Publications

Ten Reasons Why 2024 Marks an Inflexion Point Upending the Global Order - Journal on Political Sciences & International Relations

Research paper  (7,353 words excluding the Title and 36 hyperlinked footnotes) published on 5 March 2025 in the Journal on Political Sciences & International Relations (Department of Law, Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods (DEMM) Italy ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8882-7648))

 

How Eurasian Integration of China’s Belt and Road Initiative Defends a Multipolar World Order

Published as Chapter 5 in Trends and Transformations in World Politics (Edited by Özgür Tüfekçi and Rahman Dağ), Lexington Books, London and New York, 2022 Download Trends and Transformations in World Politics-Lexington Books (2022)

Beijing is debunking ‘China threat’ myth through trade and cooperation

Op-ed in the South China Morning Post (SCMP) of 15 January 2024.Download Debunking the China Threat myth (Front Op-ed Page with cartoon illustration)

Republished with attribution by Rome-based World Geostrategic Insights in French, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic.

An expurgated version appeared on the bottom front page of the China Daily Global Edition dated 9 Janaury 2024. Download China Daily - Faked China Threat (1) Download China Daily - Faked China Threat (2)

 

‘Clash of civilizations’ not inevitable in Sino-US ties

Op-ed in China Daily of 8 November 2023. Download Clash of civilizations’ not inevitable in Sino-US ties

Republished by Rome-based World Geostrategic Insights in French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic.

Chinese version 大国之间亦可“和而不同”  Also on Baidu 百度  (China's massive search engine network) 

China's Defense of Its Human Rights Policies

The above is a Paper by Prof. C.K.Chow of Yale University, published in the Penn State Journal of Law and International Affairs Volume 10 Issue 1 of February 2022, quoting me on p.5 (Footnote). (This does not imply that I fully agree with the esteemed professor's assessments.)  

Does US-hegemonic decline translate into a fight between “democracy” and “autocracy” in maintaining a benign world order?

Op-ed in Rome-based World Geostrategic Insights on 8 January 2023. Republished in French, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic.

How Xi’s Saudi Arabia visit shows rise of new world order beyond US hegemony

Op-ed dated 16 December 2022 in the South China Morning Post (SCMP). A different write-up, Towards a Better World Order, appeared in the China Daily (Hong Kong edition) on 23 December 2022.

Admiral Zheng He may have explored the New World way before Christopher Columbus

Admiral Zheng He's last daring global voyage (from 1431) was traced by Chinese historian and author Dr Sheng-Wei Wang. Meticulously studying ancient Chinese texts, ocean current flows and various archaeological finds, she posits that the Admiral may have reached Cape Breton Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, before making his way on small river boats to what is now the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in the central Mississippi Valley.

If so, the Admiral would have discovered the New World some six decades ahead of Christopher Columbus (1492). 

Dr. Wang's findings are laid out in her fascinating scholarly work "The Last Journey of the San Bao Eunuch Admiral Zheng He".  She invited me for a Book Review, which is appended below. 

Download The Last Journey of the San Bao Eunuch Admiral Zheng He

Download Book Review at request of Author of The Last Journey of The San Bao Eunuch Admiral Zheng He by Dr Sheng 

Book Review of "The Last Journey Of The San Bao Eunuch, Admiral Zheng He"

At the exclusive invitation of the author, Dr Sheng-wei Wang, the following is my book Review (in both English and Chinese).

Download Amended Chinese Book Review of “The Last Journey of The San Bao Eunuch Admiral Zheng He”

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A TV documentary series by CCTV 9 - 《历史的拐点·下西洋》 (History's Inflexion Points: The Treasure Voyages) Epistle 2 serves as an interesting introduction to Admiral Zheng He's historical exploits. 

China in the 2020's - Expect Game-Changing Developments

Feature Report in The Global Analyst, January, 2020, a flagship global business magazine of Hyderabad-based Media-Five Publications Pvt. Ltd., India, of which I am on the Advisory Board.

Download January 2020 The Global Analyst - China- Expect Game-Changing Developments in the 2020's