Social Media Ideas for Beijing Diplomatic Strategy

China’s weaving of a web of ties makes it a diplomatic superpower

Beijing hosted the presidents of the United States and Russia within days of each other recently. China’s rising diplomatic standing is no accident. It is grounded in a tradition o...

Beijing Taps Veteran Diplomats to Gauge Trump’s Stance Ahead of the Midterms

The outreach comes as both countries continue to exchange diplomatic and economic measures despite a temporary easing of trade tensions ahead of another possible Trump-Xi summit la...

Beijing Turns to Diplomatic Pressure as Military Activity Around Taiwan Eases

Taiwan's Foreign Ministry says Beijing is increasingly using diplomatic pressure to isolate Taiwan and President Lai Ching-te internationally. The comments come as analysts point t...

China’s Moment to Shape a New Global Order 

Recent visits to Beijing by Trump and Putin and a more favorable geopolitical environment have given Beijing more strategic space to advance its vision.

Trilateral Dynamics: China’s Strategy to Test US Restraint of Japan

Takaichi’s overwhelming victory during the February election suggests China’s coercive approach might be counterproductive. But Beijing’s tactics are not aimed only at the bilatera...

How China is becoming the gravitational centre of global diplomacy

When Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in Beijing this week, just days after US President Donald Trump departed, following his summit with President Xi Jinping, the choreogr...

China’s Iran strategy an exercise in power without projection

The spectacle of US President Donald Trump thanking China for staying “neutral” with regard to the US-Israeli war against Iran would have been unthinkable a year ago. Yet at the Gr...

Official lays out Beijing’s overseas repression tactics

China’s Wang Yi to test whether transatlantic turmoil can soften Europe’s Nordic hawks

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi kicks off a rare tour of Europe’s Nordic countries on Thursday, as Beijing tests whether it can use shifting geopolitical sands to find openings am...

China will ‘actively’ help to resolve international conflicts, ex-diplomat says

China will actively participate in settling international conflicts and improve mechanisms for resolving them, a former Chinese diplomat has said, stressing that Hong Kong could se...

China Is Indispensable, But Not Dominant

Beijing has drawn the great powers into its orbit without controlling their strategic choices.

How Beijing could use its military and trade to hit back at Tokyo-Manila ties

Beijing could conduct military operations, bolster its electronic warfare strength and roll out trade sanctions in response to Tokyo and Manila’s deepening defence cooperation, acc...

Beijing’s message for Asean – China doesn’t want to become a regional hegemon

In comments directed at Asean, a top Communist Party official reiterated that Beijing did not want to become a regional hegemon, while vowing to strengthen its energy cooperation w...

Xi’s new US-China formula signals a self-confident shift in terms

One of the most notable outcomes of last month’s Xi-Trump summit in Beijing was not tangible. Rather, it was Xi Jinping’s introduction of a new authoritative formulation, or tífǎ,...

Xi Jinping’s Expansionism Has Unified the Democratic World Against Beijing

For years, Beijing’s strategy rested on a single assumption: that democratic governments were too fractured, too economically dependent on Chinese trade, and too risk-averse to org...

How China wins by avoiding war

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing in a much weaker position than he did more than four years ago, when he launched his invasion of Ukraine shortly after his last...

Xi Jinping's summits with Trump and Putin reveal 2 approaches

BEIJING — On the surface, Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s back-to-back summits with U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin looked pretty similar, with formal handshake...

China-UK ties thaw: Wang Yi urges that they ‘further communicate and align our positions’

China and Britain have pledged to enhance high-level exchanges and deepen cooperation amid a turbulent global landscape, following a meeting of their top diplomats in Beijing. Chin...

How Trump and Putin’s back-to-back visits put Beijing at the centre of great-power diplomacy

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s back-to-back Beijing visits gave Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping a rare optics win, projecting China as a power both...

Can China-US breadbasket diplomacy sidestep tension over American’s arrest?

Officials from key US farm-belt states joined their Chinese provincial counterparts on Tuesday in a cooperation dialogue, the latest pivot towards closer engagement following Presi...

The world may or may not be entering ‘Beijing time’

In recent weeks, the back-to-back state visits to Beijing by Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump have put China in the global spotlight. For some interna...

China Is Ready to Get Tough

Beijing’s diplomatic retaliation has limits—but fewer than before.

As the US dismantles its global hegemony, will China step up?

As the US voluntarily dismantles its global hegemony, China has neither the will nor the capacity to fill the role, a prominent Chinese foreign policy expert has argued. Beijing wa...

China will be a neighbour Mongolia can rely on, Foreign Minister Wang Yi pledges

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pushed for stronger cross-border transport and trade ties during a visit to Mongolia over the weekend as Beijing sought to anchor the country’s new...