Australian politicians are being urged to play a more active role in preventing conflict between the world’s two main superpowers.
The government is making an each-way bet when it comes to dealing with the energy transition – and that’s a big problem.
After a half-century of diplomatic sparring,the two nations are now openly rivals,seeking dominance in diplomatic clout,economic heft,military might,technology mastery and even climate change reform.
Can these two great rivals quarantine climate change from their broader competition for supremacy? There are mixed messages from both superpowers.
China has long held ambitions to dominate the technologies that will shape the 21st century. It was only when it announced them that the US finally responded.
If China chose to attack Taiwan,the US could be powerless to stop it. But if China wanted to conquer Taiwan,that’s a different story.
Today on Please Explain,North America correspondent Matt Knott and North Asia correspondent Eryk Bagshaw join Nathanael Cooper to look at the superpowers’ struggle for world domination
Even though the first known COVID-19 outbreak originated in Wuhan,China has leveraged the pandemic to bolster its global reputation.
Biden says the US is in a competition with China to win the 21st century - but Beijing is on track to beat them.
Trump shunned the world. China angered it. Now Beijing and Washington are in a race to gain the greatest diplomatic clout.
The two nations are right now locked in open rivalry for world domination - but for many years,they tried to be allies.