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#18 China Scholar Insights: The Evolution of the Global Power Structure Under the Rise of the Global South and China’s Role
The Global South’s collective rise, a key global transformation, reshapes the global power structure, with China playing a constructive role through…
 • Chenghao Sun, Stefanie Perner, Yujie Shao, XinYue Zhang, Zhuofan Liu, YUMI YAMADA, CHEN WENG U, Xinyi Li, and Xueyu Zhang
SUN Chenghao: What Trump’s 2025 NSS Means for China
NSS signals a foreign policy orientation that is more domestically focused, more economically driven, more skeptical of alliances, more transactional…
 • Chenghao Sun and Xueyu Zhang
#15 China Scholar Insights: China-U.S. Crossroads Trump and Xi Face the APEC Moment
Their meeting at the 2025 APEC summit will mark a pivotal juncture in how the world’s two largest economies manage competition without tipping into…
 • Chenghao Sun, Stefanie Perner, Yujie Shao, XinYue Zhang, Zhuofan Liu, YUMI YAMADA, CHEN WENG U, Xinyi Li, and Xueyu Zhang
U.S. Rare Earth Policy in the Context of Great Power Strategic Competition by ZHANG Wenjing
As competition intensifies, China must prepare for sustained strategic contestation, reinforcing its technological, industrial, and diplomatic…
 • Chenghao Sun, Xueyu Zhang, Yijie Li, and Hannah Shirley
The Evolutionary Trends and Impact of EU-Russia Relations under Strategic Autonomy by WANG Hongyi and XU Gang
Against the backdrop of the EU’s pursuit of strategic autonomy, the future evolution of EU–Russia relations will take on new dynamics.
 • Chenghao Sun, Yijie Li, Xuhan Bai, and Hannah Shirley
WU Xinbo: The Evolution of US Asia-Pacific Strategy and the Future of Regional Security Order
This round of structural adjustment is accompanied by rising geopolitical tensions and mounting security risks.
 • Chenghao Sun, Xuhan Bai, Yuxuan Zhang, and Hannah Shirley
#14 China Scholar Insights: The Prospect of China-U.S. Relations
The relationship’s stability hinges on maintaining bounded competition amid ongoing tensions.
 • Chenghao Sun, WANG JINGYI, Yutong PEI, RUILIAN XIAN, Ngoc (Jade) Bui, Wen Yiran, Xuhan Bai, and Hannah Shirley
“Trump 2.0” Is Reshaping NATO Defense Sharing: Characteristics, Motivations and Impacts by Sun Chenghao and Li Jialin
The transformation of NATO defense burden-sharing mechanism from "collective security" to "security deals" is reshaping transatlantic defense and…
 • Chenghao Sun, Yuhan Sun, Shangmin Li, and Hannah Shirley
From Trump 1.0 to Trump 2.0: Impact of Evolution of US Trade Policies and China’s Countermeasures by ZHAO Chunming and DING Yong
Only by integrating development and security and combining internal structural reform with external openness and cooperation can China effectively…
 • Chenghao Sun, Yijie Li, Xuhan Bai, and Hannah Shirley
The Trump Administration's Strategy for the Digital Economy and Its Prospects by WANG Zhenyu and YE Chengcheng
Understanding U.S. digital economy policy is key to navigating shifting global tech standards, market dynamics, and emerging governance risks.
 • Chenghao Sun, Yuhan Sun, Shangmin Li, and Hannah Shirley
#13 China Scholar Insights: China-U.S. AI Competition
AI has emerged as a pivotal factor in 21st-century global geopolitics, with the primary great-power competition centered on the U.S. and China.
 • Chenghao Sun, Yutong PEI, Jiaying Wang, RUILIAN XIAN, Wen Yiran, Ngoc (Jade) Bui, Xueyu Zhang, and Hannah Shirley
U.S. Alliance Strategy under Trump 2.0 and the Transformation of the U.S. Alliance System by Yuan Zheng and Chen Guiyun
Divisions within U.S. alliances will increase, allies’ strategic autonomy will grow, and the internal cohesion of the alliance system will decline as…
 • Chenghao Sun, Yuxuan Zhang, Stefanie Perner, and Hannah Shirley
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