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The world is changing fast. Developing countries are on the rise, politics in the West is more turbulent than ever, technology is advancing at breakneck speed, people are moving across borders in new ways, and global institutions are struggling to keep up.
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Xi-Trump Summit: Seeking a Very Stable Rivalry? (opens the original)
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In May this year, Donald Trump flew to Beijing. This week, Xi Jinping returns the favour. The Chinese leader arrives in the United States on a state visit, with the two presidents set to meet on September 24. This is their second summit in under five months, and quite possibly not their last this year. But what exactly is happening between these two countries? Because on the one hand, Washington and Beijing seem to be finding ways to manage their differences. On the other, the underlying relatio
Afro-Optimism in the age of Disorder (opens the original)
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Ask almost anyone about the state of the world today and you’ll hear the same words: anxiety, disruption, disorder. There’s a sense of flux; nobody quite knows where things are heading. So it’s striking to come across a generation that looks at the very same world and feels, of all things, optimistic. That’s the finding of the latest Africa Youth Survey , published by the Ichikowitz Family Foundation. The survey is one of the most ambitious attempts to measure what the next generation of leaders
The Making & Re-making of Xi Jinping Thought (opens the original)
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How much can we really understand about Chinese politics from the outside, and how much has become genuinely unknowable? A senior general, who is a close confidant of Xi Jinping; a family friend for whom retirement norms were reportedly bent. Present one day, gone the next, with no explanation that outsiders can independently verify. That is the puzzle at the heart of China-watching today. Some things remain remarkably legible: the direction of policy, the priorities of the leadership, a range o
The Geopolitical Gene: Biology as Statecraft (opens the original)
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When we talk about what makes a nation strong, we reach instinctively for the familiar levers armies, economies, semiconductors, ships. But running quietly beneath all of them is something older and more intimate, i.e., the mastery of life itself. The ability to cure or to sicken, to feed a population or to starve one, to grow a crop that withstands a drought or a pathogen that crosses a border…Biology has always been an instrument of statecraft—from poisoned wells and court alchemists, to penic
The Actual Governance of China (opens the original)
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One of the enduring puzzles about China is how a country of its size is actually governed. We often talk about “Beijing” as though it were a single actor with a coherent strategy, but behind every policy announcement lies an immense bureaucracy, competing incentives, negotiations across different levels of government, and millions of officials whose decisions ultimately determine whether central directives succeed or fail. Understanding China’s political economy therefore requires us to understa
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