Online Talk

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is scheduled to make a short, in-person trip to the PRC in early February - the highest-ranking US government officer to visit Beijing since the start of the global Covid pandemic. Blinken will be building on a slight rapprochman brokered on the sidelines of the G20 meeting last November […]

After the Chinese government in December dropped all Covid-restrictions the virus spread like wildfire – faster than many experts had predicted. Up to one billion people might have been infected already. Close to one million people might have died from or with Covid. But these are only rough estimates as the government doesn’t release ana […]

China conducted a long series of live-fire military drills after former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan last year. With the current US House Speaker potentially planning another trip to Taiwan this spring, Dr. Ling examines the Chinese PLA’s current capabilities. How could the PLA project that strength across the Taiwan Strait? How […]