China’s pressure campaign aims to bend Taiwan toward eventual annexation. But sustained coercion could weaken the liberal nature of its democracy even without a loss of sovereignty. The danger is that countering coercion can gradually …
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A rise in anti-Japanese sentiment among the Chinese public in the past month is not unprecedented, but rather an extension of a steady rise since 2023. The surge, which followed Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remark …
A major sore point in India’s relations with its Western partners is its continuing empathetic relations with Russia, especially since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022. So there was considerable attention on Russian …
News last week that China had published a white paper on arms control seemed promising, because it raised hopes that Beijing would provide some rationale or plan for its nuclear expansion of the past few …
The five-year economic plan that the Chinese government issued in late October made clear that industrial investment and indigenous innovation will remain the centrepiece of the country’s strategic agenda. That’s a problem for China, because …