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Xi Jinping's Russia Visit: Official talks between Putin and Jinping held on March 21

LIve TV interview on 21 March 2023 with WION (World is One News), a leading private English TV channel in India. 

The Great Tech Rivalry - China v the US: How China will surpass USA in key 21st Century technologies by 2030

Drawing from the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Centre December 2021 Report - The Great Tech Rivalry: China vs the US, a YouTube podcast dated 18 March  2023 summarizes the state of play in 21st Century technologies comprising Artificial Intelligence (AI), 5G & 6G, Quantum Information Science, Semiconductors, Bitoechnoloy, and Green Energy, indicating that China is likely to surpass the US by 2030 in key domains in these fields. 

The full Belfer Centre Report may be accessed here.

What were the key takeaways from China’s National Congress session?

Live exclusive TV interview with TRT World on 13 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

China's Growth Is Seen As Threat To US' Hegemony”: China Strategist

Live TV panel discussion on 10 March 2023 with NDTV, an Indian award-winning 24x7 TV channel now with the Adani Group. 

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)

 

 

Implications of Iran President Ebrahim Raisi's visit to Beijing

Exclusive live interview with Press TV on 14 February 2023. 

Chinese balloon over American homeland an unfortunate incident interrupting fence-mending efforts

Exclusive interview on 5 February 2023 with NDTV. a popular English TV Channel owned by India's Adani Group with 12.3 million subscribers. 

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. 

“US trying to derail China as emerging rival”

Live interview on 1 February 2023 with Press TV.