The attrition around China is not entirely unprecedented. Now if the USA stops believing in its system, it may lose it all. Just hours before Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor of New York, the most important and iconic American city, Dick Cheney, the heart and mind of traditional, centrist conservative America, passed away. Perhaps a […]
Chapter V of Pope Francis’s encyclical Fratelli Tutti. On Fraternity and Social Friendship is dedicated to fraternity as a political technique aimed at achieving social friendship, which is capable of constructively and creatively managing conflicts within societies. Democracies that emerged from the two great modern revolutions are essentially based on the combination of freedom and […]
Following the appointment of Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury, Anglican churches affiliated with the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) issued a statement. Founded in 2008, GAFCON is governed by the Jerusalem Declaration. The statement was signed by President Laurent Mbanda, Primate of the Anglican Church of Rwanda, and announced «the reordering of the Anglican […]
The upcoming US-China summit in Korea will be the first of its kind, with the PRC holding a strategic advantage over the US. How did Xi consolidate power internally, and what are his risks? This is a reprint of an essay on the topic from 30 months ago. It will be the sixth meeting between […]
A law regulating the presence and activities of the Orthodox Church linked to the Moscow Patriarchate is already in force in Ukraine, under discussion in the Supreme Court in Estonia, and planned and feared in Moldova. Three years of war with Russia have made such a law acceptable in Ukraine. The theoretical danger of invasion […]
It’s the largest PLA purge in the history of the People’s Republic of China. Officially, it’s all blamed on corruption, but something is unclear, and Taiwan’s strategy may have changed in the meantime. The most notable development from this week’s Party Plenum is the large-scale purge of the PLA (People’s Liberation Army). Here’s a brief […]
The meeting with Putin was canceled; will the one with Xi be the same? The conference is de facto scheduled during Cold War II. Expectations can’t be high, but it would be a significant achievement to limit escalations. The summit between American President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping could be a meeting […]
