Professor Zheng Yongnian, a distinguished academic, is the Presidential Chair Professor and Founding Director of The Institute for International Affairs at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. With an impressive educational background from Peking University and Princeton University, he has held prominent positions such as former Director of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore and former Research Director at the China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has declared that the BRICS cooperation mechanism has become the world’s most influential platform for cooperation among emerging markets and developing countries, positioning the grouping at the centre
by Our Correspondent in New Delhi The BRICS New Delhi Declaration is less a routine summit communiqué than a broad statement of intent about how its members believe the international system should function. Across 140 paragraphs, the expanded grouping calls
Twenty‑five years ago, the United States endured one of the darkest days in its history. On September 11, 2001, al‑Qaeda terrorists led by Osama
by Our Correspondent in Colombo A prominent Chinese economist has called for a substantially expanded economic and commercial relationship between China and Sri Lanka,
It is widely known that in the mid-20th century, renowned British sociologist T.H. Marshall delivered a lecture entitled “citizenship and social class” at Cambridge University in 1949, which resulted in a significant
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