Managing Rivalry: China’s Strategy for Coexistence with the U.S.

Against this backdrop, the only viable response for China is to expand openness.

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America’s Future: How Beijing is Planning Its Next Move

If the United States truly evolves in the direction Trump is pushing, China and the U.S. may not tumble as quickly into the abyss of a “new Cold War” as they did during Trump’s first term and the Biden years.

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When China Rules the Rivers

China knows it holds a great geo-hydrological power; the question is whether it will abuse it—contradicting President Xi’s own calls for promoting “peace, development, equity, justice, democracy and freedom.” One way or another, the Himalayan water drama has only just begun.

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China, India, and the United States in a Multipolar World

Despite competing interests in their outreach towards the Global South, which both countries have historically seen themselves as the leader of, both the Indian and Chinese publics largely believe that more economic and political importance will shift to the developing world as the 21st century progresses.

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Empires Age Like Dynamite

The result across Southeast Asia is hedging, a strategy of trying to exist between the United States and China that inadvertently thwarts their ability to decouple and maintains economic integration.

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