Publications

The 5 major blind spots pushing the US into conflict with China

South China Morning Post Op-ed dated 3 October 2024. 

China's Third Plenum 2024 - Behind the jargons and the rhetoric

Feature article in The Global Analyst of August, 2024. 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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A helpful analytical interpretation is provided by Professor Yang Yao of Peking University in his op-ed of 13 August 2024 in the South Chijna Morning Post.

For more Third Plenum background perspective on the socio-economic tensions in China, read Howard French's piece of 7 August China Is Neither Collapsing Nor Booming in Foreign Policy. 

 

 

People-to-people exchanges would keep China-US relations in balance

Op-ed in China Daily Hong Kong of 9 April 2024. A national version is here.

A short, modified Chinese version appeared in Wen Wei Po (online) dated 13 April 2024. 

Speculation about the SAR’s impending demise is overexaggerated

Op-ed in China Daily Hong Kong Edition of 3 March 2024.

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)

 

US needs to accept it’s a multipolar world and work with China

Op-ed in South China Morning Post of 14 October 2023. Republished by Rome-based World Geostrategic Insights in French, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic. 

Sinophobic "de-risking" unlikely to derail China's renaissance

China Daily Op-ed of 21 August 2023. Republished by Rome-based World Geostrategic Insights in French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic

Following are Chinese versions in China Daily and 网易 163 com (Mainland China's massive multi-media internet platform) 

Myth of ‘Peak China’ is an overexaggerated and misplaced idea

Op-ed in China Daily of 21 June 2023. Download Myth of Peak China - China Daily Op-ed (PDF) Re-posted on Beijing's official Foreign Ministry website. 

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

Following are the abridged Chinese versions: 中国日报, 每日點新聞

John Lee's Middle East trip rife with potential

Op-ed in the China Daily of 10 February 2023. Republished with attribution by Rome-based World Geostrategic Insights in French, Spanish, and Russian.

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. 

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