The Greenland Gambit
Greenland is not a peripheral territory but a central piece of geography caught within a renewed U.S. strategy of global containment.
Greenland is not a peripheral territory but a central piece of geography caught within a renewed U.S. strategy of global containment.
Against the backdrop of rising global trade protectionism and rampant unilateralism, the rapid growth of trade between China and Central Asia presents another possibility—a regional cooperation model based on equality, mutual benefit, openness and inclusiveness.
China’s 2025 economic performance demonstrates a successful balance between stability and transformation.
The Hainan FTP underscore China’s determination to advance high-standard opening-up and build the Hainan FTP into an open platform of international influence.
America is tearing apart with its own hands the very post-war order it once helped build, dragging the world back to a jungle era where might makes right.
The deeper implication of Chinese modernization is epistemic. It inspires the Global South to abandon the illusion that history moves along a single track policed by a single civilization.
The U.S. is essentially waging war against the multipolar world, targeting both leading powers of the multipolar world while targeting and dismembering aspiring members of it.
Unchecked desire for power, justified under the guise of security, threatens not just regional peace but the credibility of the entire international system.
The future will depend on the world’s awareness of the persistent danger the U.S.poses, its ability to protect itself from it, and multipolarism’s ability to build the world up faster than the U.S. is demonstrably threatening and destroying it.
A world that accepts unilateral abduction as justice is one where sovereignty is fragile and force persuasive.
Going it alone sounds tough until it means paying more, knowing less, and reacting later.
While our analysis shows the South Korean approach is in part guided by the necessity of better balancing, we must also conclude that Lee appears well-suited to this task, and all the more so because it’s the mature, philosophical value of the party and people he represents.