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Interview: China can help UN peacekeeping strategically

China can help UN peacekeeping respond strategically to conflicts, through both practical and political solutions.

Publication Date: Oct 13, 2015

Region/Country: China

Program(s): Prevention and Peacebuilding

Topic(s): United Nations

Great power dance at the United Nations

Time was when the annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) jamboree in New York was an entertaining but worthless talkfest used by leaders such as Hugo Chavez, Muammar Gaddafi and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad—desperate for their 15 minutes of international fame—to deliver sonorous, rambling grandiose or boorish speeches. More recently, however, the UNGA meeting and related special sessions around it have made the occasion a smidgen more relevant. Coupled with the re-engagement of existing and emerging powers with the proceedings, the UNGA is becoming an important venue for a great power dance.

Publication Date: Oct 12, 2015

Author(s) / Contributor(s): WPS Sidhu

Region/Country: China, South Asia, India

The New Silk Roads

On February 15, 1989, when General Boris Gromov followed the last Soviet troops out of Afghanistan over the Friendship Bridge to Uzbekistan, the Pudong district east of the Huangpu river in Shanghai was undeveloped farmland. Once the Soviet troops left, China − which had cooperated with the U.S., Pakistan and Saudi Arabia in supplying arms to the anti-Soviet resistance − turned inward to focus on development. As part of that effort, in 1990 Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping declared “Shanghai is our trump card,” ordering the development of Pudong.

Publication Date: Oct 07, 2015

Author(s): Barnett Rubin, Thomas Zimmerman

Region/Country: China, East Asia, South Asia

Topic(s): India, Pakistan, South Asia

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

China and the United States on the Afghanistan-Pakistan Region

Since 2009, the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University has supported the development of regional approaches to Afghanistan by co-convening a series of structured dialogues among regional stakeholders. Since the initial meeting in June 2009 in Dubai, CIC has co-convened seven meetings including Istanbul (January 2010), Dubai (December 2010, April 2011), Oslo (June 2011), Dubai (September 2011), Oslo (September 2011), and Abu Dhabi (January 2013).

Publication Date: Feb 03, 2014

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Center on International Cooperation

Region/Country: China, South Asia, Pakistan

Topic(s): Afghanistan, South Asia

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Taliban and Afghan Peace Officials Have Secret Talks in China

Afghan government representatives said at the meeting that it was ready to make an effort to build trust, if the Taliban agreed to peace negotiations.

Read the full New York Times article Taliban and Afghan Peace Officials Have Secret Talks in China

Publication Date: May 25, 2015

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Barnett Rubin

Region/Country: China, South Asia, Afghanistan

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Can China Help Rebuild Afghanistan?

CIC Associate Director Barnett Rubin and Transatlantic Fellow with the German Marshall Fund Andrew Small assess Beijing’s role in improving the historically tense relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Publication Date: Mar 09, 2015

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Barnett Rubin

Region/Country: China, Central Asia, South Asia, Afghanistan

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Topic(s): Afghanistan

China’s Role in Afghanistan

CIC Associate Director, Barnett Rubin, recently shared his thoughts with The New York Times on China’s growing engagement with Afghan politics.

Publication Date: Feb 20, 2015

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Barnett Rubin

Region/Country: China, South Asia, Afghanistan

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Topic(s): Afghanistan, Fragile States

Big-Power ‘Buffering’ Mechanisms Needed to Manage Era of Disorder

There were signs of easing tensions in some parts of the international system last week, but warnings of deepening crises on other fronts.

Read the full World Politics Review article Big-Power ‘Buffering’ Mechanisms Needed to Manage Era of Disorder

Publication Date: Nov 12, 2014

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Richard Gowan

Region/Country: China, East Asia, Europe, Middle East, United States

Program(s): Prevention and Peacebuilding

Topic(s): Crises, Transnational Threats, United Nations

Keeping peace in the Sahara

One hundred and seventy soldiers, 50 degree heat, 10 months away from home and 700 individual missions to complete. This all adds up to one of the toughest deployments in recent Chinese military history, undertaken by the first batch of People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers sent on a UN peacekeeping operation in the war-torn West African country of Mali.

Read the full Global Times article Keeping peace in the Sahara

Publication Date: Nov 12, 2014

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Richard Gowan

Region/Country: China, West Africa

Program(s): Prevention and Peacebuilding

Topic(s): United Nations

African Security – a bright spot for Sino-European cooperation

There are reasons to think that Africa may be a place where prospects of Sino-European cooperation are promising. EU members – and above all France – continue to play an active role in crisis management in weak African states like Mali, Somalia, and the Central African Republic.

Read the Full ECFR article African Security – a bright spot for Sino-European cooperation

Publication Date: Nov 04, 2014

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Richard Gowan

Region/Country: China, Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, West Africa

Program(s): Prevention and Peacebuilding

Topic(s): United Nations