The Globalist

The decade that has just ended, the 2010s, was marked by the crisis that began in 2007-08, and it was accompanied by the onset of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

The standoff between the United States and Iran helps China to build out its energy and trade routes throughout the Middle East.

China’s copycatting hunger knows no ideological boundaries: Reflections on the fragility of presumed anti-U.S. alliances.

What “firsts” in economics, politics, technology and demographics occurred in 2010?

The history of dramatic global warming is being repeated.

Czech capital’s mayor stands up to China and positions himself both on principle and in Czech politics.

An updated article collection on everything Hong Kong.

Is a chastened West that has lost its positive edge doomed to cede innovative impulses for global affairs to China?

The people of Hong Kong are fighting a very courageous battle against very long odds. Meanwhile, people in Shanghai live well under a Faustian bargain with the CCP.

Trade brought prosperity to many of the trading sultanates which lined the coast of the archipelago and peninsula.