Diplomacy is in full gear, seeking a pause to wars and tussles. Russia and China may not trust the US, but all may need a truce; it might be fragile. Beijing is trying to get out of a corner. In the game of friendship and suspicion among the grand capitals of the Eurasian landmass—Moscow, Beijing, […]
Perhaps the US is looking at things from the wrong angle. Why save Moscow from a self-destructive fight? As a percentage of GDP, the war is far more costly for Russia than for the US or the EU. The US may seek peace in Ukraine to save resources, convince Russia to break with Beijing, focus […]
The US has no problem bigger than China’s challenge, yet Beijing is ready for drawn-out friction, so the US may need a long-term strategy. On March 8, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post opined that the meeting between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky showed that America is leading a retreat […]
A new global horizon is looming after the White House shambles. Can the US and its allies patch up a way forward and begin to shape something like a modern “Holy Roman Empire?” This week could be crucial to start outlining a way forward after the spat at the White House. It’s a massive mess […]
The tension between Trump and Zelensky at the White House may be not just a spat but a display of a serious strategic American fissure in how to deal with Russia and China. In early January 2020, as soon as the news of Covid from China spread and Beijing ordered a lockdown on several cities, […]
It’s a US capitalist revolution, but its voice, geared towards domestic politics, is backfiring internationally, undermining the president and the country. What is fairer? The rock show of the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, brandishing a chainsaw and promising to cut civil servants’ jobs (i.e., take wealth from the poor and give it […]
Trump may wish to get a peace deal and win the mid-term elections, but blaming Zelensky is a step too far. It may unravel everything and trap the president in an impossible position US President Donald Trump changed his version of the war, blaming Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and absolving Russian president Vladimir Putin to […]
