China

When it comes to the Taiwan issue today, one can’t help but picture the violent verbal skirmishes between Beijing and Washington, as well as the mutual displays of muscle around the “rebel island” (as the Chinese parlance puts it. All sorts of warships and warplanes are roaming around in the outskirts of Taiwan, and somewhere paratroopers practice disembarking from the sea...

These days, with tensions between the US and China escalating by day, it is not just the two countries that are considered the greatest threat to global peace. Some analysts believe that US-China relations are entering a period of conflict in which an established hegemon confronts an increasingly powerful adversary. According to a Gallup poll of US public opinion on foreign...

The current state of the Taiwan problem has always been a good indicator for assessing the situation, both in the Indo-Pacific region as a whole and in relations between the two leading world powers, the United States and China. Meanwhile, a number of noteworthy recent events, which in one way or another affect this problem, point...