic centrality to the region, Beijing continues to elicit significant levels of mistrust.

The Chinese public is overwhelmingly on Russia's side amid the invasion of Ukraine, but there is little appetite for China to play an active role.

Chinese academics are ushering in a new school of thought concerning China’s role in international affairs – one that is particularly attractive to the developing world.

Xi Jinping may need to rethink his grand design for a new world order.

China’s attitude toward the Ukraine war stems from functional calculations, diplomatic and military bonds with Kyiv, strategic considerations, and normative reflection.

The reputational cost – both on the international stage and with the Chinese people – would be great if Beijing threw its support behind Russian aggression.