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Development Competition is Heating Up: China’s Global Development Initiative, the G7 Partnership for Infrastructure, and the Global Alliance on Food Security

Economic development issues are becoming increasingly geopolitical, as the form and importance of today’s agreement in Turkey on grain exports between Russia and Ukraine demonstrates. While today’s crucial agreement and the war of food security narratives between Russia and the West rightly grab the latest headlines, outside of the media spotlight development competition is also heating up between China and the West.

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Jul 19, 2022
Sarah Cliffe, Karina Gerlach
China, Europe, United States
Promoting and Defending Multilateralism

China’s Global Development Initiative is not as innocent as it sounds

CIC Director Sarah Cliffe comments that "China may have seen poor countries’ anger over the West’s failure to do more to deliver covid vaccines to them as 'an opening' for its GDI push."

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Jun 09, 2022
Richard Gowan, Sarah Cliffe
China
Promoting and Defending Multilateralism

Restoring Civic Trust in the Post-Pandemic Era

This analysis from the CIC team looks at what empirical research says about why trust matters for many different forms of political, social, and economic development—and why we should take declining trust seriously. The team also takes a look at what we know about the determinants of trust, in particular corruption, inequality, and history. Lastly, this analysis discsusses the different policy options to restore and nurture trust.

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May 05, 2021
Sarah Cliffe, Paul Von Chamier
China, United States
Global Governance, International Security
Promoting and Defending Multilateralism

The Just Transition in Energy

With each new year of data, and each new intergovernmental report, it becomes harder to deny the scale and urgency of the energy transition required to prevent catastrophic anthropogenic climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urges countries to take action to prevent a rise in temperature by more than 1.5°C, and warns of catastrophic consequences of a rise above 2°C. Yet current policies and pledges fall far short of hitting these targets.

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Dec 18, 2020
Ian Goldin
China, East Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, United States, South Asia, India, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, West Africa
Crises, International Security
Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

There Is Only One Way Out of Afghanistan

For Foreign Affairs, CIC senior fellow Barnett Rubin writes that the only way out of Afghanistan requires cooperation with regional powers.

Read the full column in Foreign Affairs here. 

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Dec 09, 2020
Barnett Rubin
China, Central Asia, East Asia, Middle East, United States, South Asia, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan
Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project
Afghanistan

Biden Is Now a China Hawk—With Limits

In the third Foreign Policy column of his series about a possible Biden presidency, CIC senior fellow James Traub details Biden's attitudes toward China.

"Biden has simply learned that beating up on China has become a cost-free way to prove your toughness. That wasn’t true even when he left office; his new bellicosity demonstrates how very quickly the consensus on China has shifted both in the broad public and among policymakers."

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Sep 03, 2020
China, United States
Global Governance

The Future Is Asian—but Not Chinese

In a new column for Foreign Policy, CIC senior fellow James Traub writes about the post-pandemic struggle for global prestige and economic dominance, and argues that both the U.S. and China are losing the fight.

"If some model has emerged as the winner of this dreadful sweepstakes, it is not China’s authoritarian one but rather that of the democracies that share China’s 'Asian values' of collective discipline, deference to authority, and faith in the state," Traub said.

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Apr 27, 2020
James Traub
China, United States
Emerging Powers

CIC's Barnett Rubin Addresses Arria-Formula Meeting on Afghanistan at the Security Council

CIC, Barnett Rubin, Arria-Formula, Afghanistan

At the most recent Arria-formula meeting on Afghanistan on November 27, 2017, Barnett Rubin spoke on the importance of regional approaches in fostering development and peace. In his talk, Partners for Afghanistan: Linking Security, Development and Peace in the Central Asian Region.

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Nov 28, 2017
Barnett Rubin
China, Central Asia, South Asia, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan
Afghanistan, Pakistan, South Asia
Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

China provides most number of troops for UN peacekeeping force

The People’s Liberation Army is the biggest single provider of troops for the United Nation’s peacekeeping force, known as the Blue Helmets.

CGTN’s John Terrett reports.

We seldom, if ever, see the PLA or its generals at United Nations headquarters, but we do see Ambassador Liu Jieyi and Beijing’s team of diplomats everyday in the Security Council dealing with the most serious of world issues.

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Aug 01, 2017
John Terrett, Sarah Cliffe
China
Prevention and Peacebuilding
United Nations

UN leader: US leaving Paris accord will harm its global influence

In five months in office, UN Secretary-General António Guterres, has so far publicly avoided challenging new US President Donald Trump.

But on Tuesday, he threw the equivalent of a last-minute "Hail Mary" pass during a speech at New York University -- making the case for the US to remain committed to the Paris climate accord in terms that he hoped would change Trump's mind, by warning of a drop in the US's global influence if it pulls out of the agreement.

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May 31, 2017
Richard Roth
China, United States
Prevention and Peacebuilding
Transnational Threats, United Nations

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