On Sunday, November 20, 2022, Senior Fellow Sourabh Gupta discussed the APEC 2022 Summit on CGTN America.

• “The issues have been fairly common, and its been common because they are facing global challenges, all the parties are facing challenges at the regional level which are also global, and we see that in the energy crisis, food insecurity, costs by the war, were trying to climb out of COVID-19 but there are still restrictions and the horizon’s not clear. With inflation in the western countries really shooting through and interest rates going up we might be seeing not just a regional but a global recession next year, so all parties know this is a really difficult environment a multidimensional crisis frankly, and that we should try our best to keep avenues open, avenues for communication open, avenues for business and commercial exchange open, and I think that’s where the focus has been.”
• “APEC remains just as critical and just as important, APEC was the author, the inventor of the term ‘open-regionalism’ in the late 1980s  which has been the foundational framework of issue wide liberalization it has anchored in the multilateral global roots based system. ARCEP has been very helpful because ARCEP is based on that very same theme of progressive, incremental but progressive, liberalization and so it has not destructed from APEC it has complimented APEC but APEC is the only trading venue in Asia where all the countries are represented.” 

On Thursday, November 17, 2022, Senior Advisor Denis Simon explained in S&T Daily how U,S,-China relations needs dialogue and understanding.

• “China has benefited tremendously from its global engagement.”
• “Chinese leaders showed a willingness to engage in fundamental changes in order to get China on a new path of more rapid modernization.”
• “Understand the true and accurate picture on both sides of the ocean.”
• “There has never been a trip to China where I have not learned something new,”

On Wednesday, November 16, 2022 Senior Fellow Sourabh Gupta discussed the G20 leaders meeting in Bali on CGTN’s The Heat.

• “It was always on the cards that the U.S. and China could stabilize their relationship given the warm and personal relations that President Xi and President Biden have, but there are also loads of issues within the relationship which have just made it much more complicated and at times sent it into a spiral. Both parties showed that they are responsible enough to be able to manage their differences, and hopefully cooperate in finding solutions.”
• “We’ve had this word, ‘like-minded nations’ creeping into our vocabulary too much, and you see a lot of that in the national security strategy and the communications taking place.”

On Wednesday, November 16, 2022, Senior Fellow Sourabh Gupta quoted by China Daily on the Biden-Xi meeting on the sidelines of the G20.

• “The problem, after all, is not a lack of positively expressed intentions…but the inability or unwillingness to translate these intentions into actual policy at the U.S. end, So we will have to wait and see how the ‘pudding’ tastes this time around.”

On Tuesday, November 15, 2022, Senior Fellow Sourabh Gupta discussed the Biden-Xi meeting before the G20 on CGTN America.

• “Given the state of the U.S.-China relations nothing can be taken for granted, and it is highly welcomed that the meeting went well, and that there were deliverables coming out of the meeting including on climate change; and including restarting the bilateral dialogue process in certain instances.”
• “…the meeting obviously did go well, but we have seen good intentions expressed previously in many of the virtual meetings placed over the last two years but that has not been translated into policy…”
• “That having been said…this meeting hit the baselines which needed to be hit, which is reestablishing in-person high level communications, restarting dialogue mechanisms, and at least attempting to provide reassurance to each other. From that standpoint, I think that the meeting was a success. We’ll have to see if going forward they can really translate this into action and I get a sense from the U.S. side that they do want to draw a line and they do want to have a more cooperative standpoint going forward over the next year or two, at least the administration that is.”

On Thursday, November 10, 2022, Research Associate Yilun Zhang was interviewed by PressTV on the current state of U.S.-China bilateral relations.

• “The rapidly evolving dynamics around the world also presents a pressing need for the two countries to restore and reinforce their communication channel.”
• “Any attempt [by the Biden administration] to soften tensions with China will be criticized [by Washington policymakers] as being soft to China…“ 

On Thursday, November 10, 2022, ​​Senior Fellow Sourabh Gupta‘s event video remarks were highlighted by China Daily.

• “China has interlocked itself within regional value chains. And it’s very tightly bound from a trade and investment perspective with markets, both in Asia and the Western world,”
• “I think China can become a first-class advanced nation. That will take time still, but I think China has succeeded, and there’s no reason to believe that China will not succeed, even though the next 30 years will be very difficult, both geopolitically, even pursuing high-quality development,”
• “It’s become very, very clear over the past two to three years that the U.S. strategy, economic strategy with regard to China, is no longer to create a reciprocal, beneficial exchange, as much as to constrain China’s rise. In fact, at some levels to contain China’s development and rise.”

On Sunday, November 20, 2022, Senior Fellow Sourabh Gupta discussed the APEC 2022 Summit on CGTN America.

• “The issues have been fairly common, and its been common because they are facing global challenges, all the parties are facing challenges at the regional level which are also global, and we see that in the energy crisis, food insecurity, costs by the war, were trying to climb out of COVID-19 but there are still restrictions and the horizon’s not clear. With inflation in the western countries really shooting through and interest rates going up we might be seeing not just a regional but a global recession next year, so all parties know this is a really difficult environment a multidimensional crisis frankly, and that we should try our best to keep avenues open, avenues for communication open, avenues for business and commercial exchange open, and I think that’s where the focus has been.”
• “APEC remains just as critical and just as important, APEC was the author, the inventor of the term ‘open-regionalism’ in the late 1980s  which has been the foundational framework of issue wide liberalization it has anchored in the multilateral global roots based system. ARCEP has been very helpful because ARCEP is based on that very same theme of progressive, incremental but progressive, liberalization and so it has not destructed from APEC it has complimented APEC but APEC is the only trading venue in Asia where all the countries are represented.” 

On Thursday, November 17, 2022, Senior Advisor Denis Simon explained in S&T Daily how U,S,-China relations needs dialogue and understanding.

• “China has benefited tremendously from its global engagement.”
• “Chinese leaders showed a willingness to engage in fundamental changes in order to get China on a new path of more rapid modernization.”
• “Understand the true and accurate picture on both sides of the ocean.”
• “There has never been a trip to China where I have not learned something new,”

On Wednesday, November 16, 2022 Senior Fellow Sourabh Gupta discussed the G20 leaders meeting in Bali on CGTN’s The Heat.

• “It was always on the cards that the U.S. and China could stabilize their relationship given the warm and personal relations that President Xi and President Biden have, but there are also loads of issues within the relationship which have just made it much more complicated and at times sent it into a spiral. Both parties showed that they are responsible enough to be able to manage their differences, and hopefully cooperate in finding solutions.”
• “We’ve had this word, ‘like-minded nations’ creeping into our vocabulary too much, and you see a lot of that in the national security strategy and the communications taking place.”

On Wednesday, November 16, 2022, Senior Fellow Sourabh Gupta quoted by China Daily on the Biden-Xi meeting on the sidelines of the G20.

• “The problem, after all, is not a lack of positively expressed intentions…but the inability or unwillingness to translate these intentions into actual policy at the U.S. end, So we will have to wait and see how the ‘pudding’ tastes this time around.”

On Tuesday, November 15, 2022, Senior Fellow Sourabh Gupta discussed the Biden-Xi meeting before the G20 on CGTN America.

• “Given the state of the U.S.-China relations nothing can be taken for granted, and it is highly welcomed that the meeting went well, and that there were deliverables coming out of the meeting including on climate change; and including restarting the bilateral dialogue process in certain instances.”
• “…the meeting obviously did go well, but we have seen good intentions expressed previously in many of the virtual meetings placed over the last two years but that has not been translated into policy…”
• “That having been said…this meeting hit the baselines which needed to be hit, which is reestablishing in-person high level communications, restarting dialogue mechanisms, and at least attempting to provide reassurance to each other. From that standpoint, I think that the meeting was a success. We’ll have to see if going forward they can really translate this into action and I get a sense from the U.S. side that they do want to draw a line and they do want to have a more cooperative standpoint going forward over the next year or two, at least the administration that is.”

On Thursday, November 10, 2022, Research Associate Yilun Zhang was interviewed by PressTV on the current state of U.S.-China bilateral relations.

• “The rapidly evolving dynamics around the world also presents a pressing need for the two countries to restore and reinforce their communication channel.”
• “Any attempt [by the Biden administration] to soften tensions with China will be criticized [by Washington policymakers] as being soft to China…“ 

On Thursday, November 10, 2022, ​​Senior Fellow Sourabh Gupta‘s event video remarks were highlighted by China Daily.

• “China has interlocked itself within regional value chains. And it’s very tightly bound from a trade and investment perspective with markets, both in Asia and the Western world,”
• “I think China can become a first-class advanced nation. That will take time still, but I think China has succeeded, and there’s no reason to believe that China will not succeed, even though the next 30 years will be very difficult, both geopolitically, even pursuing high-quality development,”
• “It’s become very, very clear over the past two to three years that the U.S. strategy, economic strategy with regard to China, is no longer to create a reciprocal, beneficial exchange, as much as to constrain China’s rise. In fact, at some levels to contain China’s development and rise.”