*Dr Alaa Aldeek is a Researcher at the Institute of Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy, Shanghai International Studies University As these lines are drawn the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China sits in its fourth plenary session (20-23 October 2025). Beijing’s brand of diplomacy has made extensive…
Read MoreCo-Authors: Dr. Morris Mottale & Dr. Yiorghos Leventis At the end of the Cold War, in Washington and Western Europe there was a consensus that a new world order was coming around. Overlooked was the fact that an Islamic revolution in Iran led by an octogenarian…
Read MoreBy Dr Alaa Aldeek, Our Shangai-Based Expert Preface There has been an effectiveness of Chinese diplomacy towards resolving the Palestinian issue in all occasions and forums since the Bandung Conference in 1955, when China affirmed its rejection of foreign occupation and its support for national liberation movements aimed at self-determination.…
Read MoreTheoretical Basis of the Geopolitical Thought & Practice of the Western World In the Rimland Theory, the renowned American political scientist Nickolas Spykman introduces the Inner Crescent Theory. The theory’s introduction forms the basis of America’s geopolitical thought and in extension the practice of the Western World. The Inner Crescent…
Read MoreOctober 16th 2020 marked the 56th anniversary of China’s first nuclear test. This was a milestone in China’s rapid path into becoming the fifth nuclear weapon state (NWS). Unfortunately, following her, more countries would soon the list of NWS. The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) formed in 1996, with the…
Read MoreAs the Trump administration came into power after 2016, the United States found itself increasingly in conflict with Beijing on a variety of issues in the international system, ranging from trade, security in the Eastern-Pacific, intellectual property theft and economic competition. A confrontation that became even more pronounced as China…
Read MoreThe main trends in the development of telecommunication technologies determine the continuous increase in the dependence of modern society on transnational network resources. The global information space consists of personalities as well as resources of civilian and military infrastructure. At the same time, today there is practically no legal regulation…
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