Regional Resilience and China’s Participation in Global Governance
Chen Zhirui & Shan Xiulei
Amid intensifying great-power rivalry and global challenges, governance faces multiple crises. Revitalization requires global consensus, cooperation, and strengthened regional resilience as a foundation of governance. As an endogenous driving force, regional resilience offers a lens to reassess current models and adapt to transformations. Enhancing it can support multi-level cooperation and advance more localized, diversified approaches to global governance.
The Global Trust Deficit and China’s Rebuilding Proposal
Sun Jisheng
Trust is the foundation of stable international relations, effective cooperation, and joint responses to global challenges. Yet intensifying great-power rivalry, weak economic growth, and rising uncertainties have deepened the global “trust deficit.” As a responsible major country, China has contributed ideas and solutions to strengthen solidarity and confidence. Looking ahead, it seeks to promote mutual trust, cooperation, and guide the world toward a future of peace, security, development, and progress.
Advancing the Vision of a Community with a Shared Future in the South China Sea: Current Foundation and Future Pathways
Zhang Jie
The South China Sea provides a concrete arena for advancing the community of shared future concept, particularly a maritime and neighborhood community of shared future. Rooted in historical and cultural ties between China and Southeast Asian states and supported by shared regional practices, this approach highlights the feasibility of simultaneously safeguarding stability in the South China Sea and fostering broader regional cooperation.
Building a Community with a Shared Future for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Connotation, Progress, and Improvement Roadmaps
Chen Xiaoding & Liu Shurong
Since proposing a China–SCO community of shared future, China has elaborated its core principles and advanced cooperation in values, security, interests, and mutual understanding. Yet increasing global polarization complicates the SCO’s environment, while internal coordination remains challenging. As 2024–2025 chair, China should uphold the “Shanghai Spirit,” strengthen political trust, deepen pragmatic cooperation, and promote cultural exchange to expand the SCO’s community-building prospects.
The Influence of European Strategic Autonomy on US Policy Towards China
Yan Shaohua
As a “key third party” in China–US competition, Europe is shifting its strategic autonomy from passively reducing dependence to actively shaping international affairs. This autonomy lies not only in pursuing independent policies toward China but also in influencing US policy. Yet Europe’s reliance on US defense and internal political constraints poses significant challenges to the consolidation of its strategic autonomy.
From Trump 1.0 to Trump 2.0: A Perspective on the US Strategic Competition Policy Toward China
Zhu Feng & Ling Banghao
Over Trump’s first presidential term and the subsequent the Biden administration, the US policy of strategic competition with China has been systematically structured in terms of strategic planning, mobilization, and institutional support. This trend, with the technological domain as the focal point, is unlikely to change in the near term. However, the inherent structural tensions in the US attempt to advance the competition by leveraging its hegemonic position are increasingly pronounced. In his second term, Trump’s sweeping remolding of the US system is a crucial lens through which to analyze and forecast the trajectory of Trump 2.0 on US-China relations.