Only China, India, and Russia Can End the Iran War
Washington needs its rivals to create peace on its behalf. Read More Here
Category: World
World has to learn to live through closures
In August Taiwan deliberately slowed down its own mobile internet, and the rest of the year has been busy proving it right. The civil defence exercises of 5 to 14 August throttled bandwidth on purpose in two thirty-minute windows, to test what the island’s communications would feel like under blockade. The defence ministry rehearsed relocating […]
How Geopolitics Overran Globalization
The current geopolitical situation has ended the dream of economic integration. Read More Here
It’s Xi Jinping’s World, and Trump Is Just Living in It
As Donald Trump blows up the rules-based order, China is pulling ahead in the global battle for ideas. Read More Here
What Happened to the Anglosphere? The Tale of Two Enlightenments
What used to be called the Anglosphere — those countries that are direct heirs to English traditions of constitutional government, the rule of law, and individual rights — is now in disarray. Read More Here
US wields nuclear test claim to press China on arms control
Claim that China conducted a covert nuclear test in 2020 is less about one decoupling blast than locking in its inferior stockpile. Read More Here
Fit For Purpose? Why Global Alliances Are in Decline
In the 21st century alliances ceased to fulfill their key function — preventing conflicts. Instead, they have increasingly become sources of tension as old mechanisms of collective security no longer correspond to new realities. Read More Here
The Emerging World Order Looks Like the Old One
What is replacing the current world order looks very much like what came before it, a world where the strong do as they wish and the weak accept what they must. Read More Here
It Looks Like a Trump-Putin-Xi World, But It’s Really Orwell’s
How the Alaska summit reflects the superpower carve-up foretold in ‘1984.’ Read More Here
80 Years Ago, World War II Ended with Japan’s Surrender
Even after the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was not universally expected that Japan would capitulate. Read More Here
