Over the past year, analysts and writers in the mainstream press as well as in some left-wing media have argued that China has upended…

The G20 summit in Rio earlier this week offered the quite intriguing spectacle of a deeply divided world, geopolitically and geoeconomically, trying…

Cooperation or Competition? On November 7, 2024, Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to President-elect Trump that said: “A stable, healthy, sustainably…

For the past few weeks I have been on the road in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Australia at the invitation of groups…

As Washington doubles down on its semiconductor embargoes, a troubling paradox emerges: in trying to stymie China’s technological advances, the United States…

If you ask the average citizen of any country whether their leaders should start wars, almost all would give a resounding “No.” The…

An old theme within social theory holds that societies with very unequal distributions of wealth can sustain their social cohesion so long…

‘Europe’s new external investment strategy needs to reconnect with historical business models we are going back to white elephants of 1970s –…

Signed on July 25, 2024, the Beijing Declaration marks a historic moment for Palestinian reconciliation. For the first time, a broad spectrum…

At the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Washington, the focus was on Ukraine. In the Washington Declaration, the NATO leaders wrote,…