By Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / China NATO’s 2026 annual summit concluded in Ankara on July 7–8. Diverging from its predecessors, the summit’s final declaration did not directly target China. Beginning with the 2019 London Declaration and continuing through the 2021 Brussels, 2022 Madrid, and 2023 Vilnius summits, NATO had consistently targeted China, defining it as the alliance’s foremost “systemic ...
On both sides’ perspective on each other By Orçun Göktürk, from Beijing / China NATO will hold its annual summit in Ankara next month. Founded during the Cold War era to counter the Soviet Bloc, the organization aimed to fight communism externally and to control European countries internally by the USA. Despite the dissolution of the Soviet Union (even though ...
By Shirley Ze Yu If the conflict in Gaza were to spiral to a regional scale, almost certainly, the US would directly intervene, and possibly, China would, too. However, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza also share one aspect in common. Both wars are reflective of global geopolitical competition, with the attempt to re-configure the “century of change.” What has ...