The Belt, the Road, and Latin America
China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) project was late in coming to Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). First...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
The Belt, the Road, and Latin America
A nation must think before it acts.
China
China: Time of Reckoning
China has long occupied a unique place in America’s relations with the world. In the 18th and early 19th...
Why China’s Belt and Road is Off Track
Xinjiang, in northwest China, seems in many ways like the far edge of the modern world. Spanning a vast...
China’s Black Sea Ambitions
The People’s Republic of China is actively engaging Black Sea littoral states through various initiatives to open new markets...
A Year in Taiwan’s Sovereignty
Throughout 2018, Taiwan and its sovereignty faced a barrage of threats from the People’s Republic of China in the...
More Politics than Substance: Three Years of Russian and Chinese Economic Cooperation in Central Asia
Over three years ago, in May 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that they...
On the Mend?: Sino-Japanese Relations
At first glance, one could imagine that China and Japan are getting ready to thaw the decade-long chill in...
Organization of Rivals: Limits of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
In late August 2018, China, Russia, and the six other countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) wrapped up...
Showing the Dragon’s Teeth: China’s Warnings over the South China Sea
On August 31, the Royal Navy’s amphibious assault ship Albion exercised its freedom of navigation rights by sailing past...
U.S.-China Competition and the Taiwan Tripwire
Under the Trump administration, U.S.-China relations have moved rapidly and dramatically from a prevailing mood of engagement to one...