Global Digital Governance: Progress, Dilemmas and China's Role
Qi Kai & Zhou Zhihan
Global digital governance has become a frontier issue and a critical task in global governance. The international community has progressed in digital infrastructure, digital economic framework, digital taxation reform, and regional digital cooperation. However, global digital governance still faces many challenges. China is committed to realizing good governance to shape a new digital development paradigm that is fair, reasonable, open, inclusive, secure, stable and dynamic.
India's Perception and Policy Preference of Global Economic Governance
Yang Wenwu & Li Siqi
India's policy orientation on global economic governance is fundamentally driven by its economic self-interests. Believing that the current Western-dominated governance system is marred by rigid mechanisms and mired in dysfunction, the Modi government has been more reluctant to defer to Western ideas and goals. Despite existing constraints, India's efforts to push the system in a direction more conducive to its national interests will make it a potentially influential player in the future architecture of global economic governance.
Digital Globalization and China-US Strategic Competition
Wang Dong & Gao Dan
While facilitating the high-quality development of countries worldwide, digital globalization has also aggravated international competition in the digital space, and, in the case of intensifying frictions between China and the US, expanded the boundary of their strategic competition, which is centered around the three aspects of digital elements, digital ideas, and digital governance. The bilateral digital competition is expected to catalyze a mindset that will have profound implications for building a more secure, inclusive and sustainable digital governance architecture globally and regionally.
Analyzing the Supply Chain Resilience Strategy of the Biden Administration
Li Wei & Wang Li
In response to the supply chain crisis caused by intensifying great-power rivalry and the raging Covid-19 pandemic, the Biden administration has made efforts on both domestic and foreign fronts to comprehensively enhance America's supply chain resilience, in a bid to accelerate global industrial restructuring, reduce reliance on China, weaken China's pivotal position in global industrial and supply chains, and restore America's competitive advantage in critical industries. China should make full use of its advantages over infrastructure, talent, market size and industrial clusters to offset possible negative effects.
Motivations and Prospects of Japan's Enhanced Security Cooperation with Europe
Sun Wenzhu
Under the multiple shocks brought by Trump's election, Brexit and the intense China-US competition, Japan's security cooperation with the EU and NATO has expanded into the economic field. It intends to achieve strategic transformation and share the development benefits in the Indo-Pacific region. However, the absence of common security goals and perceptions of threats, coupled with their internal economic and political pressures as well as strategic constraints from the US, will limit the upgrade of Japan-Europe security cooperation into a military alliance.
The Biden Administration's Economic Policy toward China: Readjustment and New Areas of Competition
Song Guoyou
Since taking office, the Biden administration has basically continued the Trump administration's economic policy toward China. However, it has actively adjusted the approaches to addressing the Chinese economic challenge in a bid to guarantee America's advantageous position. As the strategic competition between the two countries intensifies, new areas of economic competition have emerged over the issues of supply chain resilience, economic alliance, regional economic institutions, and economic sanctions.
Lancang-Mekong Cooperation: New Forms of Innovation in the Sub-Regional Order
Zhai Kun & Zhang Tian
The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation initiated by China and jointly promoted by the six Lancang-Mekong countries has gradually developed into a model for building a community with a shared future at the sub-regional level. Particularly in water resources cooperation, governance narratives and practices characteristic of the sub-region are taking shape. New forms of innovation for Lancang-Mekong water resources cooperation will help break through narrow notions of competition and build a sense of community among Lancang-Mekong countries.