China Studies as a whole brings into perspective the rising power's mounting economic, military and diplomatic clout that certainly has the aptitude to either overturn or sustain the current contemporary world order. The Center broadly examines China's international strategic thinking and conduct, foreign and security policy, and the impact of domestic politics and economy on China's foreign relations. It further addresses China's emergence in the face of the world in flux, domestic politics, economy, society, culture, People's Liberation Army and Tibet Autonomous Region and most importantly her engagement with each of South Asian country.
China today is becoming a threat in the South China Sea, the East China Sea and the Taiwan Strait and it is engaged in conducting water and air incursions in the Senkaku island of Japan and the Taiwan Strait respectively ...
Global Security Initiative seemed to be an extended version of Beijing’s earlier security initiatives that suits the current geopolitical situation and will not bring any drastic change to China’s policies toward international security ...
Ties between the US and its traditional allies vis-a-vis UK, Canada and Australia and China can no longer be viewed from simplistic binaries of left/right, liberal/conservative etc ...
The BRI juggernaut aims to incorporate China into a variety of zones of influence along its borders and in emerging countries. Beijing participates in debt-trap diplomacy, similar to China’s state capitalism, in which the Communist Party of China provides enterprises with cheap equity and debt ...
The best and only way for China to resolve these issues would be to encourage Iran and Persian Gulf countries to continue their negotiation path to make a more stable region under China’s growing influence ...
The US position as it was in the first decade of this century is not the same but the analysis of the American history and opinions of the thinkers suggest that it is not going anywhere anytime soo ...
With a South-Asian landscape that is undergoing constant transformation, the need of the hour for Nepal is the formulation of a policy that serves to its best interests without coercing it into entering a choosing game between the elephant on one side of its border and the dragon on the other ...
The pre-existing Sino-Russian alliance is already a cause of much worry for the US. China-led alliance of pre-existing strong authoritarian states of the likes of Russia and Iran along with those newly turned ones would make the US’s worst fears come true ...
While China’s BRI might be a probable danger for the countries of the Global South, who are caught in a severe economic trap, the B3W is never going to befall them without crafting strong implications for them ...
Belt and Road Initiative: Prospects and Challenges in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia has become an important zone for BRI due to the economic dynamism of Southeast Asia, a significant lack of infrastructure in the region, and its strategic location on the border with the southwestern states of China and the major Asia-Pacific Sea routes ...