https://www.scmp.com/rss/322527/feed Joey Wang is a defence analyst in the United States. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com In July 2016, an international tribunal rejected China’s claims of sovereignty over the territory within a vaguely-defined nine-dash line in the South China Sea, concluding that Beijing’s claim violated international law. While the United States takes no position on the competing claims in the South China Sea, Washington does reject Beijing’s claim and has deployed two carrier strike groups in dual-carrier operations through the contested waters. Punctuating this position is US Secretary of... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3096328/south-china-sea-alliance-democracies-ready-counter-beijing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3096328/south-china-sea-alliance-democracies-ready-counter-beijing?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 07 Aug 2020 17:30:08 +0000 Given the Communist Party’s tight grip on power, it is hardly surprising that it would mortgage the health of Chinese citizens early in the coronavirus crisis to preserve the political system. Indeed, while China has responded faster to the coronavirus epidemic than it did the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in 2002-3, it has also exposed an inherent flaw in its system, by silencing and punishing those who deviate from official orthodoxy. Even though the Sars disaster demonstrated the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3051164/three-mistakes-chinese-government-has-made-its-mishandling?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3051164/three-mistakes-chinese-government-has-made-its-mishandling?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 19 Feb 2020 01:00:04 +0000 Border tensions between China and Bhutan in 2017 left Indian and Chinese troops facing off on the Doklam Plateau for 70 days. The crisis led Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to institutionalise their informal summits to avoid a repeat of such confrontations. The two nuclear powers met for an informal summit in April last year in Wuhan, where Xi said: “Conducting great cooperation by our two great countries can generate worldwide influence”, adding that he... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3035267/why-india-and-china-need-stay-friends-its-all-about-economy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3035267/why-india-and-china-need-stay-friends-its-all-about-economy?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:00:12 +0000 In his recent “message to compatriots in Taiwan” to mark the 40th anniversary of a call from Beijing to end military confrontation across the Taiwan Strait, President Xi Jinping offered them a five-point “peaceful unification” proposal, but made no promise to renounce the use of force. The communique reveals a subtler “grand plan” of China. The Taiwan issue is simply one step in Beijing’s larger strategic goal of pushing the United States and its influence out of the Indo-Pacific... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2183127/taiwan-belt-and-road-chinas-grand-plan-push-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2183127/taiwan-belt-and-road-chinas-grand-plan-push-us?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 23 Jan 2019 01:00:45 +0000 Even if the ongoing trade negotiations between China and the United States don’t look like a “trade war”, they can certainly be interpreted to be the events leading up to one.  In partial response to the US investigation into Chinese infringements of intellectual property rights (IPR), the government has recommended the application of an additional 25 per cent tariff on US$50 billion worth of Chinese products. In the meantime, China has its own list of US products subject to tariffs of up to 25... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2146345/china-will-improve-its-ipr-protection-not-result-us-pressure?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2146345/china-will-improve-its-ipr-protection-not-result-us-pressure?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 16 May 2018 08:45:30 +0000 With the 19th Communist Party Congress concluded, President Xi Jinping’s “Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era” is now ­enshrined as the North Star for government action. His thought, ­incorporated into the constitution, is the continued development of the “Belt and Road Initiative” as part of the “Chinese dream”. The initiative, first unveiled by Xi in 2013 as a “One Belt, One Road” strategy, is expected to relieve China of the “Malacca dilemma”, what then president... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2127415/belt-and-road-or-chinese-dream-return-tributary-states-sri?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2127415/belt-and-road-or-chinese-dream-return-tributary-states-sri?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 09 Jan 2018 09:28:24 +0000 In the midst of escalating tensions between the US and China, particularly in the East and South China seas, serious questions are being raised about the future of peace, security and prosperity in the region. Reflecting on these tensions, we need to return to the founding principles that originally brought wealth and mutual prosperity to both nations. Much has been written about China’s “peaceful rise”. And with this meteoric rise there has been an increase in military modernisation and its... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1938610/why-us-will-gain-nothing-seeking-contain-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1938610/why-us-will-gain-nothing-seeking-contain-china?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:45:45 +0000