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.
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.
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.
In sum, the trajectory of China-U.S. relations in 2025 shows that maximum pressure alone cannot compel the other side to yield; instead, it triggers strong retaliation and imposes costs on both parties.
Perhaps the most constructive result of this contest is a hard-won realization, particularly in Washington, that treating one’s largest trading partner and supply-chain anchor as an adversary to be easily vanquished is a grave strategic miscalculation.
The most recent National Security Strategy outlines the continued pursuit of U.S. primacy worldwide.