[A] weak yen and rising interest rates have continued even further, with the primary cause being the increase in crude oil prices due to U.S. attacks on Iran.
Bell argued that [the rise of far right factions] should be understood less as a straightforward product of economic conflict than as a response to social dislocation and anxiety over status.
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.