What Xi Really Wants From Trump
As US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, prepare to meet in Washington, American policymakers must not underestimate China’s ambitions. Read More Here
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Trump and Xi Can’t Stop the U.S.-China Spiral
The delusions of summitry and the limits of personalist diplomacy won’t make ties better. Read More Here
How Canada’s Trump headache is fuelling a China trade boom
Exports to China hit their highest first-half level in decades as Ottawa looks to reduce dependence on its southern neighbour. Read More Here
What India Gets Out of BRICS
Ahead of the group’s leaders’ summit, New Delhi is pulling out the stops. Read More Here
How to Survive in a World Without Rules
Self-help is becoming more vital in a vicious world. Read More Here
Rising seas, rising stakes: What increasing sea levels mean to humanity
The ocean is rising faster now than at any point in recorded history. The impacts are already being felt and the threats are growing. Read More Here
Asia’s New Growth Challenge
As societies age and trade fragments, policymakers must adapt to sustain growth and support rising living standards. Read More Here
How China Found Its Most Potent Weapon
The real history of Beijing’s rare-earth dominance. Read More Here
World has to learn to live through closures
Why did Taiwan spend part of this month deliberately slowing down its own mobile internet? The civil defence exercises that opened in early August are testing what the island’s communications — reliant on undersea cables — would feel like under blockade, with bandwidth throttled on purpose to see how citizens would talk to one another […]
How America’s 250-year China dream became its greatest strategic challenge
Historians trace how US hopes of trade, reform and friendship gave way to rivalry with the power it once sought to transform. Read More Here
