China global leadership

Ironically, Trump’s approach to international relations is playing the game of his proclaimed main enemy: Xi Jinping’s China.

Amid a near-complete reversal in U.S. foreign policy, more nations may look to China to fill the role that the United States once played – an unthinkable prospect just a few months ago. 

For Beijing, Trump 2.0 suggests that the shift from a “U.S.-centered” to a “U.N.-centered” world is well underway.

Taiwan’s approach to cybersecurity governance is not only a lesson in resisting cyber threats from China but also an important bulwark against Beijing’s attempts to set repressive digital norms.

Insights from Romina Bandura.

Xi Jinping and his government have been remarkably vague regarding the international agenda China publicly promotes.

By examining how the U.S. and China perceive the nature of their contest and plot their paths to success, we can better anticipate the trajectory of this competition.

Insights from Dawn Murphy.

Does China want to change the status quo in the Asia-Pacific? Is China using Europe as a bargaining chip with the United States? How did “wolf warrior” diplomacy come about?

From the economy to diplomacy and internal politics, Xi appears to have simply kicked policy problems down the road.

Under Xi, China has embraced green diplomacy as part of its global ambitions.

Insights from Fei-Ling Wang.

Insights from Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung.

To truly understand the impact of China’s global initiatives, we need to stop thinking in a status quo-revisionist binary.

The war in Ukraine has put the U.S. and China on opposite sides of the conflict. The larger issue here, however, is about who will control the world order of the future.

The 11 members of the expanded group have so little in common that it’s tough to decode what their purpose will be.

If Beijing’s current foreign policy is anything to go by, the most likely outcome of its push to remake global governance is disorder, not a new Chinese world order.

Analysis of 30 years of U.N. data reveals that China and Russia have been far more successful in winning support for their positions from the global community.

Everything that is being proposed at the BRICS summit is already being done – often more effectively – at the bilateral level by China.

China has been keen to expand BRICS as a direct counter to the U.S.-led G-7, but other members were more hesitant.

China is transitioning from one major global project to another. How are they different?

With the component of realist international competition removed, the G-7 and China actually share many hopes and desires for global development.

This isn’t just a feud between two great powers; it’s a competition for a new world order in cyberspace.

The GCI is an attempt to win global buy-in for China's principle of non-interference by conflating modern-day regimes with traditional culture.