IR & Foreign Affairs
  • International landscape roiling with changes brought by pand...
    2020-04-01 Yang Jiemian
    During the global coronavirus pandemic, analyzing the situation to generate responses in a comprehensive, dialectical and forward-looking manner is much needed.Most changes in the international strategic landscape over the centuries were th... [FULL TEXT]
  • Toward Virus Crossroads
    2020-02-10 Dan Steinbock
    Dan Steinbock,Visiting scholar of SIIS In the coming days, new confirmed cases of the virus outbreak will continue to rise. Nevertheless, there may be some possible signs of steadying in China. With the new coronavirus - the 2019 nov... [FULL TEXT]
  • How Failed Int’l Cooperation Amplifies Virus Damage
    2020-02-11 Dan Steinbock
    Dan Steinbock ,Visiting scholar of SIISAs the downgrades of the economic outlook for US, China and worldwide are about to begin, the virus outbreak may be steadying. Sadly, much of the economic, xenophobic and virus damage stems for laggi... [FULL TEXT]
  • US must fulfill its duty toward UN
    2019-11-16 Xue Lei
    UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, among other things, also has the unenviable job of resolving the funding crisis for the United Nations. So serious is the UN's funds crunch that it may not be able to pay the salaries of its staff in N... [FULL TEXT]
  • China-India bid can forge united Asia
    2019-10-08 Liu Zongyi
    Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are slated to hold the second informal meeting in the South Indian coastal town of Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu later this week after the two leaders held an informal summit... [FULL TEXT]
  • Three Promising Fronts for Sino-U.S. Policy Coordination
    2019-07-17 Chen Dongxiao
    The Sino-U.S. relationship has come to a crossroads. There is something wrong with the operating system that is animating the most important bilateral relationship in the twenty-first century. Economic and trade bonds that in the past have ... [FULL TEXT]
  • Gulf conflict could spell disaster for world
    2019-06-20 Li Weijian
    Tensions between the United States and Iran have escalated with Washington sending 1,000 troops to the Middle East and Teheran threatening to break the limits of how much enriched uranium it can stockpile according to the multilateral Iran ... [FULL TEXT]
  • China-India Relations in the Future
    2019-05-15 Liu Zongyi
    China and India are rising almost simultaneously. Their bilateral relationship is of critical significance to regional and global stability. However, the relationship remains extremely complex. China and India share extensive common interes... [FULL TEXT]
  • Gap between China and India widens under Modi
    2019-05-13 Liu Zongyi
    As the 2019 Indian general election gets underway, there has been discussion about whether India has lagged further behind China over the past five years under the Modi government.Regardless of whether it is provocative for some Western med... [FULL TEXT]
  • The Iran threat hype is designed to work in America's favor
    2019-05-14 Li Weijian
    While it is accustomed to throw the U.S. element in the discussion of the Middle Eastern geopolitics, it is easy to forget that the two places are half the earth away with each other; yet the U.S. still has a persistent influence over this ... [FULL TEXT]