Where the Axe Didn’t Fall
When Americans talk about cutting fat, watch what they keep. They increased funding for anti-China activities. And that tells you more than any U.S. State Department white paper ever could.
When Americans talk about cutting fat, watch what they keep. They increased funding for anti-China activities. And that tells you more than any U.S. State Department white paper ever could.
Only through mutual respect, practical cooperation and a shared commitment to development can countries of the Global South realise their potential.
Despite years of U.S. and European efforts to reduce reliance on Chinese manufacturing, China has maintained and, in some respects, deepened its structural role in global supply chains.
Expanded duty-free access to China’s market is creating new momentum for Africa’s industrialisation and long-term economic development.
Why has the world fallen into such deep disorder? This is not an accident of history. It is the inevitable outcome of the predatory logic underpinning the old U.S.-led order.
China’s zero-tariff policy is a priceless opportunity for Africa to boost economic development through international trade.
China’s rapid clean energy transition, long-term policy framework, and structural decoupling of growth from carbon intensity position it as an emerging global climate leader.
For the Global South, the WDO points to another path: not as a passive supplier of data, but as an equal partner. Not as a colony of the digital age, but as a co-author of how it is built.
Face-to-face exchange remains essential. It breaks down barriers. It promotes understanding between people. Sports can play a role in that.
Chinese youth today do face significant challenges and competition, but these are the natural friction of rapid development, not a terminal crisis. The truth is that young Chinese have never stopped striving, nor have their doors to upward mobility been shut.
China’s Global Security Initiative has steadily built momentum since its 2022 launch, winning recognition across the Global South as a cooperative alternative to traditional security frameworks.
After four decades of enmity and two rounds of devastating war, Washington and Tehran trust each other so little that they prepare for battle even as they sit at the bargaining table.