https://www.scmp.com/rss/508442/feed Aravinda Korala was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka and lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the CEO of KAL ATM Software headquartered in Munich, Germany. He has a degree in electronics from King’s College London and a PhD in artificial intelligence from Edinburgh University. He is a French, Sri Lankan dual national. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Three months, it seems, is a long time in geopolitics. I wrote at the start of the year that China will not forget how it was treated by the West in 2020. A lot has changed, though, since US President Joe Biden was inaugurated. On February 20, Biden said “strategic competition” would be the future of US-China relations. That was a breath of fresh air. After former president Donald Trump’s bare-knuckled approach to managing the relationship, it is good to see that a semblance of reality has... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3125241/us-china-relations-new-era-great-power-competition-will-leave-whole?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3125241/us-china-relations-new-era-great-power-competition-will-leave-whole?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 15 Mar 2021 17:30:16 +0000 When the history of China vs the West is written, 2020 will be seen as a pivotal moment. It is the year of the Huawei affair, the year when US President Donald Trump’s tariffs bounced off the Chinese economic juggernaut, the year in which the Covid-19 crisis demonstrated that the West does not have all the answers, and the year in which chip blackmail became a fact. It is a year China will not forget. For all the talk of global rules and level playing fields, it became clear the United States... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3115962/how-us-can-secure-its-global-leadership-role-despite-falling-behind?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3115962/how-us-can-secure-its-global-leadership-role-despite-falling-behind?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 01 Jan 2021 17:30:10 +0000