#BeltAndRoad

Stefan Vladisavljev

Reestated Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia, Ana Brnabić had her keynote address today.While the EU integration has been set as 1 of 6 strategic goals of the newly

Nadège Rolland

In my latest paper for @JoDemocracy I note that the pandemic has not forced the CCP to revise its strategic goals. Rather, Beijing sees the current global disarray as an

Indo-Pacific News

#China’s plan for $1.5 trillion #BeltandRoad empire left in tatters by #coronavirus pandemicChina is being forced to decide whether it wants to maintain its global influence or feed its own

Professor Simon Chadwick

China's use of stadium diplomacy strengthening & spreading - a new front in country's growing westward influence. Belarus a particularly notable recipient of assistance - important European partner in Belt

Johannes Urpelainen

THREAD: Biden's new climate plan has a number of good ideas for international engagement on #ClimateAction - a brief summary (1/N): Let's clear the obvious first, just like Joe

HUNTSMAN 🇺🇸

Entropy rules all.The only way to offset this fundamental tendency towards chaos and disorder is to input new energy into the system.It is re-cognition and using old assets in new

HUNTSMAN 🇺🇸

𝐎𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐒𝐞𝐚All war is about terrain and resources - these are the raw materials of power.And when multiple entities decide they MUST control a certain place or

𝙼𝙰𝚂𝚂 𝙴𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗

L̶a̶s̶t̶ ̶y̶e̶a̶r̶ Two years ago, my colleagues and I stood before our peers, faculty, & investors, lecturing on dangers an expansionist CCP posed to the world.These threats have exponentially increased

Osama Bin Javaid

Rights activists say at least 8,000 people have disappeared after being arrested by security forces in Indian-administered #Kashmir.For 17 yrs, Parveena Ahangar has been waiting for her missing son to return

arkancide_is_real

Arkancideisreal

THREAD: A quick lesson in medical statistics for those of you who believe the current "second wave" scare story out of #Victoria.It starts with the concepts of sensitivity, specificity and

A thread on my @ChathamHouse research report coauthored with @ShaharHameiri:"Debunking the Myth of ‘Debt-trap Diplomacy’: How Recipient Countries Shape China’s Belt and Road Initiative."It contains detailed case studies of #

HUNTSMAN 🇺🇸

This is what China did. They did not fully ban corn imports with ANY of the unapproved MIR162 trait.They just made the threshold low enough that it was virtually impossible

HUNTSMAN 🇺🇸

In the past few days, I've highlighted how China's #BeltandRoad Initiative (BRI) has been a trojan horse since 2013 for securing critical geopolitical footprints and resources throughout Eurasia, Africa, and

Loren DeJonge Schulman

Good morning world!Today is my last day at my beloved @CNASdc. I love this organization, its people, its mission, its output, and its culture more than anything I can think

Saikiran Kannan

Is it a Smokescreen or Blatant escalation?**A Long Thread on the latest developments at the Indo-China Border**China is in no mood for damage limitation; nor is it interested to repair

HUNTSMAN 🇺🇸

𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐢𝐧The axis of the world turns upon control of four resources:ProteinWaterEnergyFirepowerThe first is the subject of this thread.China's enormous population demands massive amou