Tag: Belt and Road Initiative
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US–China Trade Tensions and Indonesia’s Strategy under Prabowo Subianto
The escalating trade tensions between the United States and China are reshaping global politics and economics. For Indonesia under President Prabowo Subianto, this rivalry presents both risks and opportunities. This article explores how Prabowo’s sovereignty-driven vision seeks to balance economic growth, military strength, and diplomatic independence in the face of a new Cold War dynamic…
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China’s Debt Dilemma and Its Global Consequences
Introduction The rise of China has been one of the defining stories of the 21st century. After a relatively closed economy in the late 1970s, China has emerged as the world’s second-largest economy and a formidable global actor. Many have hailed its growth model—driven by manufacturing, exports, and increasingly by digital innovation—as a miracle. Yet…
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Has China Won? Kishore Mahbubani on America’s Strategic Dilemma in the 21st Century
Kishore Mahbubani’s Has China Won? opens with a bold provocation: can America truly lose to China? Drawing lessons from history, Mahbubani argues that the United States risks misreading China by framing it as merely a communist adversary, rather than a civilization-state playing the long game of wei qi. With American soft power in decline and…