On the evening of June 15, Chinese and Indian soldiers clashed unexpectedly in the Galwan Valley, high in the Karakoram mountains, causing casualties on both sides. The Indian side, which initiated the incident, suffered a lot of casualties...
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Prof. Dr. Chen
Dongxiao is the President of Shanghai Institutes for International Studies
(SIIS), a government affiliated top think-tank of China. He got his Ph.D. from
Fudan University. His major areas of specialization are China’s foreign...
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MEDICAL supplies from Guangzhou, donated by the People’s
Republic of China to help South Africa fight the Covid-19 epidemic, were offloaded at OR
Tambo International Airport. After the so-called Guangzhou racist incident,
Africa-China rel...
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In
the ongoing battle against the global pandemic, belated responses will result
in huge human costs and massive economic damage. In Europe, losses are climaxing
in the 2nd quarter of 2020. Before
advanced economies – including those in Eur...
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A week ago, I was returning to Slovenia from London via Germany and Italy. The whole travel was normal – with, perhaps, fewer passengers at airports than usual.However, at our final stop at the airport of Trieste (Trst), on the Italian side...
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The last months have seen various discussions in American academia about the impact the COVID-19 crisis could have on the future international order. Those discussions include an influential article by Henry Kissinger in the Wall Street Jou...
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China-U.S. relations are, and will continue to be, a defining feature of the future international order, and stable evolution of that relationship is relevant not only to the future welfare of the two nations but also to the world. Variable...
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Containing the COVID-19 epidemic has topped the agenda of the international community as the virus has developed into a global pandemic where no-one is immune. Facing this common challenge, therefore, countries should deal with it through j...
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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...
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Pakistani Abdul Zahir Hamad (2nd L) and his wife Mauritian Hosany Sumayyah (L) discuss with a colleague about a passenger with abnormal body temperature at a novel coronavirus prevention-and-control checkpoint of an expressway exit in Wenzh...
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