The Small Ball Still Moves the Big Ball
Face-to-face exchange remains essential. It breaks down barriers. It promotes understanding between people. Sports can play a role in that.
Face-to-face exchange remains essential. It breaks down barriers. It promotes understanding between people. Sports can play a role in that.
We might have different cultural values, we might have different cultural norms, we might have perceptions about each other. But the fact is we are both human.
Sustainable development depends on openness, cooperation and respect for mutually agreed rules.
More predictable economic ties between China and the U.S. would have spillover benefits beyond the two countries.
The only correct pathway for Washington is to work together with China on the base of equality, mutual respect and mutual benefit.
Without practicing benevolence and righteousness, the balance of power in offense and defense changes.
Long-term social planning, economic growth, stable governance and political stability all point to one thing: the system chosen by China works.
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.