How The Abraham Accords Changed The Middle East
The amazing point is that religion can serve as a unifier—bringing people of different backgrounds together—not a divider. Read More Here
Tag: Society
Gorbachev Never Realised What He Set In Motion
Almost nobody has ever had such a profound impact on an era, while understanding so little about it. Read More Here
The Balance Of Soft Power
As in the United States, soft power has been treated as a hopeful idea in China: an important additive to the country’s rise, especially its economic expansion. Read More Here
New India Army Plan May Have ‘Devastating Consequences’
India’s scheme of short-term contractual soldiers is motivated by financial constraints but will have a direct bearing on its society. Read More Here
China’s Push To Advance Rural Revitalisation
Xi is promoting a new vision to tackle long-standing problems like the rural-urban divide, food security, and poverty. Read More Here
What Racism Costs Us All
Demanding an end to racism, and a remedy for its legacy, is not just morally correct but a boost to economic development. Continuing to deny the existence of racism, and refusing to confront it, will lead to a less vibrant, less cohesive, less prosperous world. Read More Here
The Triumph And Terror Of Wang Huning
Many believe that China’s ‘profound transformation” is a result of President Xi Jinping’s seemingly endless personal obsession with political control. The overlooked answer, however, is that this is indeed the culmination of decades of thinking and planning by a very powerful man—but that man is not Xi. Read More Here
How China Exports Authoritarianism
To respond to Beijing’s ideological challenge, advocates of democracy must have a better understanding of what China aims to achieve by exporting its political model and how its actions are weakening democracy globally. Read More Here
China: The Ground Shakes, Is An Earthquake Coming?
China’s domestic situation must be watched very closely in the year to come, before Xi is elevated to Mao status by the next Party congress. We should not discount the rationality of many of the new rules being introduced. Read More Here
Taliban Hard-Line Path Worsens Afghanistan Dilemma
Reminiscent of their previous harsh rule in the 1990s, the Taliban have already begun to wipe out some of Afghanistan’s gains of 20 years. They’ve denied women a seat at the Cabinet, beaten journalists into silence and enforced their severe interpretation of Islam, on occasion violently. Read More Here
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