“With God’s help, we will lift Shanghai up and up, ever up, until it is just like Kansas City,” Kenneth Wherry, then the mayor of a small town in Nebraska, proudly proclaimed in 1940. It was a glaring display of race-driven paternalistic attitudes of the 19th and 20th centuries. Nearing a century later, the United … Read more
Advertisement The global landscape today is punctuated by profound shifts, and at the forefront of these changes are China and the United States. Their interactions, negotiations, and disputes not only define their bilateral relationship, but shape the contours of global geopolitics. Historically, these two nations have vacillated between collaboration and confrontation, with recent times seeing … Read more
Advertisement India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar while attending the 2023 EU-India Pacific Ministerial Forum declared that “a multipolar world is feasible only by a multipolar Asia.” India’s multipolar model demands an international political system where it can exercise greater agency and influence in different strategic regions, institutions, and negotiations. To achieve this goal, New … Read more
Advertisement With the decline and eventual collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the world hurriedly embraced Western liberal democracy as the “final form of human government.” However, John Fairbank, a renowned historian of China at Harvard, contested this prevailing “end-of-story” narrative, asserting that “no foreign model could fit the Chinese situation.” He believed that … Read more
Advertisement Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang visited Germany, France and Norway from May 8 to 12, meeting with his counterparts in each country. This trip came two weeks after Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, had their first contact since Russia’s invasion. Xi’s call with Zelenskyy sits at the pinnacle of … Read more