Trump and Xi prepare to face each other. Between threats and rare earths, both swear to the same vow: never kneel.
TikTok allows China to project pragmatism and a willingness to negotiate. It is not a defeat; it is a victory. Robert Redford in The Sting would have understood it that way, too.
President Xi just made a rare visit to Europe, bringing to mind a famous song about Che Guevara.
Humans live in a blinding dust like insects in a bowl. All day we go around and around and never get out of the bowl…
An obscure book published in 1991 by a Chinese academic is now fetching up to $2,500 in the wake of the January 6 assault on the Capitol.
We can a certain amount of repetition in 2022. Xi Jinping will be re-elected for the third time, and nationalism, in all its manifestations, shows no sign of going away.









