Wenran Jiang
Wenran Jiang, founding director of the China Institute and Mactaggart Research Chair Emeritus at the University of Alberta, is president of the Canada-China Energy & Environment Forum and an advisor at the Institute of Peace and Diplomacy.
Wenran's articles (5 total)
Trump-Xi summit exposes Tokyo’s vulnerability
Trump invoked Pearl Harbor with Japan, then celebrated America’s wartime alliance with China days later. The sequence exposes uncomfortable questions about Tokyo’s reliance on Washington, and Australia’s own assumptions about US security guarantees.
BRICS builds alternatives as Washington turns up the pressure
BRICS emerged from New Delhi with plans to deepen financial and technological cooperation, as US tariffs and sanctions push the expanded bloc towards practical alternatives to Western-dominated systems.
Trump destabilising East Asia’s security order
Trump’s transactional approach to US alliances is pushing South Korea and Japan towards greater strategic autonomy, as China seeks to shape an increasingly uncertain East Asian security order.
China waits and watches as the US fights all its tigers at once
The US–Israeli war with Iran has shattered Washington’s hope of concentrating its power on containing China. Instead, the United States is entangled in multiple conflicts while Beijing gains strategic time.
How Trump’s vision of a single-minded China containment has failed
Instead of disengaging to focus on China, Trump’s America is more deeply involved in Europe’s defence and the Middle East than before.