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Why China Continues to Rise (Zhang Jun, Project-Syndicate)

In just four decades, China’s economy has achieved an unprecedented level of wealth and development, and, until recently, its upward trajectory of economic growth...

New Gas Cooperation Between Iran and Turkmenistan: Prospects and Limitations (Vali Kaleji, The Jamestown Foundation)

In a remarkable sign of tightening relations, Iran, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan signed a trilateral natural gas swap deal on the sidelines of the 15th summit...

Russia’s ASAT Test: Motivations and Implications (Pavel Luzin, The Jamestown Foundation)

Russia conducted its first kinetic satellite interception on November 15, 2021. A ground-based (presumably silo-based) missile was launched from the Plesetsk launch site and...

Widening Cracks in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Dodik’s Russian Mission (Margarita Assenova, The Jamestown Foundation)

Emboldened by Moscow and Belgrade, Milorad Dodik, the Bosnian Serbs leader in Bosnia-Herzegovina, followed on his October announcement that Republika Srpska (Serb Republic) would...

China in 2022: Xi’s Time is Only Beginning, But Where Will it Lead? (John S. Van Oudenaren, The Jamestown Foundation)

The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) official narrative holds that China is at a decisive moment. In the CCP’s telling, China’s long-sought goal of “national...

U.S.-EU Green Steel Alliance Confronts China’s Excess Steel Production (William Yuen Yee, The Jamestown Foundation)

After striking a deal to terminate the U.S.-European Union bilateral dispute over steel and aluminum tariffs, U.S. President Joseph Biden hailed the opportunity to...

Foreseeing the China-India Boundary Dispute: 2022 and Beyond (Jagannath P. Panda, The Jamestown Foundation)

Over the last year, Chinese politics have been acutely driven by President Xi Jinping’s quest to further cement his leading role in the hierarchy...

Xi Jinping and “Common Prosperity”: New Governance Paradigm or Tool to Consolidate Power? (Fatoumata Diallo, The Jamestown Foundation)

During the 6th Plenum of the 19th Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee, held in November 2021, China’s top political leadership passed a “historical resolution” that...

Allies need more diplomatic dialogue to peacefully denuclearise the Korean Peninsula (Kuyoun Chung, East Asia Forum)

Although only a few months remain before the end of Moon Jae-in’s presidential term, Seoul is relentlessly pursuing a declaration of an end to...

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