China’s President Xi Jinping has made his first public appearance in two weeks, in a sign that the Communist Party’s annual secretive summer retreat on the Yellow Sea has ended. Read More Here
In a world of multipolarity and growing complexity President Xi can paradoxically show more flexibility, and to emphasise China’s (and his) role as “a reasonable stakeholder” in a multipolar, rules-based order, but one in which China’s role is both ascendant and recognized. Read More Here
Whatever their electoral implications, recent US legislative achievements – from the CHIPS and Science Act to the Inflation Reduction Act – portend a massive increase in long-term investment in America’s growth potential, and in balancing out the various dimensions of its growth pattern. It’s a change that couldn’t come too soon. Read More Here
The U.S. House of Representatives will vote Friday on a $430 billion bill to fight climate change and lower prescription drug prices, in what Democrats view as a major political win for President Joe Biden. Read More Here
Shahbaz Gill, a close aide to former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan, was charged with sedition over claims that he tried to incite a mutiny within the military. Read More Here
The size of India’s population and its standing as the world’s largest democracy already deliver a measure of global political clout. Yet India’s palpable aspiration to assume its rightful place as a great power requires some big changes. Read More Here
As China prepares for this fall’s 20th Party Congress, the odds grow stronger by the day that Chinese President Xi Jinping will emerge from the meeting having secured a third term in office. Read More Here
Provincial chiefs and central government ministers have gathered in Beijing to study President Xi Jinping’s governing doctrines – a signal that the ruling Communist Party will soon hold its twice-a-decade congress. Read More Here
Greeks and other southern Europeans could now be feeling schadenfreude as Germany faces the collapse of its economic model in the face of the Ukraine war and the new cold war with China. But with a democratic Europe in the balance, this is no time to gloat. Read More Here
Time will tell whether President Joe Biden’s Middle East trip proves to be a turning point, but those who dismiss its importance are missing the bigger picture. Read More Here
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