The Globalist

As China rings in the New Year, a brief look at some of the problems the country is facing.

The Meng Wanzhou affair has profound implications for diplomacy everywhere.

An uncertain nation, a happy-go-loose leader and a global beauty pageant.

China’s president talks high-mindedly about economic globalization. Sounds good, until you see his latest global export strategy – tools for human control.

China has turned human rights into an underrated, yet crucial battleground in the shaping of a new world order.

Grass-roots interactions may not lay the groundwork for a viable relationship between the U.S. and China – but they can’t hurt.

Canada will always be at risk of being used as a proxy as the U.S. manages internal and external conflicts.

If China has a problem, so does the global economy.

How is Europe impacted by transatlantic and U.S.-Chinese trade tensions and by trade with China itself?

Emerging market economies in a post-oil era might find themselves in the same traps when mining for the necessary metals.