https://www.scmp.com/rss/324539/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com As US President Donald Trump continued to upset long-standing allies at the G7 summit in Quebec, Chinese President Xi Jinping was busy consolidating the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) at its 18th summit in Qingdao. The SCO – since 2017 comprised of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and India – has in the past been dismissed by Western observers as either an ineffectual “talk shop” or a prospective “axis of authoritarians”. Such characterisations are... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/asia/article/2150634/xi-jinpings-global-vision-comes-together-security?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/asia/article/2150634/xi-jinpings-global-vision-comes-together-security?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 14 Jun 2018 06:00:00 +0000 Australia’s recently released Foreign Policy White Paper has been hailed as a “hard-nosed” document that correctly identifies an international and regional order in flux thanks to factors ranging from technological disruption to climate change and the rise of China. But it does not offer a coherent blueprint for responding to such significant forces of change. Instead, it prefers to loudly trumpet the strength of Australian values and international “rules” in shaping the regional order, with... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2122383/australia-must-get-used-new-order-china-major-player?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2122383/australia-must-get-used-new-order-china-major-player?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 01 Dec 2017 05:30:00 +0000 President Xi Jinping’s (習近平) Belt and Road Initiative seeks to make China the hub of trans-Eurasian economic connectivity . It will “benefit people across the world”, based as it is on the “Silk Road spirit” of “peace and cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning and mutual benefit”, as Xi told Beijing’s Belt and Road Forum last month. While such rhetoric may boost China’s diplomatic position, it may ring hollow in its own Eurasian frontiers, such as Xinjiang. Just this week,... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2097229/why-xi-jinpings-belt-and-road-rhetoric-inclusion-rings?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2097229/why-xi-jinpings-belt-and-road-rhetoric-inclusion-rings?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Jun 2017 03:55:10 +0000