Xi and Putin Stand Up for Humanity at Davos: Closed vs Open System Ideologies Clash Again

Xi and Putin Stand Up for Humanity at Davos: Closed vs Open System Ideologies Clash Again

Where one system promotes the trojan horse seeds of its own annihilation, the other promotes the seeds of fruitful new epochs of continual growth and discoveries both on the surface of the earth and also beyond, Matthew Ehret writes. Between January 25-29, 2021, world leaders were corralled into a digital conference titled “The Davos Agenda”…

The Atlantic Council’s Anti-Chinese Containment Strategy Will Fail

The Atlantic Council’s Anti-Chinese Containment Strategy Will Fail

What the Atlantic Council doesn’t realize is that its unnamed author’s visceral hatred for the Chinese President is actually a powerful endorsement of his leadership successes. The Atlantic Council, one of the US’ most powerful think tanks, published an extremely provocative anti-Chinese containment strategy proposal titled “The Longer Telegram: Toward a new American China strategy”….

Davos 2021 Speeches by Putin and Xi Point to a Different Future

Davos 2021 Speeches by Putin and Xi Point to a Different Future

The Davos Group of nations recently held its annual meeting electronically, the coronavirus preventing attendance in person for the first time. The United States was represented by John Kerry, one of many Democrats recycled from the Obama years. Russia was represented by its president, Vladimir Putin, and China, for the first time since 2017, by…

Here’s How China Survived and Thrived During Four Years of Trump

Here’s How China Survived and Thrived During Four Years of Trump

The lesson to be learned is that aggression will always backfire and that cooperation is the only way forward in today’s complex world. The past four years of US President Trump’s time in office were very challenging for China, ye the country managed to not only survive, but even thrive despite the American leader’s best…

Can You Smell What the Chinese Are Cooking?

Can You Smell What the Chinese Are Cooking?

Less than a week before the game-changing U.S. presidential election, the real heart of the geopolitical and geoeconomic action is virtually invisible to the outside world. We’re talking about the fifth plenum of the 19th Chinese Communist Party (CPC) Central Committee, which started this past Monday in Beijing. The plenum congregates the 200 members –…