November Digest | Part 2 — International Relations

US-China | Europe | Japan | Africa | Russia

Today’s post concludes our round-up of noteworthy analyses and commentaries from November. Part 1 is available here.

1. US-China:

   1. Huang Jing on what would be traded in a theoretical Sino-US “Grand Bargain”.

   2. Ronnie Chan on the end of global capital expansion and China’s resilience in a world of systemic tightening.

   3. Jin Canrong on the motivations for US intervention in Venezuela and the (non-)implications for its Indo-Pacific strategy.

2. Europe:

   1. Wang Wanying, Li Zhengdong & Ma Xiaolin on the threat posed by the EU’s enlargement policy to China’s Central and Eastern Europe strategy.

   2. Li Xing on European reliance on US security structures and the politically useful myth of strategic autonomy.

   3. Wang Wanying & Ma Xiaolin on the EU’s shift from rights-based idealism to camp-based alignment with the US in its new digital policy.

   4. Ding Chun: (i) on the continued attraction of China’s market and industrial ecosystem for European industrialists; and (ii) on why EU disengagement with China on trade could deepen i…