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Foreign Policy Analysis
Will China leapfrog itself in the next five-year plan?
Editor’s note: Hussein Askary, a special commentator for CGTN, is the Vice-Chairman of the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden, and a Distinguished Research Fellow in the Guangdong Institute for International Strategies. The article reflects the author’s opinions and not necessarily the views of CGTN. China’s Premier Li Qiang delivered a government work report (GWR) on […]
Foreign Policy Analysis
Two Sessions 2026: 14th National People’s Congress holds press conference
The 14th National People’s Congress has held a news conference, briefing the public on key concerns and policy signals that may ripple across the globe. Our reporter Feng Yilei has the latest. 14th National People’s Congress is ready for its fourth session starting Thursday. Deliberation on China’s social and economic plan for the next […]
Development Assistance
China’s FDI Pivot is Uganda’s Road to Real Growth
The Chinese Belt and Road Initiative has defined Africa’s relationship with China for over a decade. Within this time the average Ugandan’s interaction with China was largely limited to the importation of “cheap” Chinese goods and the Entebbe Expressway. The latter has always been an infamous scapegoat in conversations of the fictitious “Debt trap diplomacy” […]
Foreign Policy Analysis
Protect Taiwan Act Escalates Tensions, Interference in China’s Internal Affairs
On February 9th, the House of Representatives in Washington passed bill H.R. 1531 a law which if it comes into force will by far be the most extreme action that the United States government has undertaken in as regards to China-Taiwan affairs in a long while. Also known as the Protect Taiwan Act (PTA), the […]
Foreign Policy Analysis
On China’s Two Systems Policy
The first time that the concept of “One Country, Two Systems” was formally presented was during a meeting between Deng Xiaoping and the president of the Chinese American Association of the United States, Yao-Tzu Li, in January 1982. From the start, Deng was clear and elaborate that this systematic policy would apply not only to Taiwan, […]
Diplomacy
China is Building a Community With a Shared Future for Mankind: Is the West Joining?
When President Donald Trump of the United States withdrew the invitation of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to his “Board of Peace” on January 22nd 2026, in a Truth Social post, the incident continued a pattern of spiraling tensions between the two North American states that might well produce more moments of antagonism in the near […]