International Relations

Newsweek: Here’s How to Stop to Elon Musk’s Risky Dealings With China

By: Jianli Yang | Oct 13, 2022 As a result of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's recent foreign policy advice, Hu Xijin, China's top propagandist and the former editor-in-chief of Chinese state media outlet Global Times, declared that Musk "will be taught a lesson." That veiled...
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The Hill: Three potential China problems if Elon Musk buys Twitter

By: Jianli Yang & Evan Osborne | Oct 12, 2022 Elon Musk’s decision to reverse course and offer to complete his $44 billion purchase of Twitter has again garnered concern about how his business interests in China could potentially affect his proclaimed approach to...
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WashTimes: The pursuit of alliances: The SCO and China’s Central Asia diplomacy

By: Jianli Yang - Sep 30, 2022 China’s president and the Chinese Communist Party’s general secretary, Xi Jinping, commenced his first foreign trip in over two years with a visit to Kazakhstan, returning to the birthplace of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) nine...
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WashTimes: Iraq worried about China’s control over oil

By Jianli Yang | September 5, 2022 In 2003, the United States invasion of Iraq liberated the Iraqi people from the tyrannical rule of Saddam Hussein. Nearly two decades later, China has been busy exploiting Iraq’s oil-rich resources by aligning with militia groups to...
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