"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
"I had not expected that some of my peers—who have, supposedly, studied law—would actually hold views that by the standards of modern civilisation could be described as legally illiterate."| Sinification
"I have always been convinced of this: when China launches a military operation to bring about reunification, the United States will not send troops."| Sinification
"I believe that from [Lai's] seventeen points, it should be clear to us that the reunification of the motherland cannot be endlessly delayed. Decisive action must be taken."| 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)| Sinification
"When the world’s most powerful country abandons its principles and loses any sense of morality, it becomes exceedingly dangerous and may inflict great harm upon the world."| Sinification
"When it comes to international affairs, I have so far seen no evidence that Trump is following any kind of plan, or indeed that he actually has one."| www.sinification.com
A close reading of elite Chinese commentary on Trump, Trade and the World| Sinification
"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
"China has accumulated more tools for counteraction and is increasingly resolute in its determination to resist US bullying."| www.sinification.com
Commentaries by Zhang Ming, Xu Qiyuan, Lian Ping, Liu Dian and Gu Wenjun| www.sinification.com