What Is Behind Increase in U.S. Murder Rate?
Heightened fears of murder and assault will shape American political discourse for years to come.
Heightened fears of murder and assault will shape American political discourse for years to come.
The U.K. is repeatedly cutting off its own nose to spite its face to appease American preferences. Doing so undermines jobs, investment and opportunities with one of its most critical trade and investment partners. This costly decision has put America first and British workers last.
It is impossible to forge cooperation and partnership without consensus on threats or shared concerns of threats with regional actors.
The G20 summit in Bali is not likely to be a great game-changer. However, it is a significant diplomatic breakthrough for China to pursue its multilateral vision and engage with several countries. Governments must work together and push for the bigger picture if real progress is to be made.
China will comfortably reach the 25% mark for non-fossil energy in 2030 and is well on track to achieve the mid-century target of carbon neutrality before 2060.
We will know in the next weeks the final count of seats, but even if Republicans win a small majority in the House of Representatives, they won’t be able to govern. They will instead try to muck up governance to mess with the Democratic president.
It should not be surprising that the midterm results are, at best, indecisive because they reflect the status of an increasingly divided and broken American political framework marred by partisan conflict.
China’s plan for the greening of the Belt and Road Initiative offers an explicit and clear direction for all key stakeholders to materialize the related goals based on their respective positions and strengths.
Openness promotes economic development; open economies can specialize and trade with each other.
American politics is not so much a system for change or the voice of the people as it is a means to consolidate the status quo to preserve certain interests. But as people’s patience and tolerance of it wears thin, the constitutional order of the U.S. will be subject to more and more tests in the years to come.
Trump activists are attempting a new kind of neo-colonialism whereby DC-funded political professionals try to enact their corporatist will on foreign countries.