Also, like Putin, Xi had seen for himself what happened when a communist regime lost power. Xi was a mid-ranking party official in the southeastern province of Fujian when he watched the Soviet Union collapse. Read More Here
Sri Lanka will have to endure its unprecedented economic hardships for at least two more years, the country’s finance minister said while warning of an imminent cash crunch. Read More Here
The reality is that middle powers have independent security, economic, and regional interests (among others) that cut against America’s Manichean worldview and abstract objectives. Read More Here
The economic war is most unlikely to affect the outcome of the Ukraine War, but it does seem likely to produce outcomes that will prejudice energy security and the climate agenda, while falling hardest on the world’s poor. Read More Here
The reluctance of the Rest to jeopardize relations with Putin’s Russia will complicate the West’s ability to manage ties with allies and others not only now but also when the war is over. Read More Here
We have entered a new space era, projecting all the Earth’s great power pathologies—ambition, fear, and greed—into the heavens. Read More Here
The war is a serious setback to Europe’s strong yet incomplete recovery from the pandemic, which left private consumption and investment well below pre-coronavirus forecasts, even as fiscal and monetary support underpinned an impressive rebound in employment almost to levels last seen before the pandemic.
Watching Russia falter in Ukraine, Chinese President Xi Jinping may conclude that if he decides to invade Taiwan, he cannot hope to achieve victory with little or limited fighting. The risk is that this will lead him to prepare a much bigger assault, deploying far heavier and more concentrated firepower to batter the island into submission. […]
There’s a new coalition government in power in Islamabad. And, like its predecessors, it not only inherits an economy in crisis, but is also engaging the International Monetary Fund, as well as key foreign partners – including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – for emergency support. Read More Here
China’s full-scale lockdown of Shanghai, the country’s largest urban economy, will have far-reaching economic and social costs. More than just a public-health measure, the move should be interpreted as a reassertion of centralized control and a partial reversal of the devolution of power that took root after 1978. Read More Here
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