China
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China’s Quest for Blockbuster Soft Power
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With mounting pressures domestically, a lot of thought goes into ensuring the right films for domestic audiences are produced, rather than considering global viewership. Only time will tell if they can break America’s hold on global hegemony through their own soft power, even if it is done a blockbuster at a time.
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China’s Two Trade-Offs in Xi’an
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It is no doubt that China won a resounding victory in Xi’an, but her triumph was not without ills, especially when considered in the broader diplomatic context.
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OPR Interviews Stephen Roach
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Our Interviews Editor Jason Chau and former Editor-in-Chief Simon Hunt sit down with Stephen Roach for a discussion on China-Russia relations, the geopolitics of technology, the Chinese domestic economy, and more.
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“The World Would be Plunged into a Manufacturing Crisis Unseen Since 1929”: Chris Miller on Chip War and Taiwan
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In our interview, we talked about the state of technological competition between the West and China, the development of microchips in the past decades, and the global reliance on Taiwan, a place situated at the very center of the most consequential geopolitical divide of our time.
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The Strategic Impetus and Geopolitical Consequences of India’s Deniability Outlook towards China
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India’s policy should instead be seen as rooted in “strategic deniability,” which aims to foster border deterrence. While India faces many compulsions and incentives to adopt this policy stance, it is ultimately infeasible in the long-term for how it may exacerbate regional tensions, positioning India on the brink of a confrontational future.
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Money Machine: A Riveting Read From One of Private Equity’s Very Best
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In Money Machine, Shan, the first China Tsar for JP Morgan and a Co-Managing Partner of Newbridge Capital, recounts his experience in leading an unprecedented takeover and restructuring by a foreign private equity firm of a Chinese national bank, the Shenzhen Development Bank (SDB).
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Debunking the Economic and Political Myths of Deglobalization
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Looking at the contemporary global economy, many assumptions about deglobalization make the mistake of looking at globalization as a political ideology, and interpreting any deviation from its ‘deterministic’ trajectory, as an existential moment.
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“This is an issue that makes me very nervous”: John Mearsheimer on the US-China Rivalry
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“The Chinese are never the aggressors, always the victims. It sounds a lot like American exceptionalism: Americans also like to think that they are the good guys.” Jason Chau and Andrew Wang speak to University of Chicago professor and famous international scholar, John Mearsheimer, about the US-China rivalry.
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India’s Quest for Minilaterals in the Indo-Pacific
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Apart from the flexibility, countries like India feel that minilateral groupings act as practical alternatives to traditional alliances, often perceived as sclerotic.
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How the G7 Should Execute its $600 Billion Answer to China’s Belt and Road Initiative
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To realize its $600 billion PGII plan, G7 leaders must look beyond its economic dimension and execute the grand plan multidimensionally, particularly in security and political dimensions.