Publications

How American hubris is hastening the decline of US-led global order

Op-ed in South China Morning Post (SCMP) of 25 July, 2022. 

To avert mutual destruction, President Biden should shift his Administration's focus from "maximum confrontation" to "constructive re-engagement"

Feature article "Engaging With China: America's Best Foot Forward?" in the Annual Special Issue of The Global Analyst of 6 January, 2022. The publication is a flagship global business magazine of Hyderabad-based Media-Five Publications Pvt. Ltd., India, of which I am on the Advisory Board.

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Republished  with permission by Rome-based World Strategic Insights on 15 January, 2022. Also in French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic. 

Seven reasons the US and China should be building more bridges not tearing them down

Op-ed in the South China Morning Post of 29 November, 2021. 

How will a new US-China "Cold War" play out?

Feature article of 25 October, 2021 in World Strategic Insights, an international non-profit geostrategic platform based in Rome. Also published in French, Italian, Russian and Arabic. 

Is China's Dual Circulation Strategy moving from market driven growth to planned allocation?

Op-ed  of 13 October, 2021 in World Strategic Insights, an international non-profit geostrategic platform based in Rome.

Competition Without Catastrophe - Can America both challenge and coexist with China?

Op-ed of 13 October, 2021 in World Strategic Insights, an international non-profit geostrategic platform based in Rome.

 

How the US can offer a realistic response to the "China challenge"

Op-ed in the South China Morning Post of 26 February, 2021.

Along similar lines, Ryan Hass's Op-ed China Is Not Ten Feet Tall: How Alarmism Undermines American Strategy of 3 March, 2021 in Foreign Affairs concludes as follows:

"The more the United States can restore confidence that it is the country best prepared in the world to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century, the better it will be able to focus attention where it matters most: not on slowing China down but on strengthening itself. To compete effectively with China, Washington will need to focus on bolstering the United States’ domestic dynamism, international prestige, and unmatched global network of alliances and partnerships. These are the real keys to the United States’ strength, and China cannot take them away."   

China's Economic Interests in the GCC are informed by energy security and global geopolitics

"China has no ambition of dislodging the United States from the Arab Peninsula. A cordial relationship with all Members of the GCC is in its best interest." That is the lead-in to my Op-ed of 17 February, 2021 in Politics Today, an Istanbul-based international online publisher on contemporary global politics. 

Rogue Superpower: Why This Could Be an Illiberal American Century

Op-ed dated 31 January, 2021 in World Geostrategic Insights, an international non-profit geostrategic platform based in Rome. 

America bids farewell to Trump, but Trumpism lives on

Op-ed in the South China Morning Post (SCMP) of 21 January, 2021