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For a very long time, most Western states – and financial institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) – have framed China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a massive “debt trap” that China is using to establish its geopolitical tentacles across the world. For Washington, China’s spread threatened its own unilateral hegemony that it…

Yoshimasa Hayashi, the foreign minister of Japan, paid a visit to China on April 1-2 of this year, and everything that went along with it ended up being rather indicative of the complex and contentious processes going on throughout the Indo-Pacific area as a whole, since during this visit, the complicated relationship between two of the many important participants…

Following the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the parliamentary “Two Sessions,” the Chinese leadership’s involvement in the area of foreign policy has increased in recent weeks. The global optimism of such action stands in stark contrast to the increasingly paranoid and aggressive rhetoric…