It’s hoped that the new U.S. administration will respect the Chinese people’s rights to pursue a better life, and choose to move closer toward China for the interests of its own people. Win-win is surely better than lose-lose.
The Biden administration is likely to renegotiate talks with the Taliban so as to keep a small number of troops or special forces dedicated to fighting terrorism and maintaining stability in Afghanistan, on the ground that a full withdrawal is not immediately feasible.
International commitments and continuity of policies need to be ensured. Developed nations need to update and submit new INDCs to raise their targets for increasing the use of renewable energy and cutting carbon dioxide emissions.
Given this changing global context, China’s engagement with a world in transformation is multifaceted, with the Belt and Road Initiative, a leadership role on addressing climate change, and new institutional linkages through organizations and mechanisms.
China has condemned the killing of the Iranian scientist. It stands for safeguarding the international nuclear non-proliferation system and opposes unilateral sanctions, while maintaining normal exchanges and cooperation with Iran.
Culture is in fact part of an underlying system of social governance, one that relies tremendously on something similar to soft power.
People in Shenzhen are daring to challenge stereotypes and think out of the box. Both the government and the business community are eager to seek changes.
As China is poised to enter a new stage with the 14th Five-Year Plan, it is essential to implement new ideas for a new development landscape. The vision is to build a country strong in science and technology with innovation at the core of the modernization.
Due to historical factors and geopolitics, trilateral relations among China, the ROK, and Japan did not always progress smoothly and the free trade agreement negotiations have still not seen a breakthrough. However, the RCEP broke through the bottleneck and ushered in a new stage of regional cooperation.
There are two main presuppositions for the efforts to yield better results. The first is the preservation of peace and multilateralism. And the second is finding a balance to keep globalization alive, even if a more nuanced approach has been forged since the outbreak of the pandemic.
The government needs to develop closer ties with market entities while maintaining integrity and impartiality.
While we Chinese scholars could do more to elaborate on China’s peaceful development and its foreign policy, our American counterparts may help Washington make the choice of living peacefully with a modernized, strong and prosperous China, a major country with a different culture and a different political and economic system.
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