Kerry Boyd Anderson Americans’ deeply polarized politics are increasingly touching every facet of daily life, leaving many people feeling exhausted and judged. Americans who identify with a strong right-wing or left-wing group at least can retreat into their political tribe, where they know they will find approval for their beliefs and actions. However, moderates feel […]
Read MoreSara Al-Mulla In one of his keynote speeches, former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described the significance of cultural heritage. “Art, literature, music, poetry, architecture — these are the hallmarks of our human existence. They form a common thread that unites all civilizations and cultures, a celebration of our emotional lives and the beauty of our […]
Read MoreDing Gang On January 6, Apple filed a document with the US Securities and Exchange Commission showing that Tim Cook’s total compensation as CEO in 2021 reached $98.7 million. It came after Apple’s market capitalization surpassed $3 trillion during mid-day US stock trading on January 3, making it the world’s highest market capitalization. This amount […]
Read MoreAndrew Korybko The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games will begin on February 4 and are taking place in a completely different international environment than the Beijing Summer Olympics that were held in 2008. Drawing attention to China’s peaceful and mutually beneficial rise to global leadership over the past 14 years can help observers better appreciate […]
Read MoreDr Mohamed Ramady Public awareness of and demand for a better health service are contributing factors to improved healthcare, especially in the era of social media criticisms of the shortcomings of public health. For health practitioners, the adoption of technology can be a blessing in disguise. In times when the delivery of healthcare is under […]
Read MoreMichael Rothman Climate change has been pushed to the forefront in most political arenas, and there is broad agreement that an evolution of energy use is in the long-term interest of our planet’s inhabitants. Who can argue with that? The issue, though like most all human challenges, is less about the desired end-result and more […]
Read MoreYasar Yakis The US State Department two weeks ago sent a document to the Department of International Economic Affairs at the Greek Foreign Ministry. It was about the Eastern Mediterranean (EastMed) gas pipeline project. Greek media was alarmed by its content. The document said that while Washington remained “committed to physically interconnecting the EastMed energy […]
Read MoreDr Theodore karasik Issues related to the aftermath of COVID-19 are tricky because of the many variables determining the speed of the planet’s recovery from the pandemic. The unknowns surrounding the full impact of the global public health emergency, such as on so-called lost generations and the brain drain, are damaging as we try to […]
Read MoreWang Shuo This past weekend, many people in the US and Europe were nervous about the possibility of the “first war of 2022” breaking out on the Russia-Ukraine border. To make things worse, the US Department of State issued a travel warning to Americans, and, the US and some European countries started to supply weaponry […]
Read MoreWang Xiaoquan Soon, the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games will kick off. It was announced on January 14 that Russian President Vladimir Putin is to attend the opening ceremony and hold a meeting on February 4 with Chinese President Xi Jinping. In the past decades, China-Russia relations have been developing rapidly. Now they have been […]
Read MoreDing Gang The online edition of the New York Times published an article written by Alexandra Stevenson on January 6 about the new outbreak of COVID-19 in Xi’an, Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province. The headline of the story reads “China’s Latest Lockdown Shows Stubborn Resolve on Zero-Covid.” One of the keywords is “stubborn”. The dictionary explains […]
Read MoreLü Xiang An old, dusty freight train strewn with graffiti slowly crosses the frame. The camera pans down, and all you can see is trash. Cardboard boxes and shredded packages are scattered all over the place. A video of the scene recently went viral on social media. You might think this happened in some poor […]
Read MoreBaria Alamuddin Boris Johnson has always had a fundamentally problematic relationship with the truth. Lies, cheating and obfuscation ooze from him like water, so it was always predictable that he would ultimately face being brought down by a lie that was too flagrant even for him to get away with. The “Partygate” saga has been […]
Read MoreKerry Boyd Anderson US politics this year will focus on the midterm congressional elections in November. Much of the political debate will center on competing visions of American identity. The US was built on shared ideals and political principles, not on a shared religion, culture, race or ethnicity. It is large and diverse, encompassing varying […]
Read MoreGlobal Times Ukrainian media outlet Obozrevatel published an article arguing China is “not happy with” Russia-led troops arriving in Kazakhstan and has been “hiding its irritation.” Despite how astonishing such rhetoric is, the article went on to say China has a strong tool to make Russians leave Kazakhstan – refusing Russian athletes to participate in […]
Read MoreGlobal Times The US and organizations including NATO will hold a series of emergency meetings with Russia this week, beginning with Monday’s US-Russia meeting in Geneva. Then it moves on to the Russian-NATO Council in Brussels on Wednesday and ends on Thursday’s meeting in Vienna at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). […]
Read MoreDalia Al-Aqidi With the beginning of the new year, members of the Republican and Democratic political parties have begun sharpening their swords in preparation for the US’ 2022 midterm elections. The November vote is considered the most crucial step for both parties as they aim to prove that the outcome of the 2020 presidential election […]
Read MoreDr Theodore Karasik We are now into the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic and many are saying “enough is enough,” sharpening the political divides over public health. But with skyrocketing numbers of cases thanks to the highly infectious omicron variant, there are still many requirements if we are to even begin contending with the […]
Read MoreSara Al-Mulla It is lamentable that after two years we are still battling an insidious COVID-19 pandemic as the virus travels far and wide, constantly mutating, and wreaking havoc across the global community. Nations have been critically tested, having to recalibrate their policies and regulations on a regular basis. With the emergence of the virulent […]
Read MoreAradhana Khowala We began the year with COVID-19 in its full fury and we’re ending it in angst with an incredibly contagious variant. Yet, as we enter 2022, I believe that we can move forward again: More inclusively, more sustainably, more mindfully, and with more well-founded hope than we have felt in the last two […]
Read MoreHu Xijin China, Russia, the US, the UK, and France – the five nuclear-weapon states – issued on Monday a joint statement on preventing nuclear war and avoiding arms races, stressing that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. The five countries underline the avoidance of war between nuclear-weapon states and […]
Read MoreDing Gang The US President Joe Biden signed into law the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act on December 23. There are two key points in this act. First, it shifts the burden of proof to companies from customs officials. Firms will need to proactively prove that their factories, and those of their suppliers, do not […]
Read MoreHu Xijin Sunday marked the 30th anniversary of the disintegration of the Soviet Union. There is no need for the Chinese people to sigh for it. What we should do is drawing lessons from it, because the US very much hopes that China will become the second Soviet Union and fall apart one day. The […]
Read MoreAndrey Kortunov Last week, CNBC published an op-ed piece by Frederick Kempe, President and CEO of the US Atlantic Council. The author, a prominent US analyst and journalist, argues that in 2022 the US will have to focus on confronting the challenges coming from China, Russia and Iran. He suggests that these three nations will […]
Read MoreKerry Boyd Anderson After his inauguration in January, President Joe Biden sought to undo much of former President Donald Trump’s foreign policy. His administration has had some success in that goal, while also facing hurdles. Biden has also sought to reframe geopolitics through a lens of democracies and autocracies — partly in response to China’s […]
Read MoreAs the year comes to a close, the global community faces several daunting challenges beyond an unremitting pandemic now past its second anniversary. North Africa roils from political turmoil and fracturing societies, with exasperated populations distraught at the intransigence of ruling elites but chastened by the fear of uprisings going awry, inviting entities less inclined […]
Read MoreDing Gang A recent eye-catching report in the US media said Shawmut, a US construction management firm, has launched a new N95 mask. The advertisement for this mask is even more concise: “Our N95 mask is made in the USA.” Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the US has imported a large number of […]
Read MoreHu Xijin The German Navy frigate Bayern started to cross the South China Sea on Wednesday with the hype of Western media outlets, emphasizing that this is the first time a German warship has entered the South China Sea in the past 20 years, which was planned to express opposition to China’s territorial claims. Again, […]
Read MoreDalia Al-Aqidi Democratic members of the US House of Representatives passed legislation last week to create a special envoy to combat Islamophobia worldwide. The bill was sponsored by Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, and her Jewish colleague Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a Democrat from Illinois. At first glance, the creation of this position […]
Read MoreMichael Rothman The short answer to the above question is “no.” In point of fact, an assessment of the underlying supply and demand fundamentals suggests that we are in a multiyear up-cycle for the oil market. At the center of this analysis stand two critical data considerations with the first being the stickiness of petroleum […]
Read MoreHu Xijin After reading the notification from China’s Central Economic Work Conference, I am more confident in the country’s economic situation. 2021 has been a difficult year for the entire world. The resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic has to some extent impaired all major economies’ recovery plan. But China has undoubtedly done the best, especially […]
Read MoreDing Gang Washington is in a hurry of late. It has to contain China’s high-tech development on the one hand and is anxious to collect some so-called democratic countries to establish a “democratic front” against China on the other hand. It appears that the China policy of the Biden administration is not much different from […]
Read MoreIshtiaq Ahmad Through last week’s Summit for Democracy, President Joe Biden apparently sought to unite the world to rescue democracy, which is facing a critical crisis. Instead, the online event has set the world apart, with charges that its real intent was to contain China’s rise and seek US hegemony. By excluding almost half of […]
Read MoreYossi Mekelberg Desperate times call for desperate measures; the trick is to ensure that the side effects of the measures taken do not worsen the original predicament. There is now a strong sense of understandable desperation among societies and governments in their wish to see off COVID-19, to the extent that the idea of compulsory […]
Read MoreMartin Jacques There is something more than a little ironic about President Biden’s Summit for Democracy this week. The intention is blindingly obvious: to rally the troops in favour of Western-style democracy and draw a line in the sand between “democracy” (ie, the West) and “autocracy” (ie, China and Russia). In this Biden faces two […]
Read MoreHu Xijin I saw that some people are not confident about China’s holding high the banner of whole-process people’s democracy, but still believe US democracy is the real democracy. The fundamental reason is that past US achievements have helped cover up its ugliness, making the US-led Western countries dominate the definition of democracy and profoundly […]
Read MoreAndrew Hammond US President Joe Biden has made “revitalizing democracy the world over” a key goal of his administration, but it has taken almost a year since his inauguration to fulfil the key pledge of holding a summit of democracies that takes place this week. To be sure, it has been a busy 2021 for […]
Read MoreSinem Cengiz After almost a decade of tense ties, Ankara last month received two high-level Gulf officials: First, Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, and then Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi and de facto ruler of the UAE. The latter’s visit received great attention in the media, which […]
Read MoreDing Gang When Washington set Beijing as the US’ “most serious competitor,” think tankers in the White House failed to anticipate that a domestic problem, lurking under the surface of US society, finally started to erupt. Due to the epidemic, the challenge has come earlier and more fiercely. More and more young Americans do not […]
Read MoreDing Gang Soaring energy prices have led to serious inflation in the US, which shows, once again, that the US’ economic model is still under the traditional framework based on fossil energy. The energy transformation will experience a complicated and long process. The US is the world’s biggest economy, whose global strategy must take into […]
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