Chile’s Elites Are Creating Another Latin American Populist Meltdown. Voters Must Stop Them
The main hope for Chile lies with the requirement that voters approve any new constitution.
Axel Kaiser
· 7 min read
World Affairs
A collection of 149 posts
The Coming Post-COVID Global Order
The pandemic crisis is rapidly becoming a civilizational crisis.
Joel Kotkin and Hügo Krüger
· 11 min read
The End of the Islamic Republic of Iran?
The regime is a victim of its own fanaticism, corruption, and incompetence.
Shay Khatiri
· 7 min read
Is China the Governance of the Future?
Jacques is one of the most enthusiastic boosters of China in the West, and his book aims to show that an increasingly dynamic China will soon lay a claim to global hegemony.
John Lloyd
· 15 min read
Four Decades of Terror: Rio de Janeiro’s Never-Ending 'Drug War'
Rio’s futile, endless war will continue. Like going to the beach, or dancing samba, waging war is a way of life in Rio de Janeiro.
Damian Platt
· 16 min read
The China Syndrome Part IV: Did China Fudge its COVID-19 Data?
Hatred of the Chinese regime has become so strong and pervasive in the West—especially in the US, where China is seen as its main geopolitical foe—that it creates incentives that allow unsubstantiated allegations to spread largely unchecked.
Philippe Lemoine
· 26 min read
A Europe Divided and Unfree
Brian Stewart
· 6 min read
The China Syndrome Part III: Wet Markets and BioLabs
In any case, the virus eventually reached Huanan Seafood Market, which served as a springboard from which the virus spread to the rest of Wuhan, and eventually across the entire world.
Philippe Lemoine
· 32 min read
The Crimes of the Red Emperor
Aaron Sarin
· 12 min read
The China Syndrome Part II: Transmission and Response
The human rights record of the Chinese Communist Party provides ample evidence of its capacity for repression and cruelty, and therefore ample opportunities for condemnation.
Philippe Lemoine
· 37 min read
The China Syndrome Part I: Outbreak
Bureaucratic inertia and incompetence are plentiful in China, and not just among local officials, even though apparatchiks in Beijing frequently use them as scapegoats for their own corruption.
Philippe Lemoine
· 30 min read
Lebanon's Malignant State
Some 30 years after the end of its dirty civil war, Lebanon has cultivated a well-developed preference for discretion.
Brian Stewart
· 5 min read
The Russia Report
It is “widely recognised,” says the report, “that Russian intelligence and business are completely intertwined".
John Lloyd
· 13 min read
Chinese Science Fiction's Disaster Dystopias
Rather than the emergence of a China-dominated world order, as some in the West and many in Beijing propose, science fiction writers illuminate realities that could end up reprising the failures of the former Soviet Union.
Joel Kotkin
· 9 min read
Not Dark Yet
In ‘Twilight of Democracy,’ Applebaum offers an overly pessimistic account of Western conservatism’s populist turn.
John Lloyd
· 13 min read