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.
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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…
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.
The Year of the Ox. According to Chinese astrology, as well as others, our destiny is directly related to the position of the planets at the time of our birth. Chinese astrologers, observing the orbit of Jupiter around the sun, divided it into 12 sections, corresponding to 12 years, each named after an animal.