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EU-China summit: What really happened? (DW, 7 min read) The meeting has been postponed due to the pandemic. But this may not be the real reason, as China and the EU have started to open up their economies of late. It may be a delaying tactic ahead of the 2020 US election, since EU will have to re-calibrate relations with Beijing depending on whether Trump or Biden wins.
How Has the Coronavirus Crisis Affected Xi’s Power: A Preliminary Assessment (China Leadership Monitor, 20 min read) ‘…adverse economic and geopolitical consequences of the coronavirus pandemic have greatly complicated his ambitious agenda and made it nearly impossible for him to present a record of significant domestic and foreign policy achievements as justification for a third term at the Twentieth Party Congress in 2022.’
China’s ‘Peaceful Rise’ Vanishes in Thin Air (Project Syndicate, 8 min read) ‘Chinese troops have been establishing fixed positions in areas that even it considers to be on the Indian side of the disputed Line of Actual Control. The message is clear: China is now the region’s preponderant power, and everyone else should fall in line.’ The longer the border settlement is delayed, the more negotiating power China gets and the more likely it is to acquire the border size it wants.