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"One-China policy has become hollow"

Live interview on 29 January 2022 with Press TV

Dynamics and Repercussions of China's Rise and the Contest for Global Order

A PowerPoint presentation as talking points (on 22 December. 2021) for The Reorient! Podcast on international issues from an Asian perspective. 

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As mentioned in the Podcast, a feature of China's unexpected dominance is in state-of-the-art 21st century technologies of 5G, quantum computing, and AI (Artificial Intelligence), as flagged up by the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center in a Report The Great Tech Rivalry: China v the U.S. of December, 2021. by Graham Allison et al.

Accompanying the above is a simultaneous Report The Great Military Rivalry: China vs the U.S showing how the era of US military primacy is now over, with every domain —air, land, sea, space, and cyberspace contested by Russia and China. In the case of Taiwan, "China has the capability to deliver a fait accompli ..... before Washington would be able to decide how to respond", thanks to its sophisticated A2/AD (Anti-Access/Area Denial) capabilities. 

According to Ryan Haas, senior fellow at the Washington D.C.-based Brookings Institution, in his December 2021 Global Asia article,

"the US and China residing within a single system, both deeply interconnected, neither capable of imposing its will on the other through threat or use of military force, and neither capable of mobilizing a bloc to counter the other — both sides will be pushed to find opportunities to gain relative advantage over the other in long-term competition." 

"the path to global leadership may not run through any attempt to “win” the US-China great power competition, whatever that entails. It may be the result of which power proves most capable of delivering solutions to challenges at home and abroad". 

"China-U.S. confrontation all over the place now", regardless of reason

Live interview on 22 January 2022 with Press TV. 

WHAT THE WEST GETS WRONG ABOUT CHINA

The Reorient! Podcast published on 23 January, 2022, a new online podcast platform on East-West cross-currents of an emerging Asian Century. It's better to listen to the Podcast by clicking on the top bar instead of following the transcript which is unfortunately not entirely free of errors. 

US, Japan to sign new military partnership deal aimed at China, Russia, North Korea

Live interview on 7 January, 2022 with Press TV 

Iran International TV (in Persian) - US-China standoff over Taiwan

Pre-recorded TV interview with Iran International on 31 December, 2021 regarding US-China standoff over Taiwan. (My slot appears around time counter 20:25).

Contrary to Western-induced images of Iran as a closed, suffocating theocracy, the Iranian TV episode showcases lively, chicly-dressed, and highly polished TV presenters with well-selected quoted sources from the likes of the New York Times, Washington Post, The Financial Times and the Daily Telegraph.