Eighty-one years after Japan’s surrender, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s rearmament drive and a record defense budget are leading many to question whether Japan has truly embraced peace.
Sep 3, 2026
China’s growing positive role and the hope it offers the majority disadvantaged by the Western-dominated global system demand China’s perspective in reshaping a better world.
Sep 2, 2026
China’s approach to human rights moves beyond the protection of individual and legal rights, placing greater emphasis on a people-centred and pragmatic approach and recognizing the importance of responsibility both to and for society at the national and international levels.
Sep 2, 2026
Viewed as a whole, this trip is best understood not as a discrete diplomatic event but as one installment in a broader and continuing pattern.
Sep 1, 2026
The GGI’s language points toward a harder standard: whether the people a policy was supposed to help noticed any difference in their own lives.
Sep 1, 2026
A genuinely multipolar order should mean widening participation, increasing representation, creating additional avenues for cooperation, and giving countries greater freedom to pursue development according to their own circumstances.
Aug 31, 2026
General Motors will continue China-based production of Chevrolet cars for export, but the transformations that have occurred in China are taking place globally.
Aug 28, 2026
China’s development has brought the world opportunity not ‘shock’ and empowerment not ‘squeeze.’
Aug 28, 2026
Nearly 160 countries and organizations have backed the Global Governance Initiative (GGI) in its first year. The next phase will carry that support into financing, digital rules and stronger representation for developing countries.
Aug 27, 2026
To foster meaningful international dialogue and avoid dangerous miscalculations, global analysts, economists and policymakers must move beyond shallow ‘ideology’ narratives.
Aug 27, 2026
Against the grand narratives of geopolitical rivalry and ideological confrontation, the ability of ordinary people to put food on the table and realize their potential may be the simplest and most fundamental aspiration of all.
Aug 25, 2026
That ship that left Ningbo in early August wasn’t merely carrying electric vehicles and solar panels. It was carrying proof that the three gates the world has relied on for a century are no longer the only ones.
Aug 25, 2026