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Europe’s Common Security and Defence Policy Amid the Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Why France-Germany Leadership Has Stalled by ZHENG Chunrong…
Overall, France and Germany are expected to retain their central role in advancing the CSDP in the years to come.
 • Chenghao Sun, Xuhan Bai, and Stefanie Perner
The Return of Geopolitics, International Competition for Critical Minerals and Supply Chain Restructuring by SUN Haiyong
The influence of mineral-rich and mineral processing countries in the Global South within the international division of labor for critical minerals is…
 • Chenghao Sun, Shangmin Li, Ge Ou, and Xueyu Zhang
Changes in U. S. Economic Policy Toward China Over the Past Three Decades and China’s Strategic Countermeasures by Zhu Min, Gong Bing and…
The direction of U.S. economic policy toward China in the Trump administration’s second term may be irreversible, yet its implementation remains…
 • Chenghao Sun, Jialin Li, and Yining Li
The Rise of “Sovereign AI” in the Global South and China’s Cooperative Responses by ZHANG Shuyan and CHEN Zhimin
Sovereign AI offers the Global South a path to technological autonomy and fairer global governance.
 • Chenghao Sun, Stefanie Perner, Yuhan Sun, and Xueyu Zhang
NI Feng: China’s American Studies-Evolution, Characteristics and Prospects
The goal of building an independent knowledge system for American Studies is to forge a new knowledge paradigm rooted in China, grounded in a deep…
 • Chenghao Sun, Liangyu Gao, Kexi Wu, and Xueyu Zhang
From Crisis Management to Strategic Stability in China-U.S. Relations by ZHOU Guiyin
This article moves beyond the common “new Cold War” framing and instead examines whether major power competition can remain manageable.
 • Chenghao Sun, Ge Ou, Liangyu Gao, and Xueyu Zhang
DA Wei and ZHOU Wuhua | Seeking Constructive Strategic Stability: China-U.S. Relations in the Era of Dual-Core Multipolity
Only through these concerted efforts can they usher in a longer cycle of a “Constructive Relationship of Strategic Stability."
 • Chenghao Sun, Yuhan Sun, Shangmin Li, and Xueyu Zhang
SUN Chenghao: Reading China-U.S. Summit
For China, this meeting was first and foremost a “tone-setting summit,” aimed at preventing China-U.S. relations from sliding into uncontrolled…
 • Chenghao Sun and Xueyu Zhang
SUN Chenghao: How China and the U.S. Can Expand AI Cooperation
Exploring Practical Pathways for China-U.S. Cooperation on Artificial Intelligence Amid Intensifying Strategic Competition
 • Chenghao Sun
SUN Chenghao: U.S.-China Geoeconomics Rivalry in the Rest of the World
From Iran to ASEAN and Latin America, U.S.-China geoeconomics is a global competition.
 • Chenghao Sun and Xueyu Zhang
Setbacks in Iran’s Resistance Strategy and Their Impact on the Middle East Regional Order by Jin Liangxiang
From Strategic Setback to Systemic Strain: Iran’s Resistance Strategy Under Pressure.
 • Chenghao Sun, Stefanie Perner, and Yuhan Sun
Reproducing U.S. Hegemony in the Digital Finance Era: Assessment of the Trump Administration’s Cryptocurrency Strategy by MA Bo and TU…
Regulatory competition, efforts toward de-dollarization, constraints on the dollar’s credibility, and fragmented domestic regulation will pose…
 • Chenghao Sun, Yijie Li, Xuhan Bai, and Hannah Shirley
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