The Axis of Necessity | How the War in Ukraine Adds a Strategic Depth to China-Russia Alignment
Presidents Putin and Xi arrive at the military parade in Beijing to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II | Source: Kremlin.ru
Towards a Jucheization of the West? | North Korea as a Mirror of Global Fragmentation
This essay draws on Professor Frank’s six earlier publications: North Korea’s De-risking Strategy and Its Implications; North Korea’s New Unification Policy: Implications and Pitfalls; The January 2025 Session of the North Korean Parliament: An Unusual Oath and the Absence of a Russia-Effect; The New North Korea: How Geopolitical Advantages and Growing Middle Class Prosperity Challenge the Next South Korean President; Navigating Multipolar Anarchy: Strategic Options for Middle Powers in a Fragmenting World; Authoritarian Leisure: North Korea’s Wonsan-Kalma Tourism Project in Comparative Perspective.
Xi’s Nationalist Ideology and Future Trends in Chinese Foreign Policy
Kevin Rudd is the Australian Ambassador to the United States. He previously served as Australia’s 26th Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010, then as Foreign Minister from 2010 to 2012, before returning briefly as Prime Minister in 2013. This essay, published with the author’s permission, is an edited chapter from his latest book, On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World (2024).
Innovation at the Core of the Asian Century
Dominic Barton is a Canadian diplomat and business executive, having formerly served as his country’s ambassador to China, Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Co, and Chancellor of the University of Waterloo.
China’s Gravitational Centrality | The Logic of Success in a Multipolar World
Arnaud Bertrand is a geopolitical and economic commentator and entrepreneur, as well as the founder of the international businesses HouseTrip and Me & Qi.
China and the West | Crossroads of Innovation
Peter Nolan is the Emeritus Chong Hua Professor in Chinese Development, an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College at the University of Cambridge, and the Founding Director of the University’s Centre of Development Studies.
Britain and the Indo-Pacific
Naval personnel from Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Canada on the deck of a Royal Navy vessel during Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2022 | Source: © Crown copyright 2024, UK Ministry of Defence/Editorial use only