China’s Strategy in Global Power Transitions: Challenges in a Turbulent World — A panel discussion

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Kaiser Kuo

Culture, China News, Hangzhou, Chinese, International Relations, Chongqing, Beijing, Sichuan, Currentaffairs, China, Politics, Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, China Economy, News, China Politics, Business, Film, Shenzhen

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This week on Sinica: February 24 marks the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and as I’ve done for the last two years, I moderated a panel organized by Vita Golod, a Ukrainian China scholar who happens to be here in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at UNC as a visiting scholar. She’s worked tirelessly to promote awareness of the war, and I’m honored again to have been asked to moderate this panel.

The guests you'll hear from are:

Dr. Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Director of the China Studies Centre at Riga Stradins University in Latvia. Fluent in Chinese, Russian, and English, she has collaborated with scholars like Kerry Brown of King’s College London and has done extensive work on China's role in Europe and beyond.

Dr. Dmytro Yefremov, Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at the National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" in Ukraine. A board member of the Ukrainian Association of Sinologists, he specializes in China's foreign relations and has traveled extensively to China, providing firsthand insight into Ukraine's perspective on China's role in the war and beyond.

Dr. Qiang Liu, Director of the Energy Economics Division at the Institute of Quantitative & Technical Economics within the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). He also serves as the Co-chair and Secretary-General of the Global Forum on Energy Security. His research focuses on energy security, energy economics, and policy, with a particular emphasis on China's Belt and Road Initiative and its global energy partnerships.

Dr. Klaus Larres, Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professor of History and International Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. An expert on transatlantic relations, U.S., German, and EU foreign policy, and China's role in the post-Cold War order, he has a profound interest in the history of the Cold War and the politics of Winston Churchill.

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0:00.0	Hey, cynical listeners.
0:10.2	February 24th marks the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and as I've
0:17.7	done for the last two years, I moderated a panel organized by Vita Holod, a Ukrainian China scholar who happens to be here in North Carolina at UNC Chapel Hill as a visiting scholar.
0:31.3	Vita has worked tirelessly to promote awareness of the war, and I am honored again to have been asked to moderate this panel.
0:38.8	I will introduce the guests in the actual program, which I'm presenting to you unedited
0:42.9	and only cleaned up for better sound quality. Please enjoy.
0:47.3	Good morning. Good afternoon and good evening, depending on where you are, joining us from.
0:52.3	Welcome to today's panel discussion. China's
0:54.5	strategy in global power transitions challenges in a turbulent world. My name is Kaiser Guo. I am the host of
1:01.4	the Cynica podcast. We are convening just days before the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale
1:08.1	invasion of Ukraine, marking the beginning of its fourth year.
1:13.0	This conflict has profoundly reshaped with global order. It's exposed new vulnerabilities.
1:17.7	It's redrawn old alliances, and it's compelled major powers to reassess their strategic
1:23.2	priorities. Today, our focus is going to be on how China fits into this transformed world.
1:30.0	But even to get to that topic, we do need to talk quite a bit about the bewildering developments
1:35.1	of just recent days. As we speak today on the 20th of February, it's just in the aftermath
1:42.8	of the news first earlier this month of Donald Trump's phone call with Vladimir Putin, followed just over the weekend by highly controversial remarks made by U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance at the Munich Security Conference, which prompted some blistering responses, not the least of which came from the Fed Secretary,
2:05.8	Pistorius.
2:07.7	And then just this week, the Menei and Riyadh between Russian Foreign Minister Lov and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio,
2:15.5	all these things are changing the scenario very, very quickly.
2:20.1	Discussions about potential settlements, some terming it a grand bargain, other speaking of
2:25.4	outright betrayal, now really dominate international discourse. The Binded Administration's
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