The power struggle between the United States and China in the Asia-Pacific region is commonly explained in International Relations through Harvard professor Graham Allison's Thucydides Trap concept.
While Taiwan does maintain close, albeit unofficial relations with powerful allies such as Japan and the United States, the list of states which officially recognize Taiwan is diminutive, shrinking from 30 in the 1990s to just 17 today.
Under conventional thinking, one of the most remarkable aspects of China is its high level of homogeneity in spite of its vast territory and population. Out of China’s nearly 1.4 billion citizens, over...
Straddled by the Gobi Desert to the east and the mountains of Kyrgyzstan to the south, the Kazakh city of Khorgos is located in one of the most inaccessible regions on the Eurasian continent. Despite this fact, its proximity to Xinjiang province, which is China’s westernmost province, has made this otherwise geographically isolated city a point of both intense optimism and contention for the respective Kazakh and Chinese governments.
Chinese investment and involvement in Africa has been a subject of great concern for Western nations, especially the United States, for most of the 21st century. While the fear of socialism spreading to...
Let's be honest — our relationship with North Korea has never, ever been good and we are unfortunately at fault for some of that.
Now, don't get me wrong, North Korea is an abusive totalitarian state...
With the rising tension in the Korean Peninsula in recent months, many have wondered if North Korea could actually hit the United States with a nuclear warhead. This question remains unanswered, but recent...
