China's Shift to Multilateralism in Building Global Partnerships
Chen Zhirui & Wu Lin
China's partnership diplomacy is increasingly focusing on the extension from bilateral to multilateral, the upgrade from multilateral diplomacy to multilateralism, and the role and function of emerging markets, developing countries and regional organizations in the world order. The shift to multilateralism in global partnership building will not only help unite the strength of developing countries, shape a more balanced North-South relationship, and promote peaceful changes in the world order, but more importantly will help China become a mature and modern power.
China's Approach to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Strategies, Progress and Prospects
Deng Hao
China has played a critical role in the SCO's growth by persistently contributing its wisdom and extending its support, and its proposal of building the SCO community with a shared future meets the need for improving regional governance and the inherent requirement for the organization's development. Standing at a new starting point in the SCO's third decade, the proposal will provide strong impetus for addressing the challenges of our times, and ensure the healthy and sustainable development of the SCO.
China's New Pattern of Opening-Up and the High-Quality Development of Belt and Road Cooperation
Sun Haiyong
Guided by the new development philosophy, the high-quality development of Belt and Road cooperation has blazed a new path for China's opening-up. By staying focused on development, facilitating mutual benefit and deepening connectivity, it is significant in building momentum for global and regional economic growth and narrowing the North-South gap. It is not only a booster for the transformative development of developing countries but also an important agenda that needs to be upheld over time to deepen global cooperation in the new era.
The US Alliance Strategy: Development, Adjustment and Dilemma
Wang Yinghui
The alliance system is an important long-term strategic asset of the United States and plays a key role in implementing the country's national strategy at various stages. The Biden administration has readjusted its alliance strategy and reintegrated the Asia-Pacific and the transatlantic alliance systems to build a US-led exclusive, connected, and cross-board alliance containing China. However, the strategy is also facing a series of challenges and constraints from within and without, which will bring uncertain prospects for the alliance system.
Economic Nationalism of the Biden Administration: Manifestations, Ideological Roots and Impacts
Liu Feitao
The Biden administration's economic and trade policy has inherited the economic nationalism from the Trump era while downplaying its populist elements, and pushed the protectionist economic nationalism to a new height. Biden attempts to preserve the US hegemony, but the implementation of related policies is set to intensify confrontation among major powers and challenge the interests underlying the US-led alliance system due to the inherent narrowness of economic nationalism, which will ultimately undermine America's hegemonic position.
US-Japan Strategic Synergy in Southeast Asia and Its Impacts
Xiang Haoyu & Bao Zhipeng
As their alliance transforms from a bilateral defensive pact to an outward-looking alliance, the collaborative expansion of the US and Japan in Southeast Asia are transitioning from ad-hoc spontaneous coordination to deliberate strategic synergy. Despite some positive outcomes, significant disparities still exist in their values and interests as well as their preferred institutional arrangements. Given ASEAN's reluctance to take sides, the impact of the US and Japan on Southeast Asia will remain constrained by the level of their investment and policy alignment.
