The global market: conquer it, banish it, or integrate it. Modern times impose an unprecedented trilemma on China. Beijing may want to fudge it, but there is no way around it. The Chinese Communist Party, like the Holy See, meets challenges from a broad conceptual standpoint. Currently, its currency is not fully convertible, whereas all […]
The world saw a short-term truce and long-term reconciliation within hours. The US and China broke new ground by setting aside some differences; the Pope ended a two-century-old cultural war. America, which a year ago was supposed to overwhelm China with a barrage of tariffs, today sent its President Donald Trump to the airport to […]
Internationally, it’s fine; domestically, less so. As issues mount, Beijing should use this lull to address them, or they’ll become impossible. Unless the world goes to hell in the next couple of years. The forthcoming summit between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, is no G2. They won’t try to divide […]
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America’s small and big mistakes pave the way for China’s rise as leader of a new multipolar world. Clumsiness in European politics could spin all out of control. Will Trump rethink? After the AfD victory in Saxony-Anhalt, the loudest noise was French radical-right leader Marine Le Pen’s silence. She may fear that the AfD scares […]
The rise of Germany’s AfD and Italy’s Vannacci brings back the temptations of WWII. It’s easy to fall for easy answers to complex questions. Yet the alternative is even simpler: do Europeans really want to be ruled by Moscow? The dual challenge posed by the AfD in Germany and by Roberto Vannacci in Italy risks […]
Chronicles of wars and the search for broad theories converge on the US difficulties in striking tariff deals and the march to the Chinese Party Congress, where Xi could accrue more power than Mao The 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games opened in Beijing on August 22 and will run through August 26. The numbers alone […]
