The TikTok Deal Is America’s White Flag in the Tech War With China
Beijing will still retain considerable influence over the U.S. version of the app. Read More Here
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Mohammed bin Salman’s Style Shift Sets Up a New World Order Strategy
The Saudi leader has morphed from a cocksure young prince to a more patient and strategic international power broker. Read More Here
Afghanistan Under the Taliban: What We Know and Don’t Know
After over three years in power, the Taliban appear to be trying outreach as well as repression in governing Afghanistan’s diverse communities. Read More Here
China’s Rebalancing Imperative
China’s deeply entrenched countercyclical policy mindset is misaligned with its structural challenges: mounting deflationary risks, exacerbated by the lethal interplay between a rapidly aging population and serious productivity problems. Read More Here
The New Idea of India
Narendra Modi’s reign is producing a less liberal but more assured nation. Read More Here
The World’s Biggest Crisis Is the End of Scarcity
How our era of plenty has created the global problems that plague us today. Read More Here
Our Megathreatened Age
It is now common knowledge that economic, monetary, and financial threats are rising and interacting in dangerous ways with various other social, political, geopolitical, environmental, health, and technological developments. And there is little reason to believe that today’s leaders can manage these multiplying risks. Read More Here
Asia’s Chinese diaspora celebrates first post-Covid Lunar New Year even as inflation bites
Covid-19 remains a concern for some, even as many people spare no expense to celebrate while others mull cost-cutting measures for festivities. Retailers expect a boost as consumers snap up pre-Lunar New Year purchases even as some are caught between raising prices and absorbing them. Read More Here
The 6 Horsemen of the Apocalypse for China
The struggles of 2022 highlighted six crises China will have to face now and into the future. Read More Here
China’s Population Marks First Decline In 60 Years
Mainland China’s overall population fell in 2022, illustrating how widespread shifts to pro-natalist policies are not producing the desired results. Read More Here
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