September 2025 Digest
China & The West | US Politics (Charlie Kirk) | Artificial Intelligence | Military Parade | Middle East | India | South China Sea | Russia | Resource and Energy Security | China's Economy| Sinification
China & The West | US Politics (Charlie Kirk) | Artificial Intelligence | Military Parade | Middle East | India | South China Sea | Russia | Resource and Energy Security | China's Economy| Sinification
"My guess is that in the end it will come down to a licensing system. You want to import? Fine, we’ll give you a licence—but we’ll be watching you." - Yao Yang| Sinification
"I believe one reason scholars are so often looked down upon today is that many have lost their independence — they spend their time acting as cheerleaders for the government." — Yao Yang| Sinification
"So, my prediction: when will this period of correction end? In 2037." - Yao Yang| Sinification
"In the context of US-China rivalry, innovative resilience may matter more than the capacity for breakthrough innovations".| www.sinification.com
Insights from: 1. Li Yang; 2. Mu Changchun; 3. Peng Wensheng; 4. Liu Xiaochun; 5. Wang Yongli; 6. Zhou Xiaochuan; 7. Zhu Guangyao; 8. Fan Wenzhong; 9. Frank M. Song; 10. Huang Yiping| Sinification
India-China | World Order | US-China | Europe & Russia | Economy | AI| www.sinification.com
"The US has left a vacuum for the world, but no country can and no country wants to fill that vacuum." — Da Wei| Sinification
"To many observers of international affairs, India has already become an internal cancer [内部毒瘤] threatening the healthy development of the SCO."| Sinification
"[One could also say] ‘there hasn't been a long-lived individual who has never fallen ill.’ But could we seriously infer from this that illness is the cause of longevity?" — Zhang Weiying| Sinification
"I have still not seen an example of a developing country that did not employ industrial policy and yet caught up with developed countries." - Lin Yifu| www.sinification.com
"Bad news for the West is always good news for China. Whatever the West supports, we oppose; and whatever the West opposes, we support."| www.sinification.com
"The Trump administration’s intervention [at Harvard University] is not about destroying freedom but about putting an end to bullying." — Zhao Xiao (赵晓)| Sinification
"It is better to endure the inevitable short-term pain of reunification than to subject national rejuvenation to the endless torment of delay and the uncertainty of an indefinite future."| Sinification
"So how should the Mainland respond? It comes down to three characters—the first is “expose” [破]. What does this “exposing” entail? It means exposing Taiwan’s democracy as fake democracy."| Sinification
"What is needed now is the right opportunity—if the United States produces such an opportune moment, the overall dynamics could shift fundamentally."| www.sinification.com
"As the United States increases obstacles to trade and to the sharing and export of technology … A strategic window of opportunity has opened for Chinese AI to ‘go global’."| Sinification
"Financial sanctions and countermeasures will probably become one of the key battlegrounds in the next phase of strategic competition between China and the United States."| www.sinification.com
"French President Emmanuel Macron has repeatedly criticised NATO for being 'brain-dead', but it is not only NATO that suffers from this condition—the entire West is in this state." – Zheng Yongnian| Sinification
“An industrial power has never lost when challenged by a financial power — even when that financial power happened to be the reigning global hegemon.”| www.sinification.com
"The competition between China and the US over the global market for large [AI] models is essentially a contest for dominance over global political ideology." – Di Dongsheng (翟东升)| www.sinification.com
"It is likely to take another 5 to 10 years to achieve full reunification, as we are still in a phase of quantitative change, rather than having reached a qualitative shift."| www.sinification.com
"In short, all available avenues should be used to promote de-dollarisation in commodity trade among Global South countries."| www.sinification.com
"China’s rapid expansion in the traditional chip sector has been a 'game-changer' since the outbreak of the tech war. If this expansion trend continues, China will gain strategic autonomy" – He Pengyu| www.sinification.com
Exclusive Interview with Up-and-Coming NDRC Analyst Mao Keji (毛克疾)| www.sinification.com
