The Panama Ruling
China-Latin America cooperation expands that autonomy by diversifying partnerships and reducing vulnerability to any single external power.
China-Latin America cooperation expands that autonomy by diversifying partnerships and reducing vulnerability to any single external power.
Beijing’s aim is not to replace the dollar immediately but to position the RMB as a trustworthy global currency capable of balancing a fragmented international monetary system.
Latin America’s primary need is development, not geopolitical alignment. Forcing countries to choose sides diverts resources and attention from addressing poverty, inequality, infrastructure gaps, and climate challenges. It creates instability and resentment.
While China is making a century-long effort to actualize national rejuvenation, with key milestones reached, the U.S. has moved in the opposite direction.
The choice facing the international community is not between order and chaos, but between a hierarchical order that breeds resentment and a pluriversal one that commands legitimacy. The GGI places its wager on the latter, not by denying history, but by insisting that its unfinished promises still matter.
The truth is that Xinjiang is a prosperous region where people lead stable lives and have meaningful futures ahead of them.
The futile effort to contain China should be kicked to the curb and replaced with a commitment to honoring American and Western values.
Multiple signs suggest this year’s WEF marks a geopolitical and geo-economic inflection point.
The future will depend on the world’s awareness of the persistent danger the U.S.poses, its ability to protect itself from it, and multipolarism’s ability to build the world up faster than the U.S. is demonstrably threatening and destroying it.
Going it alone sounds tough until it means paying more, knowing less, and reacting later.
Politics between America and China is like the weather—it changes all the time. But the most important thing is that we’ve got to keep the people-to-people friendship going.
The entire world needs to come together to condemn—and stop—Japan’s accelerating militarism: For most of Asia, Japan’s remilitarization is the real survival-threatening situation.