>"After generations of rapid growth, China has swallowed the world economy, and is struggling to avoid being swallowed by it. Its introspective turn is led by the government, but the need is felt by all sorts of people."

Russians suck

"As climate change reshapes our world, more of us will need to move."

"Whether economic times are good or bad, the lament for the old days of factories and mills never changes."

>"For a grand strategy in the 21st century to be worth the paper it’s written on, it needs to incorporate an element of global strategy."

>"President Xi’s vision of “dual circulation” is a darkly pessimistic economic strategy, fit for a new Cold War."

"The failure of a state shakes people to their foundations. Downward mobility has bred a hopelessness that’s sent rates of suicide and alcoholism skyrocketing."

Bizarrely, emissions from global trade do not appear in any nation’s carbon accounting.…in 2007, Britain imported 15,000 tons of chocolate-covered waffles, while exporting 14,000 tons. In 2017, the US both imported and exported nearly 1.5 _...Read More_

The characteristic of the shift over the past half-century is that of a structural change that despite provoking a series of crises, has not been effectively addressed. The result has been a widespread increase in inequality, interlinked _...Read More_