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Deciphering the Xi-Putin meet in Moscow

Exclusive live interview with RT on 21 March 2023

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

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)

 

 

Iran’s president Ebrahim Raeisi says Tehran is seeking to join the BRICS group of nations and China supports the bid

Live exclusive interview with Press TV on 16 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. 

A straying Chinese balloon over Montana blows US-China talks off course, for now

Live exclusive interview with RT on 4 February 2023

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.