
If the pandemic has highlighted one source of friction in Russia-China relations, it is inadequate governance.

Comments on a forthcoming study offer a framework for how U.S. industry wants the government to address China’s rising participation.
In today’s geopolitical environment, world leaders agree on very little. But reining in Big Tech is emerging as one of the few ideas that everyone can get behind.

Argentina is one of the few places in the world where China has made considerable investments in renewable energy. It is Argentinians themselves who successfully pushed Chinese players to help rebuild their power grid from the ground up.
It did raise serious questions about the administration's competency and credibility and whether or not it could basically deliver on commitments that it had made to its allies. Getting out of lost wars is never an easy enterprise.
For the new German government, China is now seen as "a systemic rival," as the country was unambiguously described in the German government's coalition agreement. Implicitly it means that Beijing's political and authoritarian system, its economic power and its growing military strength together pose strategic and ideological challenges to the West.
There are certainly other issues among other P5 countries, but the U.S.-China competition is so by far the most consequential great power rivalry in the international system, and it has very far-reaching geopolitical implications at and beyond the Pacific region.

The latest report signals a far more assertive approach to cyberspace.
The summit serves to symbolically show the importance of democracy at a moment when there's a lot of weakness and backsliding, and concerns about whether the democratic enterprise is going to continue in a healthy direction.

To try to find common ground, this report presents nine detailed practical measures that—implemented individually or as part of a package—would help address each state’s specific security concerns and the shared dangers of arms racing and inadvertent escalation.