As the China-U.S. trade war escalates, Beijing is turning its focus to its immediate periphery to ensure both economic and national security. As the United States officially launched a tariff war ...

Editor’s Note: This is the twentieth installment of “Southern (Dis)Comfort,” a series from War on the Rocks and the Stimson Center. The series seeks to unpack the dynamics of intensifying competition ...

The transformation of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from revolutionary party under Mao Zedong into a Chinese nationalist party beginning in the early ‘90s has proven a double-edged sword for the ...

"What China seeks is not the abrupt unravelling of American power, but the space to expand its own capabilities without provoking overwhelming resistance," writes Yu Jie ...

The European Council on Foreign Relations has recently published a new policy brief, “Decade of patience: How China became a power in the Western Balkans”, based on research our visiting fellow ...

Over the past two decades, economic sanctions have emerged as a central instrument in the foreign policy toolkit of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). As the most valuable export destination for ...

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