Did China Get Sri Lanka to Cough Up a Port?

“China got Sri Lanka to cough up a port,” said the New York Times in a widely quoted article published on June 25, 2018.The article claimed, “Every time Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa turned to his Chinese allies for loans and assistance with an ambitious port project, the answer was yes.

Jul 30, 2018

WWII and China : The Untold Story

Seventy years ago, as the main eastern battlefield during World War II, China fought heroically against Japanese aggressors for 14 years. In 1942, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt commented that if China had not been involved in the war, or had lost to the Japanese, one could only imagine how many Japanese army corps would have been deployed not only in China but also in other nations such as Australia and India.

Jul 25, 2018

Revisiting Trump’s Unusual Diplomacy

U.S. President Donald Trump’s imposition of trade tariffs on China has gone further than ever to establish his approach to diplomacy by means of shock effects. It is not that he is suddenly launching new ideas which had not previously been mentioned in the U.S. political debate.

Jul 20, 2018

Data Shows China’s Strong Support for the WTO

Maintaining the framework of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is a key issue for the prosperity of every country – including China. In developing countries well over a billion people have been lifted out of poverty by economic growth underpinned by globalization, while international trade strongly supports the living standard of advanced countries.

Jul 8, 2018