CHINAwatch

Is Britain pro-China now?

Live TV debate with RoundTable on TRT World on 11 May 2023

Has the EU visit shown a ‘united European front’ or emboldened China's stance on Ukraine and Taiwan?

Live TV panel discussion on TRT World's "The Newsmakers" program on 10 April 2023 

New Zealand To Ban Chinese App TikTok On Government Devices After Ban In UK & U.S

Live TV panel discussion on Mirrow NOW (Times Now Group) of India on 17 March 2023

The Debate: Xi Jinping Handed Unprecedented 3rd Term, What Does It Mean For India?

Live TV panel debate with Republic TV of India on 11 March 2023

RTHK (Radio Television Hong Kong) on economics of the Two Sessions in Beijing

BackChat on RTHK on 6 March 2023 (My intervention start from time counter 15:50 and 28:33 in the first bar.)

"After coming to live in China, I have loved it here" - American digital entrepreneur Cyrus Janssen

A YouTube video clip of Cyrus Janssen's TED Talk in January 2023 illustrates why the world needs the ancient Chines adage 和而不同 "Harmony despite Differences" flagged up as a third bullet point in my China Daily op-ed of 10 February 2023. 

China's "global ambitions" according to two prominent Western sinologists

In Daring to Struggle: China's Global Ambitions Under Xi Jinping (10 June,2022), Bates Gill, Chair of the Department of Security Studies at Macquarie University and Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Insitute in London, focuses on China's six perceived strategic interests: Legitimacy; Sovereignty, Wealth, Power, Leadership and Ideas.

The Ideas consist of four strands - (a) a new global era with dynamic "changes not seen in a hundred years" as backdrop for the struggle to realize the China Dream of national renaissance; (b) an aim to build a "Community of Common Destiny" for mankind beset with interconnected and inter-dependent challenges like Climate Change and global security; (c) achieving global "unity with diversity" in international relations, relying on China's ancient adage of "harmony despite differences" (和而不同); and (d) seeking "Chinese Solutions" for global challenges instead of blindly following a superficial, one-size-fits-all Western hymnbook.  

In The Final Struggle: Inside China's Global Strategy (2022), Ian Eason, Senior Director of the Project 2049 Institute, based in Arlington, Virginia, USA, tries to turn President Xi's concept of "Common Destiny" on its head, hyping it as a sinister plot to achieve global dominance by shaping a panopticon "world government" bent to his will. Understandably, to veteran China-bashers and those otherwise infected with Sinophobia, every curved shadow would look like a snake, as the Chinese saying goes. (杯弓蛇影)

Eason's overhyped narrative and wafer-thin understanding of China notwithstanding, eye-catching infographics by Louis Martin Vezian are perhaps the most interesting parts of the book, showcasing at a glance how much national progress and global influence China has achieved over recent decades under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The following reproduced infographics may come in handy by way of reference or reminder. 

Download China's One-World Government (Louis Martin-Vezian)

Download Taking Over International Institutions (Louis Martin-Vezian)

Download Wall Street PRC (Louis Martin-Vezian)

Download PRC Owned IoT in America (Louis Martin-Vezian)

Download Compromised Container Ports (Louis Martin-Vezian)

Download We Surround You (Louis Martin-Vezian)

Download China is the Future (Louis Martin-Vezian)

Download Buying Global Influence - (Louis Martin-Vezian)

 

 

How to read and deal with China - Kishore Mahbubani on Aljazeera English's "The Bottom Line"

Kishore Mahbubani was a Singaporean diplomat for more than 30 years and served as president of the United Nations Security Council. He tells Aljazeera host Steve Clemons that the US should get accustomed to a multipolar world it can no longer dominate and learns how best to engage with a Rising China. 

Is China's Covid model broken?

Live TV interview dated 23 December on India Today TV

Cambridge Poll shows 70% of World Now Supports China

A Cyrus Janssen YouTube video clip of 25 November flags up a Cambridge University Centre for the Future of Democracy (CFD) report (published 20 October 2022) A World Divided: Russia, China and the West showing that:

(a) Among the 1.2 billion people who inhabit the world’s liberal democracies, three-quarters (75%) now hold a negative view of China, and 87% a negative view of Russia, according to the report, published today by the University’s Centre for the Future of Democracy (CFD).

(b) Yet among the 6.3 billion who live in the world’s remaining 136 countries, the opposite is the case – with 70% of people feeling positively towards China and 66% towards Russia.

This resonates with the final paragraphs of my Op-ed dated 22 November in the China Daily, in particular -

".. according to calculations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, developing countries will account for nearly 60 percent of the world's GDP on a purchasing-power parity basis by 2030. More are becoming confident enough to assert their national interests, individually or collectively, in defiance of hegemonic strong-arm tactics.

OPEC's recent refusal to expand oil production on US say-so is a case in point. More are likely to have China as the largest trading partner and to welcome, as espoused by Xi, a more inclusive world order not drawn on ideological lines."