US Display of Might

The Beijing summit did not produce a major agreement between the great powers on the region, but it firmly established that Middle Eastern crises are now deeply tied to the great-power dialogue.

[I]t appears that the [U.S.] is capitulating in the talks.

[T]he United States had itself rendered that alliance network more fragile.

In a globalised economy, the knock-on effect is less of a surge but more of a deluge that reaches East Africa with alarming speed.

Europeans do not have a choice. They have to get along with both Xi’s China and Trump’s America.