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...Tong Zhao, an academic, worries that China’s leader is “boxing himself in” over Taiwan....
...“China is now ready to gradually erode American leadership and promote Chinese governance,” said Zhao Tong, a senior fellow at the Carnegie think-tank and a visiting scholar at Princeton University....
...“The Chinese leadership has convinced itself that the west won’t voluntarily accept China’s rise unless China demonstrates formidable power,” said Zhao Tong of Tsinghua University in Beijing....
...There are a lot of different points of view on this, the debate is extremely diverse,” said Zhao Tong of Tsinghua University in Beijing. The fiercest arguments are raging about basic beliefs....
...There are a lot of different points of view on this, the debate is extremely diverse,” said Zhao Tong, senior fellow at Carnegie Tsinghua Center in Beijing....
...“Some Chinese nuclear experts have previously argued that the US was still thinking about nuclear war with China, and this statement helps mitigate that concern to some extent,” says Zhao Tong, a professor...
...“Technical level considerations have motivated the modernisation of China’s nuclear forces in recent years, but this is bigger,” Zhao Tong, a nuclear policy expert at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Centre for Global...
...“That the US is determined to contain China is an ever-greater consensus in China,” said Zhao Tong, an expert on the Korean peninsula at Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, a think-tank....
...“The mindset now is more to coerce counterparts to respect China’s interests as co-operative security is seen as less and less effective,” said Zhao Tong, a senior fellow at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center...
...With the diplomatic process losing steam, China no longer prioritises the issue, said Zhao Tong, an analyst at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center in Beijing....
...Zhao Tong, an expert on the Korean peninsula at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center in Beijing, said the issue of US-led international sanctions against North Korea would become a central issue in the negotiations...
...Mr Kim will probably use the trip to keep Beijing informed of any plans for future meetings with South Korea “or other significant moves on promoting peace on the peninsula”, said Zhao Tong, a Beijing-based...
...Bao Pu is a Hong Kong-based publisher and the son of Bao Tong, the former political secretary to Zhao Ziyang, who at the age of 86 remains under 24-hour surveillance at his home in Beijing because of his...
...“The strategic competition between US and China has become more and more intense and it has also become the geopolitical issue that concerns China the most,” said Zhao Tong, of the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center...
...Tong of the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, a think-tank in Beijing....
...“China wants to be included in this process as soon as possible,” said Zhao Tong, an expert on the Korean peninsula at the Tsinghua Carnegie Centre in Beijing....
...Zhao Tong, an expert on the Korean peninsula at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center in Beijing, noted that following the Dalian summit, China issued a statement saying it “supports North Korea’s pursuit of its...
...In China, some are disappointed that Beijing was not chosen as it would have offered Mr Xi means to exert more influence over the Kim regime, according to Zhao Tong at Tsinghua Carnegie Centre in Beijing...
...Zhao Tong, an expert on the Korean peninsula at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center in Beijing, said: “One likely possibility is that this meeting is part of an insurance policy in case talks with the US fail.”...
...The public views of China experts such as Mr Zheng often mirror the private views of policymakers, and they are concerned, said Zhao Tong, a specialist on the Korean Peninsula at the Tsinghua Carnegie Centre...
...However, Zhao Tong, an expert on the Korean peninsula at the Tsinghua Carnegie Centre in Beijing, said the tensions were also part of a broader problem: the October agreement to relax boycotts against South...
..."I believe the US wants to avoid discussing any proposal short of demanding North Korea’s clear commitment to complete de-nuclearisation — including the Chinese dual suspension proposal,” said Tong Zhao...
...Zhao Tong, an expert on security affairs on the Korean peninsula at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center in Beijing, said these minor details were important for two countries where protocol was so carefully choreographed...
...Zhao Tong, a regional expert at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center in Beijing, said the Chinese government’s objective was to block the most extreme measures advocated by US President Donald Trump while also communicating...
...“There is nothing surprising or extraordinary about the [ministry of commerce] order, which is completely in line with the text of the UN Security Council resolution,” said Zhao Tong, an expert on North...
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