https://www.scmp.com/rss/295875/feed Claudia Astarita is a lecturer at Sciences Po Paris and an associate researcher at the Institut d’Asie Orientale (IAO), Lyon. She earned her PhD in social sciences, specialising in Asian Studies, from the University of Hong Kong. Her primary research areas include the political and economic development of China, India and Japan; Chinese, Indian and Japanese foreign policies; East Asian regionalism and regional economic integration, civil society, media, historical narratives, propaganda, and... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Hong Liu,Claudia Astarita Hong Liu,Claudia Astarita As the United States grows more unpredictable under President Donald Trump, some European nations are considering a pragmatic partnership with China. Could this lead to a new triangular balance, or will it deepen Europe’s isolation? Under a second Trump presidency, Europe finds itself caught in a geopolitical no man’s land. Washington’s increasingly erratic foreign policy, Russia’s protracted invasion of Ukraine and the failure to craft a unified European Union strategy towards either Russia or... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3313950/why-europe-must-end-its-strategic-drift-working-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3313950/why-europe-must-end-its-strategic-drift-working-china?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:30:07 +0000 Europe needed to witness another catastrophic shipwreck before finally approving a joint migrant-rescue mission in the Mediterranean. Up to 800 people died last weekend after a boat crowded with migrants capsized in the sea north of Libya. On Monday, another boat sank off the Greek island of Rhodes. With European Union countries busy discussing how to strengthen search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean, nobody seems interested in identifying a sustainable strategy to deal with the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1775228/europes-migrant-challenge-sea-change-needed?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1775228/europes-migrant-challenge-sea-change-needed?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 Apr 2015 03:54:05 +0000 Reactions to the announcement that Pope Benedict is to step down at the end of the month have been strong. Some have been unexpected. No matter how difficult his time as pope has been, due to the scandals that have seriously undermined the stability of the Catholic Church, the reactions are revealing from another perspective. Above all, the pope's decision revealed something that nobody has ever been brave enough to admit: Italy's indifference to the evolution of the Catholic Church. Once... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1150277/act-humility-befits-pope?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1150277/act-humility-befits-pope?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:00:00 +0000