Commentary

  • Wang Huiyao: It’s Time to Offer Russia an Offramp. China Can Help With That.

    By Wang Huiyao | Dr. Wang is the founder and president of the Center for China and Globalization(CCG), a non-governmental think tank based in Beijing.   Casualties are mounting in Ukraine. Bombs continue to fall. More than 2 million refugees have fled the fighting. Vladimir Putin seems to...
    The New York Times  |  March 13 , 2022
  • Wang Huiyao: Alarm over a ‘China-Russia axis’ revives unwanted Cold War mentality

    ■ Talk of a Sino-Russia-US ‘strategic triangle’ forces an outdated framework onto a changing, multipolar world and increases the risk of a great-power conflict. ■ Such rhetoric is made more dangerous given that the real struggle of the 21st century – climate change – must be fought collectively,...
    SCMP  |  March 02 , 2022
  • Wang Huiyao: How Biden Could Improve U.S.-China Relations

        By Wang Huiyao | Founder of the Center for China and Globalization(CCG) While no one should expect a dramatic turnaround, the two countries have a chance to put a floor under the world’s most important bilateral relationship. After four years of erratic “America First” uni...
    Bloomberg  |  November 12 , 2020
  • Wang Huiyao: No country is an island in the climate crisis

    Op-ed of Financial Times   By Wang Huiyao | Founder of the Center for China and Globalization(CCG)   A record-breaking temperature of 38C was registered in the Arctic town of Verkhoyansk on June 20. Photo: © ECMWF Copernicus Climate Change Service/AP   Birth of the UN shows drama...
    Financial Times  |  October 15 , 2020
  • Wang Huiyao: EU deal is a milestone for China’s globalisation

    ■ Apart from promising European firms greater market access, the investment agreement promotes cooperation on the environment and will force China to reform parts of its economy that are not in line with international practices European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and European Coun...
    SCMP  |  January 07 , 2021
  • Wang Huiyao: A Mediating Power

      Germany’s profile has risen immeasurably in the three decades since unification, becoming the EU’s driving force and an economic and technological Germany’s profile has risen immeasurably in the three decades since unification, becoming the EU’s driving force and an economic and tec...
    Munich Security Conference  |  October 07 , 2020
  • Wang Huiyao: Why Cold War Is the Wrong Analogy for Our Planet

    By Wang Huiyao | President of the Center for China and Globalization(CCG)   Great power competition has cast a shadow over our global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The outbreak should have been a chance for China and the United States to work together for a common cause. Instead, the ...
    Wilson Center  |  September 30 , 2020
  • Wang Huiyao: U.S. and China Should Seek a Truce in Tech Cold War

    By Wang Huiyao | President of the Center for China and Globalization(CCG) It would be easy to dismiss the Trump administration’s campaign against Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat as part of an election strategy to attack China from all angles. The moves, however, as well as China’s counter-respons...
    Bloomberg  |  September 02 , 2020