Understanding Europe’s Re-Engagement With China
European leaders increasingly recognize that deep and effective cooperation with China is possible—and necessary—while relations with the U.S. have become harder to forecast.
Mar 4, 2026
The Management of War
Real peace may come not through negotiations, but when empire finally understands that the cost of this war will be far too great for it to bear.
Mar 3, 2026
Berlin’s Economic Future Runs Through China
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Beijing visit this week, where five intergovernmental agreements were signed, signals Berlin’s pragmatic bet that economic survival depends on China.
Feb 28, 2026
Germany Looks to China to Kick-Start Its Economic Recovery
How Berlin navigates this delicate balance between cooperation and competition with Beijing will shape its economic and strategic landscape for years to come.
Feb 28, 2026
What Can Europe Learn from a More Open China?
In an interconnected world, resilience is not found behind thicker walls, but in building more and stronger bridges. For the sake of European prosperity, it is a lesson worth heeding.
Jan 28, 2026
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.
Jan 26, 2026
Has Trump Declared War on Europe?
The only path forward for Europe is to reject subservience; to assert its autonomy; to engage sensibly with China, Russia, Iran and others; and to embrace an emerging multipolar world based on sovereign equality, peaceful cooperation, non-interference and the principles and purposes of the United Nations Charter.
Dec 31, 2025
Can “American Greatness” Be Restored by Alienating Allies and Confronting China?
The 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy, with its isolationist and confrontational approach towards allies and China, is a desperate fiction that undermines genuine American prosperity and security.
Dec 16, 2025
Reading Between the Lines
Consequently, the political and economic traps have been fully exercised from one president to the next, reflecting a deeper logic in U.S. strategic thinking: the logic of hegemony and imperialism.
Dec 15, 2025
Breaking the Zero-Sum Game: Macron in China and Europe’s Bid for Renewal
Europe and China reject decoupling as an economic or civilizational project. They oppose the nihilistic notion that interdependence is a vulnerability rather than an asset.
Dec 4, 2025
China-EU Relations at 50
The fact that differences exist does not mean that the two sides cannot work together. Collaboration is essential for the interests of both sides, and is essential for maintaining stability in the international system.
Dec 3, 2025
The Business of Peace
Most significantly, none of the peace deals brokered by the U.S. actually delivered peace.
Dec 2, 2025