Who Decides What Happens on the Ocean Floor?
When technological capacity and resource distribution are profoundly unequal, how to prevent the powerful from claiming, in the name of efficiency, what belongs to everyone?
When technological capacity and resource distribution are profoundly unequal, how to prevent the powerful from claiming, in the name of efficiency, what belongs to everyone?
From Washington’s perspective, Japan is increasingly little more than a pawn to be discarded when convenient, and Takaichi’s trip to the U.S. laid that bare.
Only through sustained growth can China, Asia and the RCEP region become the greatest source of certainty in the global economy over the next decade, and play a notable role in regional integration and a new wave of globalization.
The only correct pathway for Washington is to work together with China on the base of equality, mutual respect and mutual benefit.
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.
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 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.