Carnegie China is an East Asia-based research center focused on China’s regional and global role.
Russia has its Eurasian Economic Union, and China has its Belt and Road Initiative. For both projects, Central Asia is important.
Quiet but important shifts in Taiwan’s politics that will have critical implications for cross-strait ties.
One reason Pacific Island countries continue to borrow from China is their huge demand for infrastructure.
Engaging with China and with the United States are not zero-sum choices for Southeast Asia, but the challenge for the region’s leaders and diplomats is actually about keeping the United States interested in the region.
The Chinese foreign policy establishment will likely continue to actively promote the Global Security Initiative, Global Development Initiative and Global Civilisation Initiative as the new pillars of China’s foreign policy.
For the Philippines, China’s actions in the contested maritime region are alarming, and the costs of not doing anything—or not doing enough—come with a high price.
Scholars from eight Southeast Asian countries provide their takes on the impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in their countries for the past decade.
China’s role in the Mekong region demonstrates that development cooperation often requires closer security cooperation.
Carnegie China scholars share their assessment of the Biden-Xi meeting and its implications for U.S.-China relations going forward.
Southeast Asian capitals would prefer that the U.S. and PRC manage their relationship, if not get along.
As the world undergoes a new round of fragmentation and major power rivalry that includes the advancing of divergent visions of global order, Singapore is discovering that its interests are increasingly being pulled in different directions.
If China hopes to sway the United States on a No First Use policy, it stands to benefit from a better understanding of how its own behavior affects the conventional security concerns of U.S. allies.
There is a certain level of restraint, but there is also a lingering distrust.
Washington aims to convince Southeast Asian countries that U.S. military power in the region is benign, while Beijing aims to convince the region that its rise offers economic opportunities. Malaysia assesses both powers as having constructive roles to play.
The Biden administration identified the order as part of its de-risking strategy but limiting the flow of investment into China takes the approach to a new level.
U.S.-China relations appear to be set on a trajectory towards long-term competition and rivalry.
A fragile reconnection in U.S.-China diplomacy presents an opportunity to begin to set the terms of strategic competition.
Even though Beijing is competing, it doesn’t want to define bilateral relations in competitive terms.
China’s counterterrorism efforts in Southeast Asia could change under the Global Security Initiative.
Transactional relationships are stable but can be shallow.