Shutdown of the US, Shutdown of Democratic Capitalism

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.

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.

During the Cold War, the United States occupied the apex of this triangular dynamic, pitting China and the USSR against each other. Today, it is Beijing that occupies that apex.

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

A summit that would normally send a reassuring message ... faces total uncertainty thanks to the weakness of the United States. The only person to blame for this is Trump.

Four days after Donald Trump announced ...he would send 5,000 U.S. troops to Poland, it is still unclear what the American leader had in mind

[T]he U.S. has failed to achieve the strategic goals of the war on Iran.