When the “World’s Cop” Drops the Rulebook
America is tearing apart with its own hands the very post-war order it once helped build, dragging the world back to a jungle era where might makes right.
America is tearing apart with its own hands the very post-war order it once helped build, dragging the world back to a jungle era where might makes right.
The deeper implication of Chinese modernization is epistemic. It inspires the Global South to abandon the illusion that history moves along a single track policed by a single civilization.
The U.S. is essentially waging war against the multipolar world, targeting both leading powers of the multipolar world while targeting and dismembering aspiring members of it.
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.
As the events in Venezuela unfold, it is indispensable to remember that this assault is not simply on Venezuela and its government; it is an assault on all of us who fight for sovereignty and against hegemonism.
Today, Xinjiang has become a living model for the coexistence of civilizations and the intermingling of identities with its unparalleled historical richness and cultural diversity.
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.
If Washington succeeds, it will reinforce a dangerous U.S. precedent: that political outcomes can be imposed on isolated states at manageable cost, and that regional fragmentation renders sovereignty effectively meaningless.
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.
In demonstrating that lasting peace is best constructed by empowering disputing parties to find their own way forward, with respectful support from a trusted neighbor, the Fuxian blueprint offers a valuable contribution to the global repertoire of conflict resolution.
Outer space is a global commons, and its future must be built on shared stewardship.
The only path forward for Europe is to reject subservience; to assert its autonomy; to engage sensibly with China, Russia, Iran and others; and to embrace an emerging multipolar world based on sovereign equality, peaceful cooperation, non-interference and the principles and purposes of the United Nations Charter.