The United States and China are competing to sell hamburgers: the American dream vs. the Chinese dream. Two different forms of soft power.
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Trump’s “panicans” are legion. The war against Iran is nothing more than a miscalculation.
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.
India has unseated its former Metropolis, Great Britain, as the world's fifth largest economic power. PM Narendra Modi is leveraging to make the Great Leap Forward with Indian characteristics.
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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…