Patrick Lawrence: The Strong, and the Merely Powerful
In the world order now emerging, it is genuinely strong nations that will prevail over those reliant on power alone, and force will have little to do with it.
Zachary Karabell: China Is Not the Enemy—It Is America’s Indispensable Economic Partner
Author Zachary Karabell pleads that, despite the militaristic noise, China and the U.S. share an economic dependency that would rupture the domestic economy of both nations if severed.
Katrina Vanden Heuvel: Do Americans Care About a Cold War With Russia and China?
Americans' top security concerns include safety at home and protecting jobs.
‘Dear Friends’ Xi and Putin: Project Unity
By Ray McGovern / Antiwar.com In the official Chinese and Russian statements regarding Thursday’s meeting between Presidents XI Jinping and Vladimir Putin in Samarkand lies not a scintilla of evidence…
Putin Sees Future With Asia and Claims Western Economic Decline in New Speech
Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum, Putin addressed Western sanctions, Russia’s growing relationship with Asia and an update on Ukraine.
China Forgives 23 Loans for 17 African Countries, Expands ‘Win-Win’ Trade and Infrastructure Projects
China is forgiving 23 interest-free loans for 17 African countries, after already cancelling $3.4 billion and restructuring $15 billion of debt from 2000-2019. Beijing pledged more infrastructure projects and offered…
Patrick Lawrence: Language and Its Enemies
Media critic Patrick Lawrence lays out how the aftermath and potential consequences of Pelosi’s Taiwan visit are made obscure by certain media outlets.
Joseph E. Stiglitz: How the U.S. Could Lose the New Cold War
Since the United States seems serious about confronting China in an extended contest for global supremacy, it had better start getting its own house in order. Other countries will not…
How to Save the World From a Climate Armageddon
If Beijing and Washington can’t reach some kind of serious agreement, we, our children, and our grandchildren are in trouble deep. We face a future all-too-literally embroiled in what, as…
Nathan Gardels: Is China Serious About Its ‘Socialist Market’?
Robert Scheer discusses the paradoxical past, present and future of the rising superpower's economic model with a fellow veteran Beijing watcher.
Biden Is Playing an Apocalyptic Game of Chicken With China
Could the U.S. and China face an unintended blowup in the Western Pacific in the Biden years?
A New Cold War Could Be Just Around the Corner
As the Biden presidency approaches, an era of great-power competition between the U.S. and China is already taken for granted inside the Washington Beltway.
Trump Is Losing to China in Two Big Ways
As the FBI’s Christopher Wray put it, “In economic and technical terms is already a peer competitor of the U.S."