Having been able to defeat COVID-19 domestically, China is opting to support the rest of the world by supplying to nations in need who have been put to the “back of the queue” by the West.
The world is no safer from what it used to be. But China is emerging stronger and better engaged within it.
Difficult as it is, politics should be disconnected from the Olympics.
Creating space for more balanced and restrained co-existence is possible and ought to be the diplomatic priority.
The contradictions on display illustrate the deep abiding divisions within the governing Conservative Party on the matter and the pressing reality that China is deeply essential to the country’s post-Brexit vision.
The surge of Europe-China trade is firstly a sign of the Belt and Road Initiative’s success in integrating a continent and consolidating more efficient and effective supply chains, but it is secondly a sign that political stability delivers the most cohesive results.
The rapid expansion of China’s box office market is a testimony to the success of its transition towards a consumer economy. Going to the cinema is a form of modern consumption.
The group of 17 European countries that joined the China-CEEC Summit has not been very homogenous. Different priorities, histories, sizes and cultures are not ignored.
How Biden handles this relationship is critical to his presidency. Hopefully, he will take a pragmatic approach.
Western politicians and media long promoting the line that China was responsible for inflicting the COVID-19 pandemic on the world, need to admit they were wrong following the findings of a WHO scientific investigation.
The United States has long prided itself on the superiority of its economic system because of democracy, freedom and free markets. Increasingly, however, that is being exposed as a big lie.
The COVID-19 pandemic has made us keenly aware of how closely interwoven are the interests of all countries, and that humanity shares a common stake.
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