https://www.scmp.com/rss/10114/feed William H. Overholt, senior research fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School, is author or co-author of nine books, mainly about Asian development and geopolitics, most recently China’s Crisis of Success. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com For 10 days in July, a familiar kind of conflict occurred in the Pacific. One Asian country had piled concrete on a tiny rock, then called the rock an island and declared a 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone around it. Another country was conducting freedom of navigation operations inside that zone, declaring that the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea does not permit exclusive economic zones around rocks built up into artificial islands. Familiar – except that the country... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3096155/countering-china-us-must-not-lose-its-knack-nuanced-diplomacy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3096155/countering-china-us-must-not-lose-its-knack-nuanced-diplomacy?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 05 Aug 2020 19:30:09 +0000 An international obsession with the Chinese currency appears to be deflating. This passion began with Japanese accusations that China's undervalued currency was causing its deflation, continued with Europeans blaming it for slow European Union growth, hit full power with a vast US National Association of Manufacturers' campaign blaming it for job losses, and reached its pinnacle when Michigan's governor, Jennifer Granholm, declared she would back a presidential candidate based solely on the... https://www.scmp.com/article/434943/exposing-myths?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/434943/exposing-myths?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:00:00 +0000