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Ruling out the cataclysmic scenario of war, Mexico has a lot to lose and a lot to gain in the spaces that are opened by this struggle between the powers in today’s Thucydides’ trap.

The United States is ... engaged in an all-out confrontation with China ... to prevent it from taking position as the leading world power.

With FATCA, the U.S. demands information from banks worldwide about their American customers. FATCA is also the model for the OECD-standard for information exchange. However, U.S. actions are hardly reciprocal, and it receives special treatment from the OECD.

Tocqueville feared that American democracy, then universal democracy, would only suppress liberties under the weight of the majority by obligatory conformity. It’s the opposite that’s happening.

Because, nowadays, feeding the “fat cats” is one of Obama's priorities.