The Globalist

The year when China was brought out of its shell — and the U.S. started learning about unsuccessful interventions.

The Chinese-dominated Pakistani port city of Gwadar — the crown jewel of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) — increasingly looks like a powder keg that has exploded.

Examining the parallels in the political style and performance of Angela Merkel and Barack Obama, the past decade’s transatlantic power couple.

The EU and the U.S. need to address the real technology competitiveness challenge, which is China.

How the fight against inequality at home unites — and separates — Biden and Xi Jinping. And who seems to have the upper hand.

Societal struggles and reform often take unexpected turns in vast swaths of land stretching from the Middle East into Central Asia.

Tracing my mother’s journey from Warsaw to New Zealand via Palestine.

Afghanistan could emerge as a venue for Middle Eastern rivalries.

The Republican Party is utterly unprepared for the hard realities of relative U.S. decline vis-à-vis China.

The history of white nationalism, grievance and authoritarianism in Europe makes the agenda of the current Republican Party in the US far easier to understand.