Hao Nan

THE WRITER IS A RESEARCH FELLOW WITH THE CHARHAR INSTITUTE

View of the Forbidden City in Beijing. Both the G7 and China care about resilience, development, multilateralism and stability.

G7 and China are competing to define global governance

2026-06-30T04:16:42.000Z
Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The countries have upgraded their 2007 Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation Treaty into a permanent framework.

China’s Tajikistan treaty shows Central Asia’s new investment geography

2026-05-24T23:00:00.000Z
Turkmenistan offers China something rarer than another gas field: a discreet land access to Iran.

China’s Eurasian hedge runs through Turkmenistan

2026-04-23T22:45:00.000Z
The central question is whether Iran can make the economic price of continuing the war too high, too global and too prolonged to ignore.

Iran’s real weapon is the world economy

2026-03-30T23:00:00.000Z
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Feb 25. Instead of the West versus China, the real story concerns how middle powers are widening their economic options under Trump-era volatility while keeping their security anchoring intact.

Hedging or realigning: mapping the West’s China policy since Trump 2.0

2026-03-02T04:07:17.000Z