Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Beijing believes its contradictory approach best protects its interests.
Media and published views are only a proxy for what China’s leaders think. As Xi Jinping likes to recall, the press has a duty to educate the people along lines that the CCP sets.
China appears to be trying to balance between strategic partnership on one hand and its claim that it adheres to important principles of non-interference, territorial integrity, and state sovereignty.
So, this is not the first time China has thrown a lifeline to Sri Lanka. This has been part of China's outreach to most countries in South Asia. It is a greater strategic foothold in the region
To investigate China’s stance on the conflict and to better understand the interests that Beijing is trying to protect and advance in the Ukraine crisis, Bonnie Glaser will speak with Dr. Evan Feigenbaum, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Few EU or U.S. policymakers pause to ask what Beijing might want from Brussels or Washington to become more cooperative.
Yoon Suk-yeol’s unrelenting pragmatism can guide him through key foreign policy and national security challenges.
There are several explanations. The overarching one that’s not covered enough in the media is their obsession with Ukraine and their basic misjudgment of its importance for Russian foreign policy.
Washington and Tokyo have committed to make technology collaboration a centerpiece of U.S.-Japan relations. But the critical step will be to enhance private sector–led innovation.
Evan Feigenbaum offers a compelling analysis of the difficult position that Beijing now finds itself in after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine — unable to reconcile conflicting commitments to China’s strategic partnership with Russia, its foreign policy principles, and its desire to avoid being collateral damage from American and European sanctions.