China does not seek out trouble, but it is not afraid of it, either.
[T]he ideology of amorality with its three supreme values—might is right, the wealthiest are always right and ethnonational majoritarianism is the spirit of republicanism—is sweeping the world.
[T]he erosion of the post-1945 international rules is real and alarming, but so far enough people still remember why we made them in the first place.
We need only turn to German history to see that resistance to transgender and intersex individuals is intrinsic to fascist societies.