David Cavendish
LATEST ARTICLES BY David Cavendish
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Opinion
The pillars of the post-World War II world are crumbling
January 15, 2025There is no lack of calls for reform of the major pillars that underpin U.S. dominance in the economic, political, and military fields.
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Opinion
China’s ‘Five Principles of Peaceful Co-Existence’ are needed today more than ever
August 2, 202470 years ago, China outlined a foreign policy model that is relevant to the whole world today.
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Opinion
Transitioning to a new world
May 13, 2024A new world is being born, and China is its lynchpin.
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News
A tale of two speeches
March 11, 2024In Beijing, Premier Li Qiang talked about a multipolar world and shared benefits. In Washington, President Biden laid out a vision of unavoidable confrontation.
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Environment
Top polluter or renewables leader? Facts about China’s environmental record
February 13, 2024Numbers are often twisted to tell a certain story about China’s role in the climate crisis.
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Opinion
Same as it ever was: At 200, Monroe Doctrine still about neo-colonial control
October 24, 2023Contributor David Cavendish looks back on a 200-year-old piece of U.S. foreign policy—and his own 25-year-old article.
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Opinion
U.S. agrees Taiwan is part of China; it’s time to act like it
August 23, 2023Ever since the Nixon-Kissinger visits of 1972, Washington has officially acknowledged there is only one China, but offensive weapons sales to Taiwan continue unabated.
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Opinion
‘Whole Process People’s Democracy’ in China: What does it mean?
May 9, 2023When thinking about what working-class democracy might look like in the U.S., China provides plenty of ideas to study.
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