Newsletter By 2020-07-06
China has always been committed to resolving the South China Sea issue through negotiation and shelving disputes for joint development. ANBOUND’s international relations researchers advocate a "new principle for handling U.S.-China relations," whose core message is: make no concessions on core interests, but maintain an open attitude for negotiation on other issues. The South China Sea issue is gradually evolving to an ideological issue involving sovereignty changing, away from a policy issue that can be negotiated and further improved in China's geopolitical environment. If both China and the United States regard the South China Sea issue as an extremely important core interest, then it will become the most dangerous geopolitical friction point.
>>In a buyer's world, the market space has become important competitiveness of a country. Although China is the "world's factory" and is also developing the "Chinese market", overall, China remains a major seller in the world. Some people may wonder: China also has a huge market, which imports a large number of commodities every year, such as oil (China imported 506 million tons of oil in 2019, or about USD 240 billion), iron ore (China imported 1.069 billion tons of iron ore in 2019), and semiconductor chips (China’s imports of chips in 2019 amounted to USD 304 billion), why doesn't China have the final say? In fact, whether a country is a "seller" or a "buyer" depends on the whole economy, trade, and industry. From the perspective of foreign trade, China has some buy-side goods with a little initiative in the local market, indeed it is a seller on the overall scale of "balance sheet". This is a "structural disadvantage" to China
>>【INTERVIEW】India and China, two of the world’s largest developing countries and emerging economies, are facing various challenges, from the novel coronavirus and its impact on the economy, as well as the recent tensions between the two great powers over the border disputes. To better understand the situation, ANBOUND has organized a webinar session on July 2 with
Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, a Distinguished Fellow & Head of the Nuclear and Space Policy Initiative, at Observer Research Foundation (ORF), to share her insight on these issues, hosted by Chia Siang Kim, Chief Editor at ANBOUND Research Center (Malaysia). In this webinar, Dr. Rajagopalan talked about her takes on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Indian economy, and touched the issues like nationalistic sentiment in India and what role it plays in Sino-India relations. She also gave her opinions on current issue on the border tensions from an Indian perspective. Click
here to learn more.
【Policy Dialogue: Oversized Residential Trash Disposal and Recycle】Waste disposal, as a public policy issue, is a good window for observing city management of China. To well address waste management not only indicates an improvement of urban welfare, but also shows a presence of city brand. In a webinar hosted by ANBOUND on 2 July,
Dr. Richard Voith, President and Principal at Econsult Solutions, Inc., provided multiple policy solutions, a wide range of approaches to disposal and recycling of large residential waste which have been adopted by the U.S. residential communities. Four Administrative Chiefs from Town of Yongxing, Sichuan Province of China, and Jing Liu, Senior Research Analyst at Econsult Solutions, Inc. joined the discussion online.
>> The Chinese military has advanced to the stage of the joint campaign in terms of modernization after the three major transitions. Yet, there is a long way to go before the country becomes a powerful military force in the modern sense. The strategic thinking of modern world war lays the most emphasis on the ideas of the precision strike and war efficiency. For the world military forces, the main progress reflected in the above aspects. Compared with that, the gap is obvious in the Chinese forces. It is worth noting that since the massive Sino-Vietnamese war in 1979, China's military is the only peaceful one among the world's major powers, and it has not waged a real war for as long as 40 years. Even China has undergone three major military changes, its forces is still in a theoretical sense.
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